tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post6321507752361824583..comments2024-03-11T18:31:52.988-05:00Comments on Jay's Movie Blog: TriangleJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08878262302237069963noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-88068575184942995812014-12-05T06:32:18.765-05:002014-12-05T06:32:18.765-05:00This will help understanding the three Jess situat...This will help understanding the three Jess situation across the plot:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://digestivepyrotechnics.blogspot.com/2014/12/triangle-explained-plot-holes-explained.html" rel="nofollow">http://digestivepyrotechnics.blogspot.com/2014/12/triangle-explained-plot-holes-explained.html</a>Tivepnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-5381027020453558162014-08-27T22:31:28.632-05:002014-08-27T22:31:28.632-05:00I have to say that I absolutely loved this movie. ...I have to say that I absolutely loved this movie. I loved that it left so many questions unanswered. Things that I noticed were that there are 3-4 Jess' on the ocean liner at one time. There is the Jess that we begin the movie with. Second is a more evil or calculating seeming Jess that kills Downey and Sally without a second thought. The third is the future version of the Jess we know; she Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-91614324400216408502014-06-23T16:16:13.013-05:002014-06-23T16:16:13.013-05:00Ok, extra theory: the movie is about the Greek myt...Ok, extra theory: the movie is about the Greek myth like 100%. She will repeat the punishment (killing her companions/friends) as long as she thinks she is smarter/quicker/better then death (the cab driver ... somehow). <br />Redemption will only come if she does not go on the yacht but goes back to the cab fulfilling her promise. That is how she accepts the fact that her son died and she was a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-20766261889309114142014-03-19T11:22:44.545-05:002014-03-19T11:22:44.545-05:00The first time I watched this movie my thoughts we...The first time I watched this movie my thoughts were that she had murdered her son and she was continually trying to save him from herself. For me, this explanation addresses the single set of keys on the ship. <br /><br />The second time I watched this movie my interpretation shifted into the belief that they both had been killed in the car accident. For me, this explanation addresses the akhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11981357568358584899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-15052538001368248752014-03-08T13:27:56.030-05:002014-03-08T13:27:56.030-05:00This movie makes my head hurt but in a wonderful w...This movie makes my head hurt but in a wonderful way. Not exactly knowing is the genius of it all and everyone having their own opinion is fun. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-89098656136365886832013-07-02T03:39:21.678-05:002013-07-02T03:39:21.678-05:00ok as i'm not a genius pls help me out here: w...ok as i'm not a genius pls help me out here: why is Jess 3x on the ship at the same time ? when she's at the deck full of Sally corpses she watches another Jess clubbing yet another Jess (who gets thrown overboard). i can deal with 2 Jess's at the same time but not with 3. ANYONE ?Geniusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-35712917142080729142012-11-04T01:02:09.205-05:002012-11-04T01:02:09.205-05:00not sure about the killing her son at home idea,if...not sure about the killing her son at home idea,if this was true then wouldn't she see the black bag where the seagulls are dumped after 1 hits her car where she supposedly dumps the body?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-14681636813178899122012-09-02T23:45:36.395-05:002012-09-02T23:45:36.395-05:00I agree with Danisans. She killed her son and put ...I agree with Danisans. She killed her son and put him in the bag and dumped him at the harbor. I thought that the rest was similar to Shutter Island and that the other people were psychiatrists trying to help her remember what happened and take responsibility for killing her son.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-74586512172526907592012-07-28T21:44:06.495-05:002012-07-28T21:44:06.495-05:00oops! didn't mean to put it as a reply comment...oops! didn't mean to put it as a reply comment...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-85488005487455271742012-07-28T21:42:12.371-05:002012-07-28T21:42:12.371-05:00A great movie! had me thinking for hours afterward...A great movie! had me thinking for hours afterwards. Very emotional, her guilt is so strong she's stuck in this punishment, unconciously denying throughout the whole movie that she is guilty of the horrific murder of her son. What i think happens and others have put it together more clear and extensively is that she kills him at home, cleans up the blood that later on changes into paint, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-35632992571683790532012-05-06T23:40:45.894-05:002012-05-06T23:40:45.894-05:00Deju vu is not the same as a time loop so therfore...Deju vu is not the same as a time loop so therfore she wasnt experiencing that, you dont experience deju vu over and over and not all the time.Do research writers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-71497140493605058422012-05-06T23:38:19.550-05:002012-05-06T23:38:19.550-05:00i liked the movie, melissa george was great, for o...i liked the movie, melissa george was great, for once, but it was over the top confusing and thats a turn off to me as a smart veiwer. i wouldnt classify this as a horror film either, it was a thriller if that, the confusion was a turn off for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-23425338322038563302012-03-27T21:14:36.290-05:002012-03-27T21:14:36.290-05:00So that’s why she is stuck in the Sisyphus loop. T...So that’s why she is stuck in the Sisyphus loop. The relive the pain of her son’s murder by giving her the belief that she can change things, make things right again. That seems more of a punishment that fits the crime. Suffering for eternity the myth of Sisyphus because she was distracted for a minute and caused the death of her son in a car accident seems unjust. <br />Now what happens on the danisansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-39125260176757966212012-03-27T20:30:38.776-05:002012-03-27T20:30:38.776-05:00Since the boy spills the paint because he sees ano...Since the boy spills the paint because he sees another version of his mom in the window, the paint