Review of Triangle of Sadness (2022) by Jluis_001 — 22 Nov 2022
The high expectations I had for this film after it won the top prize at Cannes were, I think, quite exaggerated and I blame myself for that.
For such an obvious work, subtlety wasn't going to get it anywhere insightful, but it also doesn't work to be so overly unrefined about it. And it's not because I think what it attacks doesn't deserve it, but the criticism of the elites has become tiresome when it's nothing more than a fleeting piece of entertainment, even if the film is almost 3 hours long.
Triangle of Sadness is a film that pretends to be so much when it begins to mindlessly circle around in its own redundancy and banality. And while this doesn't lead me to say that this makes it a low quality film - which it doesn't - its engagement reminds me of the expression ''panem et circenses'' as we are entertained by the performance that is supposed to mock the elites who don't give a damn when they wallow in their excesses.
It was not bad per se, but it is too long, and its impact is ephemeral.
This review of Triangle of Sadness (2022) was written by Jluis_001 on 22 Nov 2022.
Triangle of Sadness has generally received positive reviews.
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