Triangle of Sadness

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🎙️ EPISODE 660: 03.08.23 Part of 2022 Week! From the Swedish mastermind behind Force Majeure (which I watched but never reviewed), Ruben Östlund, comes 2022's most OUTRAGEOUS comedy: it's Triangle of Sadness, folks, which has to be the only Best Picture Oscar nominee in history to feature a prolonged projectile vomiting and diarrhea goof. This movie is extremely entertaining. It wears its satire on its sleeve and is never particularly deep. But it's not supposed to be. The film's most notorious and chaotic scene is soundtracked by a ludicrous conversation between a socialist American (Woody Harrelson) and a capitalist Russian (Zlatko Burić ); their world views boiled down to the most stock and basic quotes from Karl Marx and Ronald Reagan which they read off their phones verbatim, like eight-graders. But fear not, this never descends into any "both sides" ism hell.

The rich are treated like voodoo dolls, from the first drop of puke to the bitter end. And the real trick of it is that they never feel like villainous caricatures. They're nuanced, flawed people. Do they really deserve the hell they're put through for our enjoyment? Simply for the crime of "having money?" By the final frame, the answer seems to be clear, and the entire facade is gone in one violent flash.

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Triangle of Sadness is a 2022 satirical black comedy film written and directed by Ruben Östlund in his English-language feature film debut. The film stars Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Burić, Henrik Dorsin, Vicki Berlin, and Woody Harrelson. It is the last film Dean starred in before her death in August 2022. The film follows a celebrity couple on a luxury cruise with wealthy guests. It was released on May 21, 2022.