SALTBURN Breakdown and ENDING EXPLAINED - Every Clue You Missed!
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2024
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What did you think of the movie?
I think a very complex film I really enjoyed it I liked that nobody in the film was that likeable.
Wife drug me along with this movie and at the end... we both hated it.
I think you need to replace Ryan with the hot chick in the TV.
best on my list of 2023
The Talented Mr. Ripoff
I haven’t seen anyone mention that after Oliver kills Felix he puts on Felix’s red bathrobe, effectively putting on Felix’s skin. Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
It’s more purple, and purple is a Royal colour.
Brillant
Didn’t even notice it
Bc it was cliche.
Oliver also uses his aftershave and I see that as him metaphorically becoming him
One thing you didn't mention was Oliver first becoming disillusioned at Oxford. Oliver worked hard to get there and continued to show that he was the hardest worker (he read the summer reading list) but then Farleigh swanned in late, did no work and the Tutor gushed over him.....because of his status. This continued through their lessons. Oliver had tried to reach the top the 'right way' by putting in the work but was smacked in the face with the fact that he would only ever be an approximation of a 'real live human boy' to the upper class.
I doubt he read the reading list since the professor said it was near impossible to read everything on it. It was just his character boasting again that he was on top. Smooth play to earn his rights there.
I honestly think Oliver was aiming to go to oxford just to find a rich kid and act out his plan.
He was lying about it and even is intelligence was up for debate as his essay said thus 9 times, some one who read 52 books would have a lot more words to use.
Well did he do the summer reading??? Remember the King James Bible was on the list and the professor was shocked he read that along with the other books on the list over the summer. Was probably just another lie.
And his tuxedo sleeves were too long tsk tsk
If oliver symbolizes the minotaur maybe Felix's wings are a nod to icarus. Icarus flew too close too the sun ,and fell to the ground felix became too close to oliver and his whole family fell.
Icarus’ father, Daedalus, was the architect who designed & built the labyrinth maze to imprison the Minotaur. Who ate the people that were sent into the maze as tribute.
@amandab3946 The word "tribute" made me think of Hunger Games and how similar Snow is to Oliver, especially in the context of minotaurs. Do you think Serjanus could be seen an Icarus type character as well?
Not related but it’s ironic because he is apart of the eternals in the MCU which features Icarus!
@@19cosmo91Suzanne Collins actually took influence from the Labyrinth! It’s in an interview in a special edition of The Hunger Games
Or a fly that got caught in "Spider Man's" web.
When Venetia is in the bath and figures Oliver out, she says he "ate Felix up and licked the plate". Then Oliver starts kissing (eating) her and licks her face "the plate." I think that was him admitting what he did and that he'll do it or did it to her, too. I think that sent her all the way over the edge, and he gave her the razor blades for an easy way out. That scene gave me chills but was so good!
True, the face licking was disgusting.
Another thing I noticed, the maze has two different paths to the middle. The Honoable Way & The Cheats Way.. guess which way the whole family takes in, and which way Oliver takes in..
Barry keoghan definitely deserves an oscar for his performance he became completely different personas at different part of the movie my feeling went from empathy to intrigued to disgust to fear and at the end i was just impressed i couldnt tell if he loved lusted or loathed felix or if it was just his ability to control people, and blend in with them that motivated him.
His performance was good but his accent was awful. Sounded nothing like a scouse accent
When he says he hated Felix, it flashbacks to the scenes where he is spying on Felix with a girl, and Oliver is crying.
He “hates” that Felix does not want him romantically.
@@Antec76 he was so hard to understand the entire time, I agree
Felix and Venetia both have matching star tattoos on their hands, so her suicide makes so much sense considering how close they were
Oh, the seating chart note is brilliant! Thank you for a much deeper analysis of the film instead of writing it off as Fennel not understanding what she wrote or there is no deeper meaning.
I also appreciate your explanation of the class commentary. I think you hit the nail on the head. To get that rich it usually requires doing bad things and for some people, they are never satisfied with what they have, they always want more. In the few interviews I have checked with Fennel, she does point out no one is actually “good” everyone just thinks they are. The system rewards awful people.
