Newcastle
Film Society

Triangle of Sadness takes a swipe at the obscenely affluent.

Two models, Carl and Yaya, have been invited as influencers aboard a yacht cruise. The yacht has a crew of people so wealthy that they’ve lost all touch with normality. Most of them have earned generational wealth through ventures that have not improved the world, such as the couple whose fortune comes from grenades.

From the opening sequence this film uses the crew and passengers as a metaphor for the class structure of western society; the rich passengers sunning themselves on the deck, the white staff celebrate their potential tips in the middle and the largely non-white staff sitting in the hull below.