This quick post in the middle of nowhere to say I’ve just seen Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness. Gosh, the first sequence with all those beautiful masculine models, and the appearing main character Carl….
Beside the evident political and economical satires about the upper class domination and the fluctuent notion of power/tyranny through a grotesque mosaic of tones and philosophical or cultural references in general, as the French film La Grande bouffe, Sartre’s Les mouches, the Hegel’s Lord-bondsman dialectic, The Tempest by Shakespeare, the story of the Titanic and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, this opening scene of the first chapter must be underlined. I never saw before such an effective way for a film to raise my interest from the beginning. Best captatio benevolentiae since very long time. Ofc, one has to immediately think of the Southern Korean film Parasite which undoubtedly plays a major role in the director’s strategy and narration.
I repeat myself, but it’s so striking in my mind, more deeply than ever. Beauty of the male body is as delightful, or even more, as female ones. Definitely a great loss we have with the fall is Greek era. Fortunately the Renaissance gave a fresh bowl of air on that.
I shall leave you now, I must find some rest to deal with a massive deathly nosebleeding.
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*Ryuby*