About Venetia, considering the age her mother noticed her being “sexually incontinent” at 14, combined with her bulimia, I had a feeling that someone had most likely been abusing Venetia as a child. The promiscuity paired with the bulimia seem to be symptoms of extreme harm that has been imposed on Venetia for a VERY long time.
To add to that, when talking about having a dinner with Sir James’ friends The Henrys, Venetia complains about one of the Henrys that sits next to her “molests” her. She even says her father knows which one.
Elspeth says she will just seat Venetia next to Oliver.
Everyone seems to think Venetia is joking. She isn’t. People have probably been doing awful things to Venetia and the entire family has ignored it and refuse to do anything about it. No wonder she killed herself.
All of Venetia’s problems they chalk up to her being “sexually incontinent” and as her maternal grandmother said “a born masochist”. The girl had no hope of support in her circle.
ikr. venetia just never had a chance.
love your comment, thank you!
Yeah Oliver’s entry into Saltburn seemed like an intrusion, with him walking straight towards the front door while the gate wasn’t open. Duncan also said they weren’t ready for Oliver yet. But when Oliver was leaving after V’s death, you can see the gate was open this time, implying that Duncan was ready for Oliver’s departure. Maybe he also wanted Oliver to leave.
With the rock scene another thing to consider is that Oliver is disregarding the ritual and missed on purpose, and even if he didn’t do it on purpose, it landed in throw up and trash. Trashing on the ritual. But more importantly, the rock that Felix prepared for Oliver only said Dad. Implying Felix didn’t even bother to ask what Oliver’s father’s name was or if he was told he already forgot it. More examples of Felix not really knowing Oliver truly and more just the idea of Oliver.
There are only a few movies that made me feel like this one did. There are scenes in this film that made me feel sick. It was really well done.
A little detail in the beginning that wasn’t pointed out was that the opening sequence into Oxford they weren’t singing about the rise of “Zadok the priest”, they were singing “Oliver Quick”- foreshadowing his ascension to the Saltburn Throne.
Also I disagree on the aim being “to get married with Venetia” mostly because director and writer Emerald Fennell herself states in a interview with GQ that Oliver was “profoundly in love” with Felix and her other interviews even mentioning that Oliver’s dream, the impossible dream (if it weren’t for Felix finding out the truth), was to marry HIM in saltburn- not Venetia. Plus I don’t think he knew about Venetia UNTIL he got in Saltburn.
i also thought he aimed for felix as well, especially after elspeth (?) said she wanted venetia to be with anyone, guy, girl, she didn’t care. i mean it’s possible that she lied, but she’s the one who brought it up.
Totally agree with Oliver not originally having designs on Venetia. He wanted to mess with EVERONE and he was very happy at the end to be by himself.
Also at the time I watched the movie I thought Oliver only manipulated Venetia to impress the Mum by encouraging her to eat.
@@pichelen strong agree on impressing the mother. She even rewards him by suggesting a birthday party for him.
Actually, your theory about the Range Rover is wrong. Here in England, Range Rovers, especially old vintage ones (as it shows it's from the family) are very much associated with the landed gentry. Even better if they've got mud all over them because it shows all that time that they spend out in the countryside (staying in their manors, hunting foxes and pigeons or whatever it is they do together)
I totally agree with your point. But I would politely add that it's actually a Land Rover and that they are the model synonymous with the upper class.
Yes i agree w u..any RR is a symbol of wealth and especially a vintage model👍 that was def coool
I don't think Oliver had a grand and elaborate master plan. He is a man of urges. He improvises a lot and his goal shift according to his situation. In the start, he just wanted to befriend Felix, because he had a crush on him and idolized him. When Felix grew tired of him, he grew desperate and invented the lie to get back in his good graces. When he gets to Saltburn, all he wants is to stay there like he's one of Felix's family. Everything his does to each family member is him trying to develop stronger ties to Felix's family as that would keep him there. He would have been perfectly content with that. After Felix discovers his lie, Oliver desperately tries to reconnect to Felix but when it's hopeless Oliver pivots to sacrifice his one true love so he can settle with continuing to be part of the family. The same happens with Felix's sister. Again, not planned, just solving problems in the moment. Eventually, Oliver is thwarted by Felix's father and I'm sure Oliver thought it was over. Living a life more wealthy than his parents. And it was for many years. But the universe gets him another shot and everything that's glossed over with his reunion with Felix's Mom until the dancing in the end, can fill a whole other 2 hour movie. That was the movie where he was a brilliant mastermind. But in this one, he's just a scrappy opportunistic survivor. He's also a pathological liar, so his story to Felix's Mom could just be a big fat lie.
