Product: Triangle (2009)
Rating: 4.0
It's a Good Movie, but with A Major Plot Error
Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the complexity and sophistication of this movie, and generally did enjoy it....but I remain troubled by one significant plot issue. Please feel free to share your personal, thoughtful insights via "Comments" at the end of this revue.SPOILER ALERT: This is ONLY for those who have already seen the movie.We repeatedly see physical evidence of the large number of times that Jess has gone through the loops and cycles of her alternate reality. We see piles of bodies, lockets, and seagulls which are all either on the "ghost ship" or out of sight behind a seawall, and thus not evident to the general public. Apparently, in this movie, at the conclusion of each "loop" all evidence that accumulated during the loop remains intact; unlike, say, Groundhog Day, where the evidence of each loop is wiped clean, allowing the protagonist to start from scratch each day with only his/her memory of events to aid them in pursuing a better path.Here is my problem. Apparently Jess and her son are killed in a car wreck at least once for every dead seagull, and there appear to be at least 35 or 40 dead seagulls. The dead seagulls may be out of sight, but 35 or 40 identical and dramatic car wrecks involving the same two fatalities in the same spot day after day would, to put it mildly, attract attention. You cannot have it both ways. Either all physical evidence is wiped clean after each cycle, or all of it persists, including the memories of the many bystanders and 40 identical, wrecked cars and semi tractors at the police impound lot. You cannot have a pile of dead seagulls and only one wreck. You cannot have 40 wrecks without the cycles becoming public knowledge. Indeed, you would probably have a huge crowd gather each day to witness them, and Jess's private hell would become a media event.It may be a small point, but the writer/director consciously chose a path that is visually shocking (accumulated evidence); yet they either ignored or failed to consider that this accumulated evidence opens a hole in the plot you could drive a truck through.....literally.