is probably never spilled that morning and it becomes instead a metaphor for the blood that would have been on Jess’ dress after she killed her son. Explains why she would pack a stained dress. She was in fact putting the blood stained dress on top of her body’s son in that black bag (that she was danisansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-42146160618023575602012-03-27T19:55:19.134-05:002012-03-27T19:55:19.134-05:008:17 is something that is often brought up as a cl...8:17 is something that is often brought up as a clue in the movie. For me, that 8:17 stoppage of the clocks is significant in that it points to the fact that Jess probably <b>murdered her son</b>. She saw the date with the good looking man with a sail boat as freedom from her life of misery raising an autistic child by herself and finally lost it as it became apparent that Tommy was going to ruindanisansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-66175279836943166422012-03-15T22:03:12.714-05:002012-03-15T22:03:12.714-05:00This movie is what hell and heaven would be like i...This movie is what hell and heaven would be like if the event was just be played over and over again from one view. This incident has placed her in hell because of her treatment of her son. If she hadn't killed anyone prior to dieing in the car accident, then she wouldn't be experiencing the hell of repeatedly killing people. But the hell incidents are repeated over and over until, Mary Elizabeth Winstead Fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15314472111207163864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-84351950509453214512012-03-15T21:39:39.432-05:002012-03-15T21:39:39.432-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mary Elizabeth Winstead Fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15314472111207163864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-19940203574082165272012-02-23T08:20:46.043-05:002012-02-23T08:20:46.043-05:00Just to add to the above comment, the Jess getting...Just to add to the above comment, the Jess getting on the cab after the accident should be a ghost or sth, starting the loop all out of the guilt that she got her son killed. She is totally unharmed by the accident and nobody else notices her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-78567372984932705662012-02-23T08:16:21.171-05:002012-02-23T08:16:21.171-05:00Okay, I took a close look at the last scene where ...Okay, I took a close look at the last scene where the car accident happens. The watch on the man who's taking care of the dead Tommy reads something like 8:17. You'll recall that the clock on the ship and Jess' watch read 8:17. I think this means the moment the car accident happened, this eternal loop started, and the driver wasn't the Jess we saw the whole time in the movie, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-65553069764402854162011-12-06T11:49:44.109-05:002011-12-06T11:49:44.109-05:00Guys, my previous 3 comments are not my own though...Guys, my previous 3 comments are not my own thoughts. They are the words of shanghai21 from the unexplained-mysteries.com forum. After watching Triangle for the second time I found that site, and this comment helped me put into words what I had already had in my mind concerning this movie.<br />I think Triangle is a powerful movie, is definitely in my TOP 10 list.Zolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16772160601158974939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-27773827332120514892011-12-06T11:46:04.114-05:002011-12-06T11:46:04.114-05:00I think this is what the writer was getting it. My...I think this is what the writer was getting it. My only complaint is that the actress should have been more anguished (less dazed) as she stared at the car accident - and the "driver" who showed up could have been a bit more sadistically encouraging. But again, that depends on whether you read it as some sort of hell, or some sort of purgatory. To be honest, the whole process seems likeZolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16772160601158974939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-84706983810027020862011-12-06T11:45:27.290-05:002011-12-06T11:45:27.290-05:00In this sense, the movie is just a post-traumatic,...In this sense, the movie is just a post-traumatic, infinitely repeating, emotional cycle. If you can imagine how a woman who beat her son (and resented him in the very moments before she caused his death, for making her late, but also in a deeper sense for keeping her from really being able to go sail away with this handsome customer unencumbered) might be punished in a Greek-mythological versionZolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16772160601158974939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-16807967792883553722011-12-06T11:44:30.687-05:002011-12-06T11:44:30.687-05:00I think it is actually a very profound movie. The ...I think it is actually a very profound movie. The logic is emotional in nature though, and so the viewer has to be able to recognize torment. Ultimately, that is all the movie is about - eternal torment - hence the Sisyphus reference.<br /><br />The way I see the story is as follows:<br />There is a single mother with an autistic son. She resents her son on some level for making her life Zolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16772160601158974939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-47193662284527302762011-09-24T17:24:29.424-05:002011-09-24T17:24:29.424-05:00I heard the story about King Aeolus, but I can'...I heard the story about King Aeolus, but I can't remember the details. I know that he died, then he asked Death if he could come back and tell his wife to make a decent funeral for him. Death asks if he promises to come back, and he promises. Rather than keeping his promise, he hides, and Death finds him later on, bringing him back to the Underworld. His punishment for breaking his promise Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486258.post-7993138892568387322011-09-14T22:24:12.827-05:002011-09-14T22:24:12.827-05:00The gramaphone is playing the same music that the ...The gramaphone is playing the same music that the band plays at the end. And my opinion is kind of the same. The taxi driver is death. However, I think the bloody headed Jess is not as significant as you would think. There were three different Jesses during the story. There was ignorant jess, the jess who trys to change the pattern, and then the jess who becomes the killer. I found this story Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com