Great analysis: "Everybody at the top is awful and if only the villains are at the top of this system maybe there is something inherently wrong with the system."
I compared/contrasted "Saltburn" with "Origin" and "The Kitchen." All three films are about caste/class. All three films indict the system that only works for the monsters at the top.
The system only works because everybody at the bottom works for it.
I believe Oliver truly was in love with Felix. It wasn't about Saltburn at the beginning. At the start of the movie he tells us he wasn't "in love" with Felix, which is a lie. Whether he is trying to convince himself or us. I feel like if Felix had of loved him back, things would have been different. I don't think he planned to kill Felix or anyone else. Things changed after Felix found out the truth and rejected him. I also don't think that he killed Venetia. I think she was already emotionally and mentally fragile and he just planted the seed. Leaving the razorblades there for her as the last little push.
And let's not forget. Oliver left Saltburn. He had absolutely nothing to do with Sir James death. He didn't die for some years afterwards. Oliver couldn't have possibly known that would happen. He just saw a way to take advantage of the situation after seeing the death notice in the newspaper. And i genuinely don't believe he is truly content. He still wants the family close. And he will never truly belong. I think the original ending would have better shown that. Him getting out of bed and coming downstairs only for Duncan to serve him runny eggs (a call back to when he first arrived at Saltburn).
The thing is, him dancing at the end is furthering the lie he tells himself. He is happy now, but he won’t be happy for long.
I fully agree he never had a plan and now he has run out of people to manipulate. He has a huge house and now no one is in it. He is happiest when he is manipulating others.
Happiness is loneliness.
i mean we can say that he’s kinda pushed venetia to her death in a way? but yeah, Sir James’ death was completely accidental. if Elspeth died first he’d never get saltburn
But here’s the thing about the end. Whether or not he wanted to kill anyone and steal their house in the beginning, that’s what he did, and the craziest part to me wasn’t even the naked dancing, it was the fact that the movie makes it seem he got away with it but more importantly that he has a trophy case sitting in the middle of the house on the main floor even. That’s just BOLD
The thought of Ryan Aerie sitting down and watching saltburn is unfathomable to me.
Best vampire movie Iv seen in a while
Just watched this movie. I thought it was interesting how Venetia still accepted the blanket from Oliver even though he had less clothes than she did. Speaks volumes that her class takes everything and cares little for anyone else's benefits
What disturbed me most about the film, other than the bathtub scenes, was a feeling when it was over that I couldn’t blame Oliver for wanting more. So disturbing. Also, thanks for also noticing Aemond Targaryen. It was surreal to see him so nerdy. Another juxtaposition, or just actor availability? Hmmm
Definitely juxtaposition. With Michael around, we don’t see Oliver as creepy. We all overlook the spying on the bedroom scene.
i just need you to know there was no twist for me. as someone from liverpool as soon as he said he was from prescot that’s the posh part of liverpool. people who live there are not poor.
A movie set in Britain, about the out of touch ultra wealthy British aristocracy, completely ruined the twist for British viewers. Bit of a screw up I think!
Maybe that was an insider hint. The Cattons have isolated themselves so much they don’t care to know.
In the very first song Fennell had the lyrics changed. Instead of “Zedok The Preist”, before “God Save The King!” She changed it to “Oliver Quick” and then “God Save The King!” . Then the shot reveals Oliver’s face at Oxford (slightly off centre). She literally told us the end of the movie almost at the very beginning.
