Triangle of Sadness  2022

Directed by  Ruben Östlund

Denmark

Triangle of sadness explores the possibilities of a primitive world for primitive human instincts.

Humans are social animals. Things for us would have been different if we would have denied the beliefs in systems. Might it be the financial system of the order of Hierarchy that oriented from leadership and shifted to the bloodlines. An order that allowed the weak to survive.

Said so, The triangle of sadness mocks the capitalistic structure of our society where humility might be hostile but consumption is available widely, baring a tag go rarity. What is said to be done is just said and what is not supposed to be mentioned is done anyway. We are walking a pretentious path. Wearing the masks required by the social facet. 

Ruben Östlund Writes and Directs through artistic lenses and questions reality poised with the superficiality. He also explores the democratising nature of art and yet the art is confined to the walls of Museums or Collectors. A quality of segregating the facts from perception which we have spoken about in his film - The Square.

The Societal misleads on the distribution of the wealth, Disparity offered to the blue collar by deciding for them and the absence of individual freedom forms a triangle of sadness. Moreover, what I liked the most about this film is that it walks the thin line of Luxuries democratised nature and avant grade it borrows from art without being pretentious or positively discriminating any of the parts facing each other. The rich, the poor, the luxury, the art. Said so, The film appreciates the modesty and humble beginning of the character of his stories. And peeps into the bitterness of the truth we hide behind the facet of the empire of goodies we build on ourselves.

In my view, The Square raised many questions in mind. Ruben Östlund answers most of them with a triangle of Sadness.