Product: Triangle (2009)
Rating: 5.0
A Great Timeloop Tale
Time travel itself dates back long before H.G. Wells had penned his first science fiction novel the brilliant "The Time Machine" but "time loops" are a more recent sub-genre of time travel made popular by "Ground Hog Day". GHD has even become a term in Quantum Mechanics and was mentioned in "Triangle". The basic theme of time loops is that the hero/heroes relive the same period of time over and over in hopes to make changes which might make a better future. Jess, the heroine of the story, is reliving an ocean voyage and is the only one of her friends who realizes they are caught in a time loop. The greatest problem with time loop stories is the they create faults which cancel out the logic of the story such as the famous Grandfather Paradox where a person kills his own grandfather making it impossible for him to have existed and travel back in time to kill his own grandfather. As one person pointed out the looped car accident could not have happened over and over or else there would have been a pile of broken cars and bodies, the accumulation shown by the pile of dead sea gulls. However, anomalies do occur in the story, for example, in one loop Jess never interacts with the new group while in another loop she holds a shotgun on her other self. The traffic accident could have been one of these anomalies and not part of the loop. I defend the movies because I really loved it and consider it one of the better, perhaps the best, in this new genre.