![]() The acting in Triangle of Sadness is strong, and you do find yourself invested in the characters. (It turns out you can’t survive off Rolexes alone. After a day of doing the work to keep everyone alive, Abigail claims the well-deserved role of “captain†of the survivors and starts calling the shots on their little island. To no one’s surprise, it also seems she’s the only one who has any hope of catching fish and building a fire to keep everyone alive. Abigail (Dolly De Leon), a member of the below-decks crew, comes bearing bottled water and pretzel sticks. A lot of satire, but not a lot of subtletyįortunately for the washed-up wealthy, an unintended savior arrives via lifeboat shortly after. Now, it’s a survival story – with people who seemed barely fit to function in the most plush and luxurious of conditions. ![]() Most of its passengers wind up missing or dead, but a few find themselves washed ashore on a desert island. ![]() Violent illness, a stormy night, and an attack by pirates ultimately leads the yacht to capsize. (Food poisoning meets seasickness – the great equalizer.) If you’ve seen the film’s trailer, you know Östlund isn’t afraid to let things take a turn for the gross. Naturally, then, it’s deeply satisfying to watch these hoity-toity vacationers all get violently ill during a rough night on the water. (This ultimately leads to the entire crew having to abandon their posts because one guest gets it in her head that they should all “have fun†going down the ship’s water slide.) “No†is simply not an option when speaking to people this rich. An early scene sees Vicki Berlin’s Paula instructing the crew to never turn down a guest request – no matter what it is. A man tries to buy a Rolex for a woman he just met at the bar.Īnd the service on the yacht only encourages their behavior. A couple lament their business’s decline in revenue due to greater restrictions on war crimes. Yaya poses for photos with food she can’t eat. ![]() Östlund knows it – and he’s going to make sure that’s present in every moment of this film.įrom the first time Carl and Yaya step on board the luxury yacht, we see them surrounded by people who are comically wealthy and out of touch. The uber-wealthy are a different (generally more terrible) kind of people. It’s a subset of the movie’s larger thesis, which is… Rich people are the worst. I thought it said something about our era’s obsession with looks and that inner wellbeing is, in some respects, secondary.â€Īs you might anticipate, status, vanity, and overall “looks†play into the film’s themes pretty significantly. Östlund himself said, “In Swedish it’s called ‘trouble wrinkle’ and it suggests you’ve had a lot of struggles in your life. (It’s the wrinkle between someone’s eyebrows.) If you’re outside the modeling / plastic surgery industry, you may not be familiar with the term “triangle of sadness.†The movie explains the concept early on, when Dickinson’s Carl is asked to “relax his triangle of sadness†at a modeling casting call. The film comes from writer/director Ruben Östlund, and won the Palme d’Or at Cannes earlier this year.
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