This is uncle bird's first film commentary in totiao
I have seen it many times, it is very brain-burning, there is a feeling of unconsciousness, for a mortal with a mediocre IQ like Uncle Bird, sometimes it is very circumvented, and it is difficult to understand the movie, which often becomes an obsession, must be understood, to understand.
So, Uncle Bird brushed countless times
<h1>Terror Cruise Triangle (2009</h1>).
Directed By: Christopher Smith
Writers: Christopher Smith
Starring: Melissa George / Liam Hemsworth / Michael Dorman / Rachel Cappany / Emma Lang / more...
Genre: Drama / Suspense / Thriller
Country/Region of Production: United Kingdom / Australia
Language: English
Release: 2009-10-16 (UK)
Runtime: 99 min
Also known as: Wang Yang Blood Labyrinth (Taiwan) / Reincarnation Triangle / Triangle / Lost Delta
Movie posters
Let's get down to business
Let's briefly review this excellent brain-burning suspense work
The story is about a single mother Jessie and a group of friends out to play, in the sea encountered a storm, yacht overturned, everyone fell into the water, waiting for rescue, encountered a large cruise ship, excited to board the ship, found that the cruise ship is empty, on the cruise ship looking for crew passengers, Jessie's companions were killed by a mysterious hooded person one by one, and everyone said that the hooded person is Jessie, after a round of terrible pursuit, Jessie finally pushed the mysterious person down to the sea
Strange things happened, Jessie saw that in the sea, there was a capsized boat, there were 5 people on the boat, it was just now himself and his friends who should have been dead, boarded the ship again, experienced a round of crazy killing again, and the same time, after the other companions were killed, the last survived, only the second Jessie who boarded the ship, and there was The first time Jessie boarded the ship, the two Jessie on the different decks, once again saw the sea in the distance, There was a capsized boat and 5 people on board again, and the cycle of the third boarding of the ship began again...
USS Aeolos
Seemingly simple a cycle of killing, "Horror Cruise" tells much more than that
In order to prevent everyone from getting dizzy, Uncle Bird categorizes the heroines who appear in the film according to the development of the plot and the inner changes (according to the perspective presented in the film):
In the first cycle, Jessie, although she knows nothing about what is going to happen, has a deep subconscious in her heart
Called: Jessie (victim)
victim
In the second loop, Jessie (the victim) of the previous loop tries to prevent her friends from being killed because she had her first experience
Called: Jessie (The Savior)
Savior
In the third cycle, Jessie (the savior) in the previous cycle, because of the previous two experiences, thinks that she has found a pattern, and thinks that if it is too late to save her friends, as long as they are killed, they can start over, they can be resurrected, so they begin to become murderers
Called: Jessie (The Slayer)
Slaughterers
The flower dress Jessie, who appears at home and is hammered to death by Jessie (the Slayer), does not participate in the plot of the story, and is more similar to the props
Called: Flower Skirt Jessie
Flower skirt
According to the angle of the film shooting, it is easier to understand,
In the first loop, Jessie (the victim) who has just boarded the boat knows nothing, and the friends on the ship are killed by the mysterious hooded person who is actually Jessie (the slayer) who stayed on the boat in the previous cycle, and at the end of the cycle, the hooded person Jessie (the slayer) is shot into the sea
The first small loop
In the second cycle, Jessie (the savior) who changed her mentality began to save her friends, shot and injured the hooded person, but in the end she failed to save anyone, at the end of the cycle, looking at the deck below, the second cycle of Jessie and another Jessie fighting, in fact, it was left in several different cycles, Jessie (the victim) and Jessie (the slayer) fought, and finally Jessie (the slayer) did not wear the hood and was cut off, and was pushed into the sea
Second small cycle
In the third cycle, Jessie (the savior) who has changed her mentality again becomes Jessie (the slayer), and when the cycle starts again, she does not have time to stop her friends from boarding the ship, so she decides to resurrect them by killing them and repeating the cycle, this time, she is the killer with the hood, after killing all her friends, she is shot into the sea by Jessie (the victim) who boarded the ship this time, just like the first time she knocked the hooded person into the sea
After falling into the sea, Jessie (the slayer), who woke up on the beach, ran back home, thinking that the cycle was over, and after hammering Jessie in the flower skirt, ran away with her son, encountered a car accident, and Death took her to the dock and got on the boat to set off
The third small cycle and the first large cycle
A full loop ends, but is the loop of the story really as we've seen, three small loops on board, and then another departure to the dock to complete a big loop?