The film The Prestige does this too, and I actually figured out the uh…central plot issue basically after the first shot of the movie. The Prestige is my favourite Nolan film because of this.
It’s not bad thing to figure it out, some audience members are just ahead of others due to their life experience, hobbies, etc…
Aigburth here. Kinda thought that too. Deffo knew something was up with the dialect.
@@LadyScaper interesting! But could you elaborate on the lyrics and the shots hinting at the end?
Great movie! Great recap! When Farley said Oliver was almost passing for “a real human boy”, I immediately thought of it as a Pinocchio reference.
Oliver is a pathological liar after all.
What do you imagine Farleigh thought as he looked on over a decade and finally saw Saltburn fall into the hands of Oliver?🤔 In the real world he likely would have lawyered up, and contested the will. Would Oliver have kept Duncan on the payroll as butler?
I agree with you 100% i think movie more about envy how envy can consumes us since envy is an emotion very difficult to admit to oneself oliver is a psychopath who dont understand love like you ,and i he is driven by his own selfish motivations because he couldnt have felix or become anything like him he want everything he had so that what made him became obsessed, and insane.
I know Oliver was a psychopath but I felt like the movie would’ve been better if he’d had an ounce of charm or likability
I like to think that oliver knew about eddie the friend who felix took to saltburn in the past so his plot was based around this opportunity.
See now that would make sense! Bc I enjoyed the movie as a whole but tbh the ending plot twist reveal of Oliver’s plot change the whole atmosphere of the film to me
The thing is, I didn’t think Oliver planned the whole thing. He makes too many mistakes and if Elspeth had died first he never would have gotten Saltburn.
Who waits 15 years for someone to naturally die off as a part of their “plan”? Both Venetia and Sir James had finally clocked him. Elspeth was the one that could still be manipulated. If Elspeth died in some car accident during the intervening decade and half, that seems like a pretty bad plan.
Oliver is a pathological liar and a habitual manipulator. The montage just confirms what we suspected about Oliver manipulating things. But manipulation is just his steady state, there is no long term goal.
Oliver is just telling himself he had a plan all along to justify everything he did and losing Felix. He could not lose the high of his manipulations finally being successful.
Everyone talking about how horrible Catton’s were is a bit excessive, in my opinion. The mother is a fairly superficial, but everyone is to an extent. It’s heightened in her personality but that’s understandable growing up in that environment. The father, I didn’t particularly find him to be bad, only detached from reality and maybe a bit desensitised and aloof. The daughter was plane sad and struggling with body image issues and conditional love. But so are lots of adolescent girls. Felix was pretty well adjusted considering his upbringing. Doesn’t care about social status, accepts friends outside his social circles. Invites Ollie over to his house and has empathy, shows kindness. The real evil one is Ollie, straight up psychopath.
I haven't finished this yet - and it is very good - but just one note. Driving an old Landrover isn't a great example of the upper classes trying to emulate the working class. Landrover Defenders are the vehicles you would most see the Queen driving when she was on holiday in Balmoral etc. It's a very British, posh boy thing to drive, even if that maybe seems very different to rich people in places like America.
Film is so great all the way thru and at the start i joked to my mate "who do i have to kill to get a house like that" i loved that the film answered its the entire family and the last scene is masterful
when he left the house the servants all ignored him and the butler knew when he stared at Oliver when they couldn't find Felix. Its like they were the only ones who knew Oliver was bad.
One of the employees waved goodbye in a snarky way. They definitely didn't like him and probably knew he was a snake...or rather a moth lol
This video actually made me appreciate the movie more...
I love this films so much emerald fennell is a genius as soon as i found out she was behind saltburn i knew it was gonna be a masterpiece her previous film promising young woman is one of my favorite and just as twisted ,and fantastic as this one i cant wait to see what she does next.
Except promising young woman sucked. It was horribleto say the least.
Amazing analysis as always ryan love your insights ,and the editing was fantastic 👏🏽👏🏽.
