Review of Triangle of Sadness (2022) by Clem666 — 12 Feb 2023

'Triangle of Sadness' is the kind of movie that tries to offer something new. Here it is the form that attracts attention more than the content.

Because this movie is visually very interesting : it is bright, colourful, sometimes dark and it combines many different environments. Actors are likeable even if some (as Carl) desperately need some more depth.

The film is divided into three acts, surely referring to its title as well as the love triangle on which the plot focuses in the last act. But this separation in acts doesn't bring much to the storyline other than a complete change of set. And that is the main flaw of the movie : the story doesn't move on with events, it is the events that bring something vaguely looking like a story. And if the first half of the movie is really promising and throws a lot of parallel sidestories, the second half makes it ridiculous.

The film oscillates awkwardly in the reading grids it proposes, from the social grid (with allusions to friendship, love, equality between partners, careers in couples, etc.) to the most trivial grids (such as our human condition, our concern to look good, to seduce, to make wealth a priority). And the quality decreases even more when disturbing and shocking scenes appear and try to make us laugh. It questions many cultural and political aspects, but doesn't seem to offer a true reflection about it.