{"id":1764571,"date":"2022-12-06T07:57:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T12:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764571"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:18:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:18:27","slug":"triangle-of-sadness-drowns-in-a-sea-of-socialist-wishcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/triangle-of-sadness-drowns-in-a-sea-of-socialist-wishcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTriangle of Sadness\u201d Drowns in a Sea of Socialist Wishcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftriangle-of-sadness-drowns-in-a-sea-of-socialist-wishcasting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764571&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/triangle-of-sadness-review-Woody-Harrelson-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cTriangle of Sadness\u201d roasts the filthy rich for 90 glorious minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The problem? There\u2019s still a good hour of film left, and the final act is interminable.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or at Cannes.winner packs the subtlety of an \u201cItchy &#038; Scratchy\u201d short, but most viewers won\u2019t care. The one-percent takedowns prove as decadent as the meals served in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/the-menu-review-fiennes\/\">The Menu<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s lip-smackingly good.<\/p>\n<p>The film runs out of satirical targets before director\u00a0Ruben \u00d6stlund of \u201cForce Majure\u201d fame stumbles. By that last reel, he\u2019s naming his targets in the film\u2019s dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Literally.<\/p>\n<p>Young lovers Yaya and Carl (Charlbi Dean Kriek and Harris Dickinson) fight over the dinner check as the story opens. She\u2019s a glamorous influencer with cash to burn (we assume). He\u2019s a male model forced to strut his stuff in humiliating auditions.<\/p>\n<p>His introductory scene mocks Balenciaga in a way that makes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11498865\/AnnaLynne-McCord-joins-protest-against-Balenciaga-outside-LA-store-child-advertising-scandal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">company\u2019s current woes<\/a> seem quaint.<\/p>\n<p>The couple settle their gender-based argument and, later, embark on a luxury cruise. The ultra-rich passengers have their every needs met, and these soulless cads get creative with their demands.<\/p>\n<p>One crew member gets the boot mid-cruise for the crime of saying, \u201chello\u201d to a passenger\u2019s girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/inheritance-review-2020\/\"><strong>RELATED: \u2018INHERITANCE\u2019 SLAMS THE RICH ALONG WITH COMMON SENSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00d6stlund gets plenty of mileage out of his satirical targets, from an elderly couple who sell weapons of war for profit to a woman who insists the motorized yacht has \u201cdirty sails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s machine-gunning fish in a barrel, but the pacing works in \u00d6stlund\u2019s\u00a0favor. And that\u2019s before Woody Harrelson arrives as a drunken captain who pines for a Marxist world order.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Ckq_xDhjDu_\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Disaster strikes the vessel in more ways than one. The minute Harrelson\u2019s character starts reciting Marxist bon mots \u201cTriangle\u201d hits a creative iceberg.\u00a0His anti-American rant signals both the film\u2019s obvious agenda (duh!) and, more importantly, its creative decline.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan devotees might nod along with \u201cTriangle\u2019s\u201d satirical broadsides up until this point, even as their favorite president gets name-checked by a creepy capitalist (Zlatko Buric).<\/p>\n<p>Now, the lectures arrive without all that fancy gift wrapping.\u00a0And, when the boat\u2019s passengers end up on a remote island, \u00d6stlund gives up trying to entertain us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTriangle of Sadness\u201d becomes an MSNBC-style monologue delivered by Keith Olbermann.<\/p>\n<p>The laughs disappear, woke narratives flood the screen and Ostlund\u2019s screenplay makes characters mouth his talking points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Down with the Patriarchy!<\/li>\n<li>Socialism rocks!<\/li>\n<li>America is the Great Satan!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The beauty behind \u201cTriangle of Sadness\u2019s\u201d first half is how its socialist world view entertains people of all political stripes. Funny is funny, and the cartoonishly rich are ripe for ridicule.<\/p>\n<p>The belabored finale stumbles in all the ways that matter. Characters become maddeningly inconsistent. The plucky humor evaporates. The film\u2019s intentions lap any attempt at coherent storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>Poor Dolly De Leon. Her character becomes integral to the story but exists solely to send a socialist message to viewers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one:\u00a0What a shame that a ship as sturdy as \u201cTriangle of Sadness\u201d springs so many leaks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HiT or Miss<\/strong>: \u201cTriangle of Sadness\u201d rips the rich in some hilarious ways before resorting to a primer on Marxism 101 (without laughs or tension).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTriangle of Sadness\u201d roasts the filthy rich for 90 glorious minutes. The problem? There\u2019s still a good hour of film left, and the final act is interminable. 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