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There's a potential missing loop(spoilers)

posted 8 years ago by draw013
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So in the movie it seems there's a perfect loop from beginning to end, but at one point in the movie, Jess gets grazed by a bullet in the head and stabs downey and grace, and later we see her fighting herself one on one without masks. Do you suppose maybe she gets out of the loop?

I was surprised by this movie. I heard about it by chance, but it's one of the best horror/thrillers I've seen. Even when you are shown that it's a loop and think you know what's coming it still twists and turns on you. Not to mention when I thought the movie was over it kept going for another 10 minutes, and in doing so, demanded another viewing from me.

[–] Spike_the_Cactus 8 years ago

The way I interpreted it was that the Jess that has the gun pointed at her goes on to become mean Jess. After the gun is pointed at her we see her again, killing gunshot wound Jess by hacking her to death and pushing her body overboard. I believe those events (having 'our' Jess point a gun at her, then killing gunshot wound Jess) cause her to become the mean version of Jess.

This means she also gets hacked to death by a later version of Jess (one who also has a gun pointed at her).

Our Jess always ends up fighting an identical version of herself (one who follows the same plot as our Jess - I.e, she points a gun at another version of Jess, never gets shot in the head, and falls overboard whilst wearing the mask).

The version of Jess who has the gun pointed at herself always fights and kills an unmasked version of herself, always stabs two of her friends, and always gets shot in the head.

For me it's just those two time lines that take place onboard the ship, but overlapping so that at any one time there are three versions of Jess onboard (either two good Jess's and one mean Jess, or two mean Jess's and one good Jess). The combination changes throughout the film as the story progresses.

So in that interpretation mean Jess always dies by being killed by a version of herself that goes on to become mean Jess, and 'good Jess' always forces a later version of herself overboard, but doesn't kill her. Neither of the two time lines offer a way out of the loop.

[–] none-50-631251 8 years ago

I also thought theres at least one missing loop.

The main Jess of the story (ONE THAT NEVER PURPOSELY KILLED ANYONE) was no longer shown after she got confident and said she could save everyone.

The main jess witnessed another jess kill a mask wearing jess. THATS the jess we see put on the mask, try to kill everyone, and later gets into the car crash.

Then standing over the wreck is another mysterious jess (wearing jacket, the main jess gave jacket to dying girl) she was one that probably didnt get to save everyone and has to re-enter the loop.

[–] Warrior_Poet 8 years ago

You're correct there's a loop pattern we don't see as much of, but we see more if it than you may realize. A lot of material here, but this may help fill in the some blanks (check out the Event Matrix spreadsheet that can be downloaded from the second link):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/board/thread/223982092
http://sdrv.ms/MoXetr
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