Triangle Of Sadness Review : Beautifully Hilarious Satire
Triangle of Sadness stars harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean. Carl is questioned by a casting director in the opening scenes of Ruben Stlund's Oscar-winning film "Can You Relax Your Triangle of Sadness?" Carl is attending a casting call for a company that advertises itself as "grumpy" and allows its models to belittle its customers.
The models are forced to change from their Balenciaga data-faces to their H&M data-faces by someone filming them, with a small scowl and furrowed brow changing to a slice of gleaming white teeth and dimples. Triangle of Sadness is a visceral and scathingly humorous takedown of models, influencers, and wealth hoarders and while it starts to buckle under its lofty aims, it was written by Stlund, whose film The Square also won the Palme.
The name "Triangle of Sadness" refers to the wrinkled and botox-injected area of the data-face between the brows and above the nose. However, it makes a reference to another well-known Bermudan triangle halfway through the second act. Triangle of Sadness' first half succeeds well as a scathing, though cliched, send-up of wealth and beauty, but it's in the second half where director Robert Stlund truly hits his stride. Characters are pushed together and pulled apart, which causes power dynamics to increase and constrict. The real fun starts once several boat travellers land on a gorgeous tropical island, but to say much more would enter spoiler zone.
Stlund has approached his subject matter from all angles in order to create such a comprehensive movie. Although it might not be as incisive as earlier works like The Square or Force Majeure, there is something about its bluntness that supports his vision. Stlund appears to know what he's doing until it becomes too obvious. Everything is just as ostentatious as the capitalists the movie criticises. Triangle of Sadness is overt in every way—from the yacht to the clothes worn and the food given at the captain's dinner just before all hell breaks loose—and that's precisely why it succeeds.