The funny and biting satire about the world of fashion and social and political inequalities Triangle of Sadness, of Ruben Ostlund, winner of the Palme d’Or in 2017 and nominated for an Oscar for The Square, was given a standing ovation for long minutes in his premiere world. According to the majority of international critics, To date, it is the most likely to receive the prestigious Palme d’Or for this 75th anniversary edition. This is Ruben Östlund’s first film in English, and it is made up of an international cast led by the North American actor Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson and Charlie Dean. A comedy worth letting yourself be seduced by.
The Swedish director immersed himself in this world of physical beauty, influencers and all around him thanks to his spouse, as he admitted these days on the Croisette: “When I met my wife, a fashion photographer, I wanted to know everything about this image industry. We talk a lot about how in this medium the most important thing is aesthetics, the product itself, and about the conditions of the models. We talk about beauty as a type of currency, which is attractive, but also scary because it is dominating the world. That was the starting point”.
The film follows Carl and his girlfriend Yaya, who are invited to a luxury cruise ship with a gallery of rich rascals as passengers. Suddenly a routine and tedious start takes another turn. The cruise ends catastrophically and they both end up marooned on a desert island with a group of billionaires and one of the ship’s cleaners. I do not continue so as not to ruin the ending, totally unexpected.
“The goal was to create a roller coaster for adults, something entertaining, challenging and funny. Using the cinema for what it is: a collective experience that in the end leaves you reflecting”he continued.
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“We showed the film to people from different regions and they all reacted differently. I finally saw that we Europeans are not a good audience, we sit with our arms crossed, we forget that we are part of the show. We had the responsibility to create a great film and I am happy that everyone is behind its socialist content, “he said.
He also referred to a scientific study to relate the behavior of fashion: “Something very interesting that I learned is how fashion is the marketing strategy. It was born from an investigation on the zebras in the savannah, from the hands of a scientist who was observing them, but who could not identify one in particular within the herd. So he decided to paint his fur red. The point is that not only he identified her, but also the lions that attacked her. In this way he concluded that the camouflage of the zebra is not to disappear in the sheet, but to disappear in the herd. Fashion works exactly the same way, as we dress to blend in with a social group so that we don’t differ too much.”
And he added: “For the fashion industry it’s great to have several collections a year, so we have to consume more clothes so that we don’t stand out from the pack. Therefore, this seen from a social logic behavior was the approach with which I began to see the fashion industry”. He concluded.
Woody Harrelson, the film’s star, initially joked about his character, Thomas, the alcoholic captain of the ship: “He’s a Marxist, but I’m not. I am an anarchist, so in that sense we are different”. With an immediate change of expression, he referred to the war between Russia and Ukraine saying that it is “abhorrent when a superpower that has great military might without any provocation attacks a country like Ukraine.” about his role in Triangle Of Sadnessthe American actor expressed: “I love the character, because I think Ostlund let that be the message of the movie. I will definitely participate in his next production, doing what he wants that I do”, I limit. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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