Triangle of Sadness
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"So he wanted you to enter this industry [being a male model] where you only earn one third of the women. And where you constantly have to manoeuvre homosexual men who want to sleep with you?"-- Triangle of Sadness (2022) "Aren't you going to eat the pasta? Sorry? ...No I'm gluten intolerant ... It's just for the pictures, she's an influencer [...] Do you make money on that? [...] It depends. You mostly get free stuff [...] We got this cruise for free. [...] Good, her looks paid for the ticket."-- Triangle of Sadness (2022) Do you know how to tell a communist? "Socialism works only in heaven where they don't need it, and in hell where they already have it."--Ronald Reagan "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." --Margaret Thatcher "How people perceive themselves is nothing that interests me.. There are very few that are gonna look in the mirror and say: The person I see is a savage monster. Instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do."-- How the World Works (2010) by Noam Chomsky "Never argue with an idiot, they'll only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience." --Mark Twain "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell." --Edward Abbey |
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Triangle of Sadness (2022) is a film written and directed by Ruben Östlund, and marks his English-language feature film debut. The film follows a fashion model celebrity couple who are invited to join a luxury cruise for the ultra-rich, when things begin to go wrong.
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Premise
Models Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean) navigate the turbulent seas of high fashion as they deal with the reality and boundaries of their relationship. Invited aboard a superyacht for a luxury break, they find themselves in the company of a Russian oligarch, a British arms dealer and a coterie of nefarious characters, all under the command of a Marx-quoting American captain (Woody Harrelson).
Initially resembling an influencer’s dream, life aboard the ship turns fraught as a storm nears. Tempers are frayed and constitutions are tested, even before the captain decides to entertain his guests with a richly extravagant meal. As chaos descends, the balance of power shifts and the order of things is reversed, setting the scene for a new kind of class conflict.
Plot
Part 1: Carl & Yaya
Carl, a model, attends an uncomfortable casting call with other male models. Carl is dating Yaya, a model and influencer, and resents her for expecting him to pay for meals even though she earns more than he does. They bicker about money and gender roles. Yaya admits that she is in a relationship with Carl for the engagement it earns them on social media, and that she seeks to become a trophy wife, but Carl declares that she will come to love him.
Part 2: The Yacht
Carl and Yaya are invited on a luxury cruise aboard a superyacht in exchange for its social media promotion. Among the wealthy guests are the Russian oligarch Dimitry (seller of 'shit', by which he means fertilizer) and his wife Vera; the elderly couple Clementine and Winston, who have made their fortune manufacturing grenades and other weapons; Therese, a wheelchair user only capable of speaking a single phrase ("in den Wolken") in German following a stroke; and Jarmo, a lonely tech millionaire who flirts with Yaya. The guests luxuriate on the yacht, oblivious to the crew working to meet their every need and whim. The head of staff, Paula, demands they obey the guests' absurd requests, including having every crew member swim in the sea. The kitchen crew is ordered to swim as well, despite the chef warning that the food will go bad. Carl complains to Paula about a crew member with whom Yaya flirted, inadvertently getting the man fired. Meanwhile, the yacht's captain, Thomas Smith, spends his time drunk in his cabin.
Paula gets Thomas to sober up and attend the captain's dinner as the yacht passes through a storm. Several guests become violently seasick, vomit or have diarrhea, possibly due to the food, and panic breaks out. The drunken Thomas and Dimitry debate in favour of communism and capitalism, respectively, over the intercom. Several guests are injured as the storm tosses the ship, the sewage floods, and the power goes out. When morning arrives, pirates attack, killing Clementine and Winston with a grenade and sinking the yacht.
Part 3: The Island
A small group of survivors consisting of Carl, Yaya, Dimitry, Therese, Paula, Jarmo, ship's mechanic Nelson (whom Dimitry accuses of being a pirate), and cleaning woman Abigail manage to escape to an island. At first, Paula continues to order Abigail to serve the cruise guests. When it becomes clear that Abigail is the only one with survival skills, such as catching fish and starting a fire, she mutinies and usurps command by withholding food. She gains her own private bed inside a lifeboat and coerces Carl into a sexual relationship by giving him food in exchange for sexual favors. Jarmo kills a wild donkey for food by smashing it with a rock, which Dimitry, Nelson and the others celebrate. Yaya grows jealous of Carl while he considers leaving her for Abigail.
When Yaya hikes to the other side of the island, Abigail volunteers to go with her despite Carl's concerns. They discover a lift built into the rocks and realise they have been stranded near a luxury resort. Back at the camp, Therese encounters a beach vendor but is unable to communicate her situation. Yaya celebrates finding the lift, but Abigail hesitates to enter, fearing she is losing her power. She then prepares to attack Yaya with a rock, but hesitates when the oblivious Yaya offers to help Abigail get better work as her assistant. Elsewhere, Carl frantically runs through the jungle.
Cast
The film stars Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean in her final film role, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Burić, Henrik Dorsin, Vicki Berlin and Woody Harrelson. It is the last film that Charlbi Dean starred, following her death in August 2022.
- Harris Dickinson as Carl
- Charlbi Dean as Yaya
- Dolly de Leon as Abigail
- Zlatko Burić as Dimitry
- Woody Harrelson as Captain Thomas Smith
- Iris Berben as Therese
- Vicki Berlin as Paula
- Henrik Dorsin as Jorma Björkman
- Jean-Christophe Folly as Nelson
- Amanda Walker as Clementine
- Oliver Ford Davies as Winston
- Sunnyi Melles as Vera
Bande originale
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| piste6 = Once In a While | extra6 = Michael Edwards, Bud Green | temps6 = 3:03
| piste7 = The Ocean | extra7 = Linnea Olsson | temps7 = 4:15
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| piste13 = Quintette à cordes opus 11 | extra13 = Luigi Boccherini | temps13 = 3:49
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