I have watched this movie twice now trying to understand the purpose of the cable slashing in the beginning. If he was going to take their souls it would be better to take them while they were living one by one. Is that what he did to the little girl who did not get slashed into? :smack:
The cable was not put there by the bad guy, demon, whatever. It was done by the conspirators who wanted to take the ship and steal the gold. They gave themselves an advantage of numbers by killing most of the crew on deck. All of the people whom the demon managed to get killed sinned in some major way before their death.
Yeah, I don’t even think he cared about the passengers-just the greedy crew.
Remember?
The crew poisoned the soup, too. Then, after they killed all of the passengers, he and Franceska killed the crew, and then HE killed Franceska.
He got everybody killed on the ship, sinner or not. The little girl said the sinner’s were easier to control, but that was about the only difference between them I saw/remember. I thought it would’ve made more sense if the only ones trapped were the ones he seduced into evil. I’m guessing it was only the “good” souls we saw ascending at the the end.
[spoiler]In his review of Ghost Ship, Roger Ebert wrote:
“The mystery eventually yields an explanation, if not a solution, and there is the obligatory twist in the last shot, which encourages us to reinterpret everything in diabolical terms and to think hard about the meanings of certain names.”
(http://suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2002/10/102506.html)
I saw the movie but I didn’t get that. What really happened in the end? What meaning of what names? If you please… [/spoiler]
Just watched this and remembered a thread. I had some questions too.
Grousser, the name “Ferryman” jumped out when the guy first introduced himself. It’s spelled Ferriman in the credits, but that’s okay.
Santos – saint?
Greer, Munder, Murphy – nothing pops to mind with those.
I think Ferryman is the key to Ebert’s comment about the names.
I liked the movie. Sorta like Stephen King’s Overlook Hotel from the Shining, only it floats.