Showing posts with label Films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Films. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Shipwrecks and reality checks / The films setting out to skewer the rich

Stormy waters … Triangle of Sadness


Shipwrecks and reality checks: the films setting out to skewer the rich

Wealth, corruption and immorality are under intense scrutiny in a clutch of films being released this autumn

Ryan Gilbey
Tuesday 23 August 2022

At the end of March 2020, the billionaire David Geffen posted images from the Grenadines of Rising Sun, his 454ft, $400m superyacht, accompanied by a message reassuring the world that he was “avoiding the virus” and “hoping everybody is staying safe”. The post resulted in a barrage of replies. One said: “It’s like he wants to be first on the list for when the peasants revolt.” Others, which were accompanied by the hashtag #EatTheRich, forced him to change his Instagram settings to private.