Triangle of Sadness (2022)

Zlatko Buric: Dimitry

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• Dimitry : A Russian capitalist, and an American communist.

• The Captain : You're going to like this one... "The last capitalist we hang will be the one who sold us the rope." Karl Marx.

  Dimitry : Oh! Shit!

• The Captain : Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.

  Dimitry : Ah...

  The Captain : That's Edward Abbey.

• Dimitry : I have a joke. Do you know how to tell a communist? It's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And do you know how to tell an anti-communist?

  The Captain : Uh-huh.

  Dimitry : It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Ha-ha! It's Ronald Reagan. Funny guy!

• The Captain : Never argue with an idiot, they'll only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. Mark Twain.

  Dimitry : Oh-oh... Okay.

• The Captain : Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greece. Freedom... for slave owners.

  Dimitry : I know. Vladimir Lenin! School.

• [Switching on Tannoy] 

  Dimitry : Say it again!

  The Captain : 'My government murdered Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Bobby Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy.. My government overthrew good, honest, democratic leaders of the people in Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, and Bolivia. Along with Britain, we carved up the Middle East, creating artificial geographical boundaries and installing puppet dictators.'

  The Captain : 'War itself became our most lucrative industry. Every bomb that's dropped, somebody makes a million dollars. You don't have to know where those bombs are exploding. You don't have to see the grieving mothers and the mangled bodies of their children.'

  The Captain : 'Eugene Debs gave this speech in Canton, Ohio, in 1918: "Throughout history wars have been waged for conquest and plunder... The master class has always declared the wars. The subject class has always fought... They've taught you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command... When Wall Street says war, the press says war."'

• Dimitry : Ronald Reagan, he said also, "Socialism works only in heaven where they don't need it, and in hell where they already have it."

  The Captain : That's... that's pretty good.

  Dimitry : Yeah?

• [Reading From His Notebook] 

  The Captain : 'And I recall, I was seven years old walking into the kitchen to find my mother crying inconsolably: Martin Luther King had been shot. Two months later, she was crying again: Bobby Kennedy was killed. I couldn't know then what I know now, that the invisible thread connecting Martin Luther King, the Kennedy brothers, and Malcolm X, was that in each case, my government had their finger on the trigger.'

  Dimitry : Wait. Wait!

• Carl : So what do you do?

  Dimitry : I sell shit.

• Dimitry : Okay. A classic. "The most powerful single force in the world today is man's eternal desire to be free and independent." Kennedy.

  The Captain : Okay.

• Dimitry : Listen: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher.

• [repeated line] 

  Dimitry : I sell shit.

• Dimitry : Karl Marx wrote "The Communist Manifesto" So you are a communist.

  The Captain : No! No! There's a difference.

  Dimitry : In materialism you believe in theory. You are an idealist.