Cruise of Terror – The Truth of the Infinite Loop

Today, Douban Sauce came to recommend a movie "Horror Cruise" for everyone.

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Spoilers are involved below, so be sure to watch the movie or choose not to watch the movie at all before continuing.

To understand the meaning of "Horror Cruise", you must know the background of the movie. This premise will help us understand what kind of story "Horror Cruise" wants to tell.

Esthos is the name of the ship, the wind god of Greek mythology and the father of Sisyphus (Sisyphus). Sisyphus was a figure in Greek mythology who even kidnapped death at one point, leaving the world without death. Finally, Sisyphus offended the gods, and the gods, in order to punish Sisyphus, demanded that he push a boulder up to the top of the mountain, and because the boulder was so heavy that he rolled down the mountain every time he did not reach the top of the mountain, and his previous efforts were abandoned, so he repeated and never stopped doing this—and the gods thought that there was no more severe punishment than to carry out such ineffective and hopeless labor. Sisyphus's life was slowly exhausted in such an ineffective and hopeless labor. (The paragraph is from Baidu)

The heroine Jesse is equivalent to Sisyphus in Greek mythology, and the ship she goes on is equivalent to the mountain that trapped Sisyphus. And the driver of the taxi she was riding in was Death, the ferryman from one shore to the other side of the Western world.

Death says that no one can stop Death from taking the child away, and asks jesse, the heroine, if she needs me to give you a ride? The heroine's answer was "Yes". Later, the heroine Jesse promised the taxi driver, the grim reaper, that she would go back, but her choice was to set foot on the Ethiopian every time.

So the cycle that the heroine Jesse is caught in is set by death. The cycle will only end when she keeps her promise. But it is impossible for the heroine to keep her promise, because she must save her child, that is, it is impossible for the heroine to escape this cycle.

The film is an illusion of Jesse's soul, and the real Jesse died the first time he left the house, including her children. So Jesse will make a deal with Death to save his child. But every time they come home, they get into a car accident on that road. It's an endless cycle.

The previous article is about the explanation of the heroine's falling into a cycle, and the latter article is about the analysis of the dead loop of "Horror Cruise".

The cycle of "Horror Cruises" has roughly two views, the first is that Jesse's going to sea - getting on the boat - jumping into the sea - going home - going out to sea is a perfect cycle.

The second view is that Jesse's two cruises are a complete cycle.

Personally, I think it is the first one that is more self-explanatory. Because Jesse had said she had come to the ship since she got on the ship, we could think for the time being. The dream Jesse had before she got on the boat made her forget the previous cycle, and Jesse had no memory when he got on the boat. We can also see this from Jesse's performance in the first round.

And Jesse has roughly two ways of looping on the ship, according to the audience's first round of seeing the record as A, the second round of the snatched finger is recorded as B, the cycle on the ship is roughly ABABABAB... Mode.

The cycle on board is somewhat complicated because there are cases where there are several Jesse at the same time. But they always have only two situations, that is, the A and A with the gun pointed at B from the audience's perspective. It's just that there are multiple A's and B's because there are several rounds of A's and B's on board.

As long as you distinguish A and B, the whole movie is easy to understand. Today, Douban Sauce came to recommend a movie "Horror Cruise" for everyone.

As long as you distinguish A and B, the whole movie is easy to understand.