Triangle

 

Okay I just watched this movie. I hate the tagline on this image, but I couldn't find a better image, so whatever. I shall split my discussion into two parts. The loops within the cruise and the ending discussion. I will try my very best, not to confuse myself at the very least. To figure this out, I had to draw the timeline multiple times to explain it to myself. Unfortunately, its too ugly for me to post it here. I hope you understand a timeline explanation in words. Good luck!

So, at any one time, there are actually three versions of Jess. I shall categorize them as - Newcomer, Remainder, and Fail-safe (the one with the mask). So here it goes. Every time a newcomer comes, the newcomer kills the failsafe. Then, shift all roles. There is a new newcomer, and previous newcomer becomes a remainder, and the previous remainder becomes the new failsafe. 

The remainder is always the one who is watching the battle between the newcomer and the failsafe and the remainder has a choice to intervene. If the remainder intervenes in the ballroom, the murders turns out to be the one in the room (where Jess stabs them vigorously). If the remainder does not, the murders are the one in the theater (the one where shotguns are used). Whatever the choice the remainder makes, the failsafe realizes that the only choice there is, is to kill the others and die by the new Jess' hands, in order to escape the ship. So the remainder's choice is irrelevant. That's why I named it failsafe, coz the murders will still take place. Two possibilities, with the same end. 

Now when the failsafe dies, she comes off the island, and runs back home (wow, cool). She then sees the violent version of herself, abusing the son verbally and physically. I shall label them as Dress and Cardigan (Because the violent-self was wearing a dress and the escapee was wearing a cardigan). Cardigan kills Dress, then she wraps Dress in a bag, and takes the son along in the car, to the Triangle (after looking at the note on the fridge, like in the beginning of the movie). Along the way, Cardigan hits a bird (its possible to kill a bird while driving, I've done it). The son starts freaking out and Cardigan promises to bury the bird. When she takes the bird off the road to dump it at the side, she sees plenty of other dead birds there - which means even this has happened many times. After that, the son is still freaking out due to the blood on the windscreen, and due to the distraction from the son, they collide with an oncoming bus. 

This is where is gets really confusing. The crowd attends to the Dress, and her son, but Cardigan is only seen talking to a cab driver that asks whether she needs a ride. She then says she needs to go to the harbour. The big question now is, is Cardigan alive or dead after the accident? Is she really there? 

My take on the ending is, Cardigan is real once she makes it off the Triangle. This is proven by physical proof such as she is able to ring the doorbell and interact with her son. Also, there are many dead birds at the side of the road, indicating its real and it has happened many times. Unfortunately, Dress or Cardigan you can't cheat death, as suggested by the quick philosophy discussion they were having about the ship's name, Aeolus. You can go look up the Greek mythology behind it, because I'm not going to. Cardigan is only real within the time span of after escaping Triangle and before the car-bus collision. That's why nobody attended to her except the afterlife-like cab-driver. She then tries to cheat death and save her son by going on Triangle, to return back in time. Unfortunately, she and her son is dead, and there is nothing anyone can do about it, just like the cab-driver told her. 

For the limbo to start, there is a version where there is only Dress and her son in the car, and they meet with an accident for the first time. If you want, you could go back to the side of the road and calculate how many birds where there at the side - that would give you the number of times her soul has looped back in time, killed her violent self, tries to run off with her son - only to meet with the same accident again. Life sucks.

The only bit of a problem - If she got onto Triangle with her memory intact, at which point did she forget it in order to experience a déjà vu instead of a real memory? Because if she is going on Triangle for the sole purpose of traveling back in time, she shouldn't be so shocked when she saw the storm coming. To let my mind at peace, I'm just going to assume she lost her memory while sleeping in Triangle (the part where Heather comes to offer her champagne), because after that she wakes up all blur. All time travel movies have problems, because they aren't suppose to exist. Reality stand on logic, if time travel exists, reality will disintegrate. Leaving the physics aside, this is just a sad story of a mother trying her best to take care of her son (maybe autistic). She is obviously frustrated with her life. She then meets with an accident, and spends her eternity coming back to save his life, to no avail. I enjoyed this movie! Especially in trying to figure out the loops. See ya!