The whole movie is basically an example of the Sisyphus cheating death story that was mentioned by one of the characters earlier in the movie when they are just boarding the ship. Rolling a rock up a hill just for it to come tumbling back down again. We have Jess stuck in a similar loop that always ends in the same way no matter how she goes about it. I rated the movie a seven solely because of the plot holes being captured halfway through the movie. We come to realize that there around three Jess' running around at any giving time. One is usually getting on the boat, another has just knocked off the hooded Jess into the ocean, and the third is kind of observing both acts and has to make decisions in order to conclude the cycle somehow.
From the first time we see Jess come aboard, viewers get to witness both cycles of Jess' decisions as that second Jess. She sometimes chooses to save a character or two and sometimes she doesn't get the chance to. That decision changes Jess #3 in the loop into either a crazy throat slashing Jess or quickly into the masked Jess out for murder in order to see her son.
My explanation into why the story plays out this way goes like this: Jess was in a wreck that killed both her son and her. She gets the opportunity to cross over after her death but chooses to embark on a loop that ultimately allows her to hold her son once more AND teach her former abusive self a lesson. The character playing Death, the cab driver, approaches her after every concluded loop to basically ask her if she is ready to cross over or make the decision to start the loop over again. Death asks her to come back as he "keeps the meter running" but Jess always chooses to regain the loop. My guess is the memory wipe starts as soon as she passes through the entryway to the marina and where she bumps in to Victor for the first time. She doesn't seem to remember Victor which is why I think it all begins again at that point.
Throughout the movie we notice a lot of inconsistencies but the movie still holds strong in a way that leaves your mind going nuts with anticipation. I can not seem to get over the fact that a lot of objects show themselves as multiples in this story (dead bodies stacking up, seagull carcasses, Jess' neckless, etc) but why aren't other things disappearing or being used up as the loops continue? Shotguns, ammunition, the jumpsuit just seem to restock by themselves. The room's mirror seems to wipe clean just so she can write on it again in blood. The bodies she disposes of scene to scene but other things seem to reset on their own. The ending of the movie is also a mystery. It is obvious the movie resets back to the beginning but how are there seagull carcasses being piled up over time but no wrecked cars or the bodies of Jess and her son? Just some interesting things to think about. I apologize to go into so much detail but movies like this get my brain turning. If you think like me you would catch the Sisyphus correlation quite early on ;)
From the first time we see Jess come aboard, viewers get to witness both cycles of Jess' decisions as that second Jess. She sometimes chooses to save a character or two and sometimes she doesn't get the chance to. That decision changes Jess #3 in the loop into either a crazy throat slashing Jess or quickly into the masked Jess out for murder in order to see her son.
My explanation into why the story plays out this way goes like this: Jess was in a wreck that killed both her son and her. She gets the opportunity to cross over after her death but chooses to embark on a loop that ultimately allows her to hold her son once more AND teach her former abusive self a lesson. The character playing Death, the cab driver, approaches her after every concluded loop to basically ask her if she is ready to cross over or make the decision to start the loop over again. Death asks her to come back as he "keeps the meter running" but Jess always chooses to regain the loop. My guess is the memory wipe starts as soon as she passes through the entryway to the marina and where she bumps in to Victor for the first time. She doesn't seem to remember Victor which is why I think it all begins again at that point.
Throughout the movie we notice a lot of inconsistencies but the movie still holds strong in a way that leaves your mind going nuts with anticipation. I can not seem to get over the fact that a lot of objects show themselves as multiples in this story (dead bodies stacking up, seagull carcasses, Jess' neckless, etc) but why aren't other things disappearing or being used up as the loops continue? Shotguns, ammunition, the jumpsuit just seem to restock by themselves. The room's mirror seems to wipe clean just so she can write on it again in blood. The bodies she disposes of scene to scene but other things seem to reset on their own. The ending of the movie is also a mystery. It is obvious the movie resets back to the beginning but how are there seagull carcasses being piled up over time but no wrecked cars or the bodies of Jess and her son? Just some interesting things to think about. I apologize to go into so much detail but movies like this get my brain turning. If you think like me you would catch the Sisyphus correlation quite early on ;)