‘Triangle Of Sadness’: Read The Screenplay From Ruben Östlund That Takes On Our Obsession With Beauty
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Ruben Östlund’s second Palme d’Or winner, Triangle of Sadness, inherits its name from a witty Swedish saying that describes the wrinkles that form between a person’s eyebrows when they are worried or stressed. “You get it if you have had a lot of trouble in your life.
But you can fix it with Botox in 15 minutes,” Östlund preciously told Deadline of the phrase. “It’s a term that comes from cosmetic surgery — not plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery — and I thought it was comical.
Like, a dark, comical comment about surface and beauty: our obsession with beauty, and our obsession with looks, and our belief that our inner problems will be solved if we construct a great shell around ourselves.” The term is explained during the early moments of the film, which follows Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (the late Charlbi Dean), a celebrity model couple who are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson).
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