REVIEW: New Film Triangle of Sadness Wants You to Eat The Rich and Its Hilarious
Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness premiered at Cannes Film Festival and stars Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly De Leon, Zlatko Burić Henrik Dorsin, Vicki Berlin, and Woody Harrelson. Östlund has won Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival twice for The Square and Triangle of Sadness.
Triangle of Sadness is a hilarious dramedy about a fleet of elite yacht passengers who are brought together as moguls, influencers, and models traveling across the Mediterranean in all of their poshness and wealth, alongside the meager blue color crew that waits on the collective passenger’s beck and call.
Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean star as a young couple, two working models in the industry that open the film. They are rowing out at dinner in a battle over who will pay the bill, which dives into a deeper conversation on the politics of dating, sex, and relationships as a commodity. Charlbi’s character Yaya, is insistent that she will be a trophy wife soon and rejects her boyfriend Carl’s debate on why she really is with him.
The two then end up on a yacht, which is a perk of Yaya’s influencer career, with all expenses paid which loops them in with some of the wealthiest guests, where money is no option on their trip around the Mediterranean sea.
Consumption is a huge theme as we are introduced to guests and crew that understand the idea of transacting beauty and its a race for one’s sanity as the boat begins to sink during the captain’s dinner, of which they had to pry him out of his quarters to watch his decadent guests consume the most undigestable Michelin worthy delectables during a raging ocean storm and an attack by pirates that has all of the guests losing their meal and literally getting blown out of the water.
The fortunate few land on what appears to be a deserted island with one crew member, Abigail, played by Dolly De Leon, Yaya, and Carl, an older wealthy mogul who takes jewelry off his wife as her body washes up, a handicapped woman that cannot walk or talk and a few other stragglers. Their survival skills kick in and the tables turn as the only one with any real talent to live, is Abigail, who quickly takes on the role of “captain,” rations the snacks, and takes on a young male concubine in exchange for pretzel sticks which have become the new gold.
Triangle of Sadness is racy, thought-provoking, and a wild ride that will have you reevaluating your relationships, your job, and your life and contemplating what really truly makes us go left and right in life.
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