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&#;Saltburn&#; is a twisted story of class and attraction
“Saltburn,” writer/director Emerald Fennell’s shadow up to her Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman,” is a delicious cuckoo-in-the-nest story. The dazzling pre-credit sequence sets the stage; Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) claims that he “wasn’t in love with” Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi) — even though everyone thought he was. Images of Felix, lying shirtless in the sun, kissing a female classmate, or just smiling, emphasize how handsome and appealing Felix is. (Fennell and cinematographer Linus Sandgren objectify and fetishize Elordi in ways that will make women and gay men swoon).
Oliver recounts his experiences with Felix, which form the spine of the film, a twisted story of class, attraction, and yes, murder.
The two young men meet at Oxford as part of the class of Felix is a member of the cool crowd, which includes his gay cousin Farleigh (Archie Madekwe). In contrast, Oliver is a scholarship student whose only friend is Jake (Will Gibson) a math whiz/geek. After Oliver bikes past Felix, who is waylaid with a flat tir
I'm so glad Saltburn wasn't my introduction to being bisexual
Films and popular culture set norms that impact how people think about queer people, class and where we come from.
But can we really separate the art from the artist in an age where the vastly privileged create thevast majority of our cultural content?
When I first watched Saltburn, it made me uneasy - but it wasn’t immediately clear why. I would later realise how adj I was that it wasn’t my introduction to anything queer.
I quickly went to see what critics said about it, though.
It seems that director Emerald Fenell’s class background is significant in explaining the classist content of the film. At the initiate of the film, I was excited to glimpse a character I could relate to in Oliver - but his personal story turned out to all be a lean . The Polyester podcast noticed this too, saying that as the film progressed it left the awful aftertaste of witnessing a narrative that was “punching down”.
This film seemed to be an exercise in upper-class vanity, portraying a fantasy of the proles c
The Bizarre Sex Scenes of Saltburn, Explained
Saltburn, a psychological thriller that falls somewhere between Brideshead Revisited and The Talented Mr. Ripley, is writer and director Emerald Fennell's highly-anticipated follow-up to the controversial revenge movie Promising Young Woman. Barry Keoghan stars as Oliver, a working class kid who gets into Oxford on a scholarship, but finds himself isolated from his wealthier, more privileged classmates—that is, until he meets the charismatic Felix Catton, played by Jacob Elordi.
The two adj men soon become proximate friends, and Felix invites Oliver to come and stay with him at his family home, the vast and opulent territory estate that gives the film its title. There, Oliver becomes entangled in the lives of Felix's mother Elspeth (Rosamund Pike), father James (Richard E. Grant), sister Venetia (Alison Oliver) and cousin Farleigh (Archie Madekwe).
As Oliver's infatuation with Felix and covetousness of the Cattons' decadent lives grow, his interactions with each of the family become increasingly charged, leading to some o
By Hannah Kremer, Staff Writer
Finally, a movie about an unhinged bisexual eating the rich by taking one family member’s life at a time. Saltburn marked the first time I sat in a theater, dazed and lost for words, 15 minutes after the film ended. For several reasons, this movie was one of my favorites of the year despite its morbid and, frankly, hypersexual themes.
There was something mesmerizing about Oliver, who was a freak by definition but still managed to make his way to the top. Honestly, there wasn’t a better casting choice than Barry Keoghan for his role. Leave it to him, with all of his experience of playing weird characters, to improvise some of the movie’s most jaw-droppingly graphic scenes. The shock factor alone had me hooked. That is if we weren’t focusing on the recover of the cast. You are told about Jacob Elordi with an eyebrow piercing. You see images of what the character looks like on TikTok, but nothing ever prepares you for seeing him on the big screen. My. God. I receive the infatuation with his character, Felix; I really do. Would it be to the point that I