A misconception and other stories

It has all started with a rather odd misconception!

Let's start from here. I found these two new directors to be mad about?
Mad about...?!
Let's say admirable. Mmm...better!

At the beginning, I did not have idea about the two directors while I have been watching those movies. It is a habit that I hardly remember the name or faces of the actors/actresses or directors, neither I have much interest in knowing. Of course, until something intrigues that uninterest!

After watching "Seven Psychopaths" and then "The Square", I thought "Oh! Isn't this director fascinating". Eventually through various occasions and encounters, I watched "Force Majeure", "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri".
I cannot remember why or from where I have got this idea that all these movies are directed by Ruben Östlund!
And the most recent one was "Triangle of Sadness" and later "The Banshees of Inisherin".

Whatever the source of my belief it was so founded rather strongly that I did not try to look around. I mean that was not necessary as I do not know that I know wrong or I know that I do not know wrong!

And so on, after watching "The Banshees of Inisherin", I thought "Wow! Isn't Martin amazing!" Thanks to Oscar (at least one good thing happened), I came to learned about Martin McDonagh. And you can assume the rest, I eventually found out that those movies are of these two distinguished directors'.
Martin McDonagh- Seven Psychopaths, Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Banshees of Inisherin, and In Burges.
Ruben Östlund- Triangle of Sadness, Force Majeure, the Square

So I thought about it for a while.

Thought about why, I so naturally believed that all these cinemas are of one Directors', which is Ruben Östlund?

Then I realize, (subconsciously) I found the sheer subtlety of those movies, having some similarity.
The absurdity they show, the humor the convey through some dark comedy of life, existence, politics, society, discriminations, differences, instincts... everything.
The level of conscious mindfulness yet slipping through the thin-border-line between reality and surrealism in the end, poking all of your suppressive subconscious illusions.

Exposing yet not telling, implying yet indescribable, relating to nothing yet related to everything, incomprehensible yet simple...

But the more I thought, the more the thoughts processed towards the sublimed idea of distinctions between the tow directors.

I found Ruben is more prone of showing...umm let's say "excessiveness of the motion". I loved how he capture "the motion of the expressions" and "kept it on the screen more than we expect". He is very thorough, precise, and versed. He takes the shots longer than "we, audience expect it to be", which I think one of the other thing that caught my attention.
He raised the question I used to ask people that "How do we measure how much is too much?"

And also while you will feel like Martin's theme are rather floating, undefined till the last play, while Ruben has a preset of what he is going to project this time and throughout the length of the movie, he keep unfolding that preset, expanding it, eventually leaving a cliffhanger!

Well... I guess now that I am aware of this, I can now clearly define the odds and differences between the two of them.

Nonetheless, I still feel that they have yet a resemblances about their cinema that is indescribable yet fairly perceivable.

The contents are mine, the pictures are screenshot from the movies.