Just trying to process what the fuck I just watched…
I can’t tell you how happy I am that you guys are doing Saltburn!! Can’t wait to dive in 😀
By far, the BEST analysis I have seen yet. Too many people think that Oliver was in love with Felix but none of his behavior shows that. He wants to BE him and have what he has and unbeknownst to us he has been planning on having it from the moment he saw Felix and learned who he is.
Talented Mr. Ripley-like.
This movie reminded me a lot of TTMR.
As a bisexual male, I wholeheartedly disagree that Oliver wasn’t in love with Felix. Their dynamic is chock full of the delicate threads of desire that underpin a homoerotic friendship where one male is in the love, and the other loves the attention but doesn’t swing that way. Also, the director/writer herself confirmed Oliver was in fact in love with Felix.
But tell my what did Oliver did with Felix's grave? If he wasn't in love with Felix, why did he do that?
Have you noticed that at the end of the film, when Oliver mentioned he wasn't in love with Felix, he cried? Maybe he denied that he didn't love him in order to make himself feel better after having killed his lover.
Felix’s angel costume is almost reminiscent of Juliet’s angel costume from Romeo + Juliet. 😮!
Beautiful analysis, it always keeps me coming back
I just watched Saltburn last night, I still need to unpack it all so this is perfect timing
Thank you for explaining it! It has so many references!❤❤❤
Great film. You missed the foreshadowing with the razor blade being given to Oliver by Felix who cut himself with it before giving it to Venetia.
Good catch! I totally forgot about that.
When there is an estate like that in a movie, it is always about class.
This was amazing movie! Please do more breakdowns/reviews of these type of movies.
15:09 it’s funny you used this movie- where Pamela is “Daisy “ in this film .. I liked that
Loved this video!
As a person who currently makes like $38,000 a year full time at his current job killing himself and then I work 5 hours in a busy kitchen on Sundays and can barely afford to live, I know that all of this stuff with these rich people is just about status and it’s sickening
This was FANTASTIC! Good work!!
Great analysis, but you sort of left out all the sexuality in the film. The drinking of the bathwater is quite a sensual and sexual scene, that shows how obsessed and in love/lust he is with Felix. Oliver also knows that Farleigh is watching him and Venetia, and that he will tell Felix. This will allow Oliver to plant the seed of doubt towards Farleigh. And when Oliver f**ks the grave, it's sex. It is the only way he can consummate his relationship with Felix. He gave Felix one last chance at the Minotaur statue, but when Felix, without a hint of irony, says "You make my blood run cold," Oliver knows what has to been done. This is the catalyst that begins his complete destruction of the family. Also, he totally slit Venetia's wrists.
Also, no film critic is even discussing Pasolini's "Teorema" as a direct influence on this film!
Glad you did this, Saltburn was my fav film of 2023
Great vid!
I like to think the antlers are also a reference of barry's role in the killing of a sacred deer a movie where he does very similar things.
Liverpool is looked down on by the rest of England. It was/is a blue collar town that went through a steep "managed decline" from Thatcherism until joining the EU. Liverpudlians boo the national anthem and some say theyre "Scouse, not English." So it isn't totally out of nowhere that the upper crust thinks of them as a different country. In terms of population/area, Liverpool is comparable to Denver
Denver? Uhh no maybe try Texas as a state in comparison to the rest of the states
Finally I've been waiting for ur reaction to this
THANK YOU! I think many people hone in on details that they can’t see the forest for the trees. I agree that this is a much more nuanced take on a mistaken eat-the-rich narrative, and perhaps, that’s why many fail to see its brilliance. With the luxurious cinematography, it almost feels like and advertisement. It’s also a clever alluring nature of selling the “lower” classes why being rich is “great.” What this film acknowledges is something of a bigger problem, the advent of all consuming greed, not knowing when enough is enough. While the world deals with famine, pestilence, war and death, a few people keep getting richer and richer, billionaires. Oliver represents the kind of person that is never satisfied by his middle to upper crust status in the middle class because he’s ashamed of it so much that he’d lose his soul to amass greater wealth by any means kinda like another film, The Wolf of Wall Street. Belford hustled his way to the top consistently losing parts of his humanity to get richer. It wasn’t that he was poor, he just wanted MORE. Of course, he had to pay for his crimes, but even the rich don’t get punished like the rest. Who knows what’s next for Oliver? I’m sure there won’t be a sequel to address this already polarizing film. I really enjoyed it. It’s a dark and twisted comedy that racks up a body count by the end.
