My brain felt fried after trying to make sense of those two films.
shareThe Reeds kinda doesn't really have a true 'explanation' from my memory.. it's just a place where reality is thin.. something like that. 'Triangle'... I mean it's kind of what you see is what you get. Time loops overlapping, etc. Complex, yes, but I don't see how it doesn't become clear by the end.
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The loop in triangle never happened - she died in a car accident and uses the last few things/people she sees in a death dream about a time loop before she passes. Triangle makes sense in the end if you watch it closely. Don't remember enough about the reeds to comment, but I remember it being pretty close to a triangle knockoff.
This one however didn't know what it wanted to be and so the ending makes no sense. The ending suggests it's all in Michael's head. But the rest of the group seeing the bodies/note, and the girl trying to warn herself at the end says exactly the opposite.
Anyway, give triangle another watch and pay attention to the car accident at the end. The name of the boat during the loop is the name of the school the marching band she sees at the end goes to...
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Thanks, but I've watched Triangle lots of times! My interpretation is there is an actual loop of her getting another chance to fix things with her son, as she finds piles of physical bodies on the ship, and watches herself interacting (with herself). There is more than one of her (and other characters) at a time. According to the interview with Christopher Smith on the DVD, it's open to interpretation on which loop is the original/started the process. I believe she is between death and life, and if she gets it "right," she gets to move on and no longer be trapped (whether that means a return to life or on to the afterlife). YMMV, I guess.
With The Reeds, I didn't think it was the best movie, but the ending was clear to me. I guess YMMV on that too.
I definitely need to watch triangle again (solid flick), but wouldn't the idea that there actually is a time loop make the 'clues' at the end during the crash (marching band name/symbol) irrelevant?
As in, why would all of them be there as a coincidence AND there be a time loop? Seems like it'd be one or the other...
'Get yourself a real dog. Any dog under 50 lbs is a cat and cats are pointless' - Ron Swanson
I always thought that in Triangle the protagonist was in limbo forever until she changed the cycle. She was so devastated about her sons death so she tries to change it everytime but fails. Meaning she has not moved on yet.
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The name of the school at the end isn't Æolus. The drum has the same insignia as the drum on the ship (and is playing Anchors Aweigh) because the entirety of the film is not in Reality - all of it is bound to the boat and the decisions Jess makes. The Jess we follow we don't ever see alive; what happened to start the limbo/purgatory we are never told, though it is strongly hinted that Jess is more than just a crappy mother. Try watching it again.
Yep, she was pushing the boulder up the hill and it kept rolling back down again, forever. The cabbie (death) asks where she wants to go and she always returns to the boat - the forever-repeating loop is her purgatory. The reset point (when the boulder rolls back down) imo is when she naps on the boat.
Amazing movie. Mine Games is a vastly inferior copy. Unless ...
the poster above is correct and this isn't a time loop at all, just his schizophrenia. I like that idea much better. He starts seeing things - himself at the generator, then convincing 'himself' to burn the rest of his pills (why else would that scene be in there?). You might think the ending ruins that theory when the near dead girl hits the van window, but maybe only he saw it that first and ONLY time. He acted strange when she said not to call himself the gasman right in the beginning, which I thought was weird at the time ... maybe because he saw that?
If the movie was about his illness, I'd like it a lot more. I will have to watch the beginning again at the gas station to see if he looks past her at the window where her doppleganger hits the window at the end.
the poster above is correct and this isn't a time loop at all, just his schizophrenia. I like that idea much better. He starts seeing things - himself at the generator, then convincing 'himself' to burn the rest of his pills (why else would that scene be in there?). You might think the ending ruins that theory when the near dead girl hits the van window, but maybe only he saw it that first and ONLY time. He acted strange when she said not to call himself the gasman right in the beginning, which I thought was weird at the time ... maybe because he saw that?
I dont think it was all in Micheal's head.
Triangle is based on an old story from greek mythology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
I figured out Triangle after the second time I watched it. The Reeds, not so much. Triangle is a much better movie than Mine Games. I thought I had it then it got too smart for itself.
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