The Triangle Question - Spoilers

Just saw The Triangle and I'm uncertain why she kills herself in the house? Does she think she must to stop the loop? I suppose she's been through this part of the loop before while the viewer hasn't, but I just found this part off. If I saw things correctly, she finally got off the ship with her other selves still on it, so why does she need to kill her other self in the house. I suppose she could kill an extra self she didn't like because she was abusive and there can't be two of her around in her present life anyway but it just seemed inconsistent with previous action.

I thought that maybe she actually kills her son out of anger so she kills herself to save her son, but then the son dying in the crash is not in line with the other people and bird dying in the same way within the loop.

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I think she wants to stop that version of herself as she is bad.

It's been awhile since I've watched the movie, so I'm hazy on some of the details but I do remember the theme.

Thanks, I understood that she was unhappy with her bad self but I just found it strange that she would kill her based on her previous actions--she wasn't a killer per se-and it didn't seem she had to to stop the loop. And I'm not sure the loop was punishment for her abuse (though I do think that's the subtext of the movie: a mother who can't stop the cycle of abuse towards her son though she would like to) but more a refusal to accept her death or that of her son. I also thought that in terms of the subtext the liner could be seen as a symbol for an autistic in that while it functioned it was empty, lacking animation and responsiveness.

Thanks so much for the replies.

I don't know that she is actually killing her in that she is already dead, but maybe a symbolic gesture that she needs to try to kill that part of herself that abuses her son.

Now, you have me wanting to watch it again, so that I can remember more details. If I get a chance to do that soon. I'll get back to you.

I just thought of something else. Jess is trapped in her own version of hell. In order to escape hell, Jess has to change the event that sent her there in the first place, but no matter what she does, the result remains the same. (The ball always rolls down the hill.) If I remember correctly, the loops become more frantic as time progresses.

There is a lot of symbolism in the movie, but, again, I need to rewatch it to remember the details.

It begins to dawn on her that she needs to kill everyone on the boat to get off it, but we also see one of her selves on that boat saying shes sorry she has to kill but she's trying to save her son's life. We only learn later that that self knows that her son dies in the car accident. Movies like this play with your head.

Have you seen the Korean movie Oldboy?

Yes, and I like that movie as well. It's pretty popular on this forum.

I'm going to try to watch Triangle again in the next couple of days. It's been about two years since I have seen it, so not everything is so fresh in my mind. I keep trying to remember some significance about the taxi driver that I have forgotten.

Yup. Check out Jess' house number. And the number of the cabin in the ship where she puts lipstick on mirror.

It's a very good movie. I need to watch it again.

I missed those numbers, ScarletLion. What were they and what do they signify?

Thanks.

As to Oldboy I thought the very end was problematic and maybe it should've ended before that last hypnosis/reunion scene.

I'm pretty sure it's the number 237. Which is the same number of the forbidden room in The Shining. There are lots of other Shining comparisons in the movie.

Also, if anybody has some time on their hands, there is an amazing piece of work around this film here. Click on the chronology and event matrix:

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=e7f87...4E8159D29A!347

I'm watching it tonight. I don't want to click on that link until I watch it again, but I'll certainly check it out after that. I hope other people watch it as well. It's a fun movie to discuss.

Thanks for the link ScarletLion. I also read the following: "According to the commentary, the killer wearing a sack as a mask is a Shout Out to Friday the 13th Part 2, in which Jason Voorhees wears a pillow case over his head prior to the iconic hockey mask" from tvtropes.

So I just watched again so here are some random thoughts. Firstly, I don't think there is a "good" or "bad" Jess. They are all Jess in various stages of the loop. It's significant that she keeps saying, "That's not me" in regards to the Jess in the loop who is killing everyone. She also tells her son something to the affect that she got rid of bad mommy and she is the nice one. I think this is just illustrating Jess's dual nature and her refusal to accept what she did.

When they are still on the Triangle she tells Greg that her son doesn't like change and when she changes something she loses him. I'm wondering if this is just foreshadowing or if it means something more. We know that the end result is that she can't change anything and therefore can't save him, but she says when she does change something she loses him. That confused me a bit.

When the group boards the Aeolus and then discusses Sisyphus's punishment it's said that he either tried to cheat death or make a deal with death. At the end we see Jess talking to the cab driver and he says that there is no point trying to save her son. She insists on going to the harbor suggesting that she tries to cheat death and this begins her loopy punishment.

I'm glad I watched it again. I hadn't forgotten as much as I thought, but it's much clearer now.

I just realized an inconsistency in the movie:

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Not sure about the keys, would have to look again, maybe someone else can chime in. As to her memory

Do we have to use spoiler tags if there are spoiler warnings in the thread title?

LOL Good point about spoilers. Forgot I titled it that way.

I still think it makes no sense that there's only one dead Jess in the trunk yet many other multiple things especially dead seagulls being the gulls are just before the accident.

Not sure what the other people symbolize if anything although I think they're primarily used to forward the plot and to scare and unsettle when they're killed.

What I wondered from the beginning is why that one woman dies in the storm. (I think it's the woman they bring on board as a possible date for the yacht owner.) Why doesn't she survive and what does that signify? I mean, she could easily have lived, gone onto the liner with the rest and the plot would be the same. Maybe something was edited out of the final cut?