If it's that simple, how to explain, jessie (the slayer) who fell into the sea during the first small cycle wore a hood and was not injured
In the second mini-loop, Jessie (the Savior) injures Jessie (the hooded Jay (the Slayer) who wears a hood, and at the end of the cycle, she sees Jessie (the hoodless hooded) on the deck below being pushed off the sea, and the different ways of dying from her friends in the first and second loops!
The answer is actually in the key restaurant, we can see that in the loop, Jessie (the victim) did not meet any other Jessie in the restaurant for the first time, and in the second time in the restaurant, as an upgraded Jessie (the savior) met Jessie (the victim), that is to say, in the restaurant, whether the two Jessy met, it will directly produce a different branch of the cycle, the choice of where the victim and the savior go
They will not choose to appear in the theater at the same time
Otherwise the loop cannot continue
Choose 1 victim to go to the theater
The Slayer kills the shirted man and the brown-haired woman in the theater
Then hunt down the victims
Eventually, he was thrown into the sea with a hood
Choose 2 Saviors to go to the theater
Wound the slayer
The slayer killed the shirted man and stabbed the brown-haired woman in Room 237
In the end, the no-lead cover was hacked to death and thrown into the sea
This random choice does not affect the final loop
Because the end result is that the murderer falls into the sea
Then wake up on the beach
Go home and pick up your son
Then there was a car accident
Death appears and takes her to the docks
Interestingly, in the story, no matter how the loop continues
There is always a point that clears Jessie of all the previous recurring memories
Remember the dream Jessie had while asleep in the boat?
When she woke up, she couldn't remember anything but this scene
There is also a view on the Internet that Jessie (the slayer) who fell into the water in a hood was a cruise ship with memories after re-setting off from the dock.
Uncle Bird doesn't quite agree with this view, if Jessie who boards the cruise ship carries her previous memories, then the whole cycle will be destroyed
Because in the cycle of this story, there can only be three Jessie on the ship, representing three Jessie with different psychological states of experience, if the cruise ship carries the memory, then the victim is gone, there are only two killers and one savior, then who will shoot the killer into the sea, who will upgrade to become the next round of saviors? No one fell into the water, so where did the new victims come from?
As for why Jessie fell into such a cycle, I believe that friends who have watched the film must also know, and the bird said not much
But what really put Jessie in this reincarnation purgatory was not just her breaking her promise to death, but the obsession in her heart
Jessie's purgatory is cruel and tragic
In Purgatory,
She experiences physical injuries: hand-to-hand combat, flooding, shootings, car accidents
Spiritual damage: suspicion and distrust of friends, friends and lovers dying in front of their eyes, killing lovers and friends with their own hands, witnessing their own roughness to their sons, the most painful loss of their sons, and finally killing themselves with their own hands and being killed by their own hands!
Everyone may think that death is really cruel, creating such a reincarnation purgatory
The myths of Sisyphus, the piles and corpses, the self-healing, the 237 room, the driver, all these are all constant reminders to Jessie that this is not the real world and should be put down and left.
It was Jessie herself who had chosen to continue the cycle of reincarnation, chasing her deceased son.
On the cruise ship, she can skip killing, jump into the sea, and go straight home.
At home, she can also not kill, forgive and forgive the unbearable self, and there will be no car accident.
If she could have forgiveness and compassion, she would naturally escape from this world of reincarnation.
But she is paranoid about the conclusion that killing can only be saved, paranoid about this unreal world, paranoid about chasing her illusory son
The outcome of each reincarnation was chosen by Jessie herself
What really created this killing cycle of purgatory was not death, but Jessie's own obsession.
And when can we, who are paranoid, let go of our obsessions?
I don't know if you think Uncle Bird's analysis is simple enough?
After all, for a mortal like Uncle Bird, being able to interpret such a high-IQ suspense film is also exhausting.
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