What was your greatest collaboration?
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. . .here are my thoughts.
What was your greatest collaboration?
Years ago, my wife and I wrote a 12-page short story together. I wrote page 1 before handing it off to her to write page 2. We employed the improvisational rule of “yes, and” in our collaboration, swapping after each page until we had both written six. The story turned out pretty good, and perfectly coherent. The film Triangle of Sadness reminds me of this writing method, except with a chaotic “no, but” feel. I imagine spouses writing this screenplay in the midst of contentious divorce proceedings—as though each is content with their failure as long as their soon-to-be ex also goes down like the yacht in the film. Here are my thoughts on the choose-your-own-interpretation ending. The female model in the film’s love triangle is like the donkey that’s bashed on the head with a rock but doesn’t instantly die. The toilet cleaner turned captain has a change of heart after her non-fatal rock assault on the model. The captain goes back to alert the victim’s boyfriend (who is also the captain’s boy toy) of the model’s grave injury. I’m convinced she lives. All three harbor regrets—the movie’s ultimate triangle of sadness.