It's not greed. It's dependency. Take away their money to pay people to tie their shoes and they'd fall over getting out of bed. That's what makes their status so laughable.
Oliver is not jealous of the wealth, he is jealous of the lifestyle the wealth provides. As we see, his parents are relatively well off, but you know they've worked hard for everything they've got.
The Cattens awake to a prepared breakfast, which they take their time over, before a game of croquet, then lunch. Ollie's parent's had to cook, and eat breakfast and be out the door to make work for 9am.
The family dynamic is very much familiar to us English, despite the class differences, It all felt familiar to me.
18:08 - Am I missing a joke.... why did he say "scotch free" instead of scot-free???
lol...I noticed that too. Perhaps just because he is American.
I’m American too, and was confused by him saying Scotch free instead of Scot-free. We say “Scot-free” here.
I've been waiting for this video
Great breakdown. 👍🏾
This was the english version of parasite
Great breakdown!
Elspeth is a complete psycopath. The line about Pamela was definitely cold, but even when Felix was found dead, she was like "Dear, it's time for lunch!".
Almost like a modern Talented Mr. Ripley...
First thing that came to mind...
If you've ever watched the video for "Murder on the Dance Floor," (the song at the end) it adds an interesting dimension.
In it, the singer/protagonist, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, is in a dance competition, and she manipulates and even kidnaps judges, sabotages contestants, until she wins the contest.
I just thought it made for a nice parallel with similar vibes of someone who will do anything to win.
As for Ollie's horns, they didn't strike me as minotaur horns, but rather Pan-like horns. A trickster. Remember, Venetia's father nicknamed him "Spider Man".
Golden wings for shadow the fall (Icarus). The princess, who helps the hero and winds up in a tragic end.
24:20 also you can see on the news paper that oliver reads about sir james' death that the year is 2022
If you think about it the song also dates the scene in the movie, Time To Pretend came out in 2007. The song became popular a couple years later as well. You can say for a time period that song is the scheme the Cattons are performing.
Loved the breakdown
Isn’t Venetia innocent in all this? I can’t remember if she had any awful traits aside from her mental health and ED which isn’t her fault. She seemed more neutral and like go with the flow when she’s not trying to seduce her felix’s friends guests.
I thought Oliver was a real life demon
He 100% is. The line about them (the elite class) having no natural predators was top notch. You have to invite a demon to posses you. He was invited in and destroyed them
Another thing I’m surprised people aren’t commenting on is the Christ and angel imagery in the maze. Felix had angel wings and died in the center of the cross (from above) and Oliver had horns and was the bull/stag, and more demonic or brutal. Which makes me feel like Felix did have a savior complex but was also genuine and caring as a human in the end and Oliver was the opposite he came from a loving family but he was so tempted by power and greed that he became a demon.
Oliver seemed like a classic pathological liar who had too many successes with their lying.
A couple things: I’m pretty sure the movie takes place in 2002-2003, rather than 2006. If they’re welcoming the Class of 2006, then these are Freshmen who are arriving for their first year, which would be a few years earlier.
I think it’s more likely Oliver killed Venetian than she killed herself. I think she passed out in the tub, he slit her wrists, and he left the razor blade there.
I think the soundtrack and fashion is consistent with it being 06/07
@@simond5480 doesn’t make any sense though…why would they say “welcome class of ‘06” if it wasn’t freshman?
@@w.matthewgooch3207 I think class of 06 was their high school graduation so they would have been college freshmen in 2006-2007 school year.
@@gamerpaul89 all right, that makes sense.
@w.matthewgooch3207 The movie they are watching Superbad came out summer 2007. Also the Flo Rida “Low” song about Apple Bottom Jeans came out around that time as well. We originally thought they were in 02/03 at first watch for the same reason you did.
Also if Oliver left the razors, he ultimately led to her demise even if he didn’t physically do it for her. Dark stuff!
