Triangle

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What was confusing about the movie, “Triangle” is that it is not your typical horror movie. Most horror movies like When A Stranger Calls, The Grudge, The Conjuring and Annabelle, leave you scared to sleep alone for the next couple of nights. Triangle on the other hand did not even make me flinch. In my opinion, it is more closely associated to psychotic thrillers like Inception, Shutter Island and The Sixth Sense.

However, there are elements of a horror movie that are shown in this movie. The scene that struck the most fear was when they were walking around the ship looking for passengers. They saw a shadow of a person in the mirror, writing on the glass with blood and a key left on the floor but they could not find the person who was doing all this. The second element was mystery. The main character could not figure out what was happening. When she saw pieces of paper on the floor with her writing and she did not remember writing anything. She was confused why the same scenarios keep repeating and repeating. Lastly, the element of suspense was seen when the main character realized that when everyone dies, the whole cycle repeats again. Every time everyone dies, the audience was on the edge of their seats waiting to see what will happen next. Whether the main character will try to do something differently or the same thing will happen. Each time it repeats, something new is revealed.

Triangle revolves around the central theme of a mother saving her child. The mother loved her child so much that she is willing to kill and relive the agony of the painful experiences again and again to try to bring her son back to life. At the start of the movie, the mother serves as an inspiration because she was being selfless to protect her son, which was ironic because at the end of the movie, the plot twist is that she is actually an abusive mother. The moral of the story could be that the series of events happening is her karma for how she was treating her son.

When you put the words triangle and horror together, the things that come to my mind are illuminati or the ouija board. It is not clearly seen in the movie what the correlation of the triangle is to what is happening to the characters. My interpretation is each side of the triangle symbolizes past, present and future. There is no escape from the repetition of these events because the past would always become the present, the present will become the future and vice versa. There is no beginning and the end. This is where the real fear sets in because there is a possibility that something remotely similar could happen to us in our lives. We get stuck in bad situations like money debt, drug addiction or a fatal illness. We are not certain of whether things will ever change or if we will be stuck in the situation forever. It could be a never-ending cycle of doom.