The Movie Industry’s Confused ‘Eat the Rich’ Fantasy

What Triangle of Sadness and The Menu get wrong about class warfare.

Photo: Fredrik Wenzel/Plattform Produktion The existence of hell is a problem for theologians: Why would a just and merciful god create a playground for the perpetual torture of his children? But for the rest of us it’s a comfort. Never in human history have we possessed so capacious a knowledge of the various and specific iniquities of the world — and so little hope of them ever being rectified. Evil abounds; justice is scarce. Every day brings more nuanced data about the criminally wealthy, the lives they live at our expense, and the elaborate means at their disposal to escape judgment. In t

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