#519 - Triangle of Badness by Michael and Us published on 2024-04-26T20:06:34Z If all of our current class hierarchies were eliminated, what would replace them? This question is at the core of TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022), the art-house hit that show the limits of being an "equal-opportunity offender." PLUS: campus protests, keffiyeh bans, and the state of the publishing industry. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus "No One Buys Books" by Elle Griffin - https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books "The Delusional Triangle of Sadness" by Armond White - https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/the-delusional-triangle-of-sadness/ "Triangle of Sadness" review by Richard Brody - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/triangle-of-sadness-reviewed-were-on-a-yacht-and-were-puking "Triangle of Sadness" review by Gabe Klinger - https://letterboxd.com/gabeklinger/film/triangle-of-sadness/ Comment by Baba-Mužik i find this quite reductive and in its way reminiscent of the worst of pauline kael, i.e. judging a movie by imagining someone else's naive understanding of it 2024-04-27T08:28:23Z Comment by Finger Painting Feckless boat shoes socialists sounded pretty salty, probably because they got a face full of reality that revealed just how poorly educated they are on nearly any topic and how little popular support they have while demanding majority control of politics, it stands to reason why they are abandoning electoralism and embracing authoritarianism and it is not just because they share common cause with hijackers and hostage takers and terrorists that incessantly fire rockets at civilian targets. Michael and Us is the ice pick that killed Trotsky. They are the tanks in Tiananmen and the struggle session red guard after the 100 blossoms. They are Castro's Military Units to Aid Production and they do not care about workers or vulnerable communities and they only LARP as revolutionaries when their only real message is the left version of "We live in a society bottom text". 2024-04-26T22:32:13Z