I was never moved by the trailers to this movie… in fact, I was a bit turned off.
This video, however, has piqued my interest completely! I appreciate the layered narrative, and even while knowing the entire plot here, I plan to watch, to digest the scripts nuance and craftsmanship of characterizations.
As always, Screencrush is the GOAT! 🐐💯
I think about Oliver’s intentions watching this movie over and over again.
Were these people his target? Did he have evil intent? No. It grew the longer he spent with them.
They treated him like crap. He began to hate them. He developed a manipulation that grew. That’s what I think anyway.
I get "The "Talented Mr. Ripley" vibes from this movie.
Because they had all the imagery of Henry and they're obviously related to the monarchy I thought it would turn out he was from an old other british royal family that had been dethroned maybe some saxon family and he was bringing back some old power taking techniques
Norman , they said in the beginning
Movie feels like a mix between killing of a sacred deer and call me by your name
I mean…the ending literally explains everything that happened throughout the film.
i guess it was never confirmed but it definitely seems like he killed her & made it look like a suicide
Finally a super hero movie not about multiverses.
Briana's additions were nice, thanks!
Fantastic insight into this brilliant thriller!
At the start of the film i thought that felix was kinda like a bit of a user and shit but then come to realise hes the only truly decent one
And at first oliver seems to be the most decent one who gets used and pushed aside or bullied maybe what drove him to be the other way round when he starts to get more accepted he becomes more and more stuck up and careless
Do we think Oliver took the money from Sir James before he was forced to leave Saltburn? And how much to sustain him until he anticipated Sir James’ death years later?
He definitely took the money. He didn’t plan or anticipate. He just saw the obituary 16 years later (James died in 2022) and realized Elspeth was vulnerable with James out of the way.
Americans don't understand the British aristocracy
New sub…you had me at Easter Eggs ✌🏻&❤
After watching this I'm not feeling relaxed, honestly saying I'm kinda feeling very odd , uneasy 😢 why ? Very sorry for poor felix
Profoundly disturbing movie. It clung to me like a damp, sour washcloth for days.
“You almost pass for a human, demon” - Felix’s gay cousin.
This wasn’t on my bingo card but I’ll take it
I wonder if in the pond scene they purposefully set up Felix and Oliver to face away from the manor. Felix faces away from the manor because he’s used to that life style. However, Oliver is looking at the people who stand in the way of him living that same life style forever.
Oh old jeep is not about coolness. Its a farmer countryside not frills practical only sort of mindset. Its a very british upper class thing thats always been there.
Theseus also travels to the Labyrinth in order to destroy the power complex Crete has over the Athenians.
beeeaaauuutiful details!!
I believe that you made a mistake regarding Farleigh's (not Fairly, as you pronounced the name) tuxedo comment. When saying Oliver 'is almost a real boy', he is referring to a potentially damaged or dangerous psyche. That is, as opposed to Farleigh having the beleif that only posh people are 'real people'. Otherwise Farleigh, in his currently necessitous state, would have dismissed his own mortality and existence.
Oliver is Lucifer . Theres a ton of imagery depicting light near or around Oliver . Many can interpret this as light means intelligence which Oliver is . But lights also symbolic of 'the light bringer' or , 'the morning star' IE Lucifer . Saltburn also sounds similar to Sulfur . One thing i would say this movie is about is it serves as a metafor for Satan infiltrating and taking over the kingdom of heaven .
I knew he was plotting but the flat tire trick was something else. I figured, but knowing he would sit there and do nothing but wait to get rescued is crazy! Not gonna mention the🐱blood?
Shit was gross. Dudes a good actor
Brilliant have watched it 3x and I could watch it again no problem
It was funny when he was banging the dirt lol
The Eternals backstory goes brazy
I just saw this comment and laughed. Realized I wrote it.
I don't know if it's just me, but I've never wanted a review to have subtitles so badly. All I can hear of the film scenes is mumble mumble mumble, and he keeps referring to them... 😅
I thought the film was a brilliant contemporary "grown up" movie, absolutely loved it! Thank you for the great analysis.