Saltburn

[Elthamjohn]

I can’t decide what I thought of this.

It just seemed like exactly the sort of thing that I would enjoy.

Rosamund Pike and Richard E Grant were brilliant. It was entertaining. I enjoyed all the references to Waugh and The Go-Between and The Talented Mr Ripley…

… but I am fairly sure that I would not watch it again. How did you find it?

Loved this! Only thing that annoyed me was that BK was way too old to play his character. Everything else was completely perfect!

Lots of vibes from other films, especially The Talented Mr Ripley, but I felt that was deliberate.

Assuming the borrowing of other plots/motifs was a deliberate choice, though, what was the point of it? I can see the point of referencing previous stories if you’re going to do something new with them, but what was this film adding to Talented Mr Ripley, Brideshead, Kind Hearts and Coronets etc?

I've just watched it - what did he get out of it, really? An old yet lovely house that would be hellish to keep up. No friends/society. Which he'd been plotting for from the very beginning, with the bike scene. Marrying into the family would have got a better role for him. Needed the end scene for some lightish relief after that!

Some great performances but the storyline basically a bit rubbish. No autopsies? Cost of keeping up an old house once owned? Nah. It's a no from me.

I thought the Britpop bit didn’t work from a timeline point of view. She had a 20 year old in 2006 so wouldn’t have been gallivanting in the 90s!

I did enjoy it a lot, though. I was at Magdalen a few years before the film was set, and Ros Pike was at Oxford at the same time.

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One thing that wasn’t clear to me was Carey Mulligan’s character. Was Oliver involved with her death? I didn’t think so as he seemed surprised when RP mentioned going to her funeral

No, she was there to show the family how shallow they were and how when they get bored of their friends they just discard them.

I was at Brasenose in 2007. It's so wonderful to watch. Many of my friends lived like this.

The director Emerald Fennell was in Call the Midwife

I was trying to work out what I'd seen her in

I thought it was shite 😆 really underwhelming.

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Just finished it (took 2 sittings) and thought it was brilliant. I read on Wikipedia that Barry Keoghan lost his mother to drugs at the age of 12 and spent 7 years in foster care in 13 different homes. How wonderful to watch him gallivanting naked around a mansion and starring opposite the likes of Richard E Grant and Rosamund Pike. He's been nominated for a Golden Globe for the role. I hope he gets it.

Jacob Elordi though……..

I loved it, brilliant film

Pamela always was an attention seeker

Thank God someone said it 🙌I thought it was awful, and DH who is usually a fan of weird films, said “well, that’s 2 hours of my life I’ve just wasted”

Best line of the film when Rosamund Pike explained that Mulligan's character had died...

"She'd do anything to get attention."

Was Oliver so upset when Felix discovered he was not from a drug addict family as he was scared he wouldn't be able to get his own way with the house or was there some attraction there? He says he hated Felix but there was something sexual...was he turned on by Felix himself or just killing him?

As a middle class girl who went to private school and was not let in by the old money set...I thought it rang true. Later on in life my therapist said they see a lot of ex private school kids.
I thought it demonstrated that the upper classes are just as messed up as Oliver's fictional drug addicted scouse family.

I watched the kermode mayo review and just think Simon mayo is a 'bit lacking' in his critique skills. He didn't enjoy the film but can't say why.

Mark is as brilliant as ever. It's basically a vampire movie and Saltburn is their lair.

BK has already won a BAFTA and been nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Banshees of Inisherin @DecafOatMilkCappucino.

Were the family actually ‘users’, though? Or is that just a premise of the genre that the film was subverting?

The ‘She’d do anything to get attention’ line follows Oliver putting that idea into Rosamund Pike’s head. It gives us an early indication of how much control he has over her, and makes the ending plausible.

I'm interested in knowing what Oliver's looks at Carey Mulligan's character were for. He gave a look - that could be interpreted as sympathetic - at the dinner table when she was talking about her chaotic life. Then seems concerned at her death.

Considering he tirned out to be a tad psychotic that seemed out of sorts. (Well at the dinner we weren't privy to that yet, I don't think.)

Such a marmite film.

My OH was bored to death and hated it. I thought it was a masterpiece and very entertaining.

I'm left with a lot of questions though

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How much had Oliver pre-planned? Surely Felix insisting Oliver visit his parents couldn't be pre-planned? Yet that was the catalyst for Felix turning on him.

No autopsies? No investigations? All so unrealistic.

The obsession and psychopath elements were brilliant but the farcical ending let it down.

@SapphosRock - definitely very marmite! I note The Times is doing a survey on what people think of it - 49% for and 51% against when I last looked.

4 adults watched it here - 3 of us loved it and 1 was quite meh. We were talking about it for days afterwards though - surely the mark of a good film?

I'm not sure what genre it is. I would call it Black Comedy/Gothic - but whatever I think it's sufficiently outrageous to require suspension of disbelief and not over-analyse the credibility of things that happen.

I absolutely loved it. It was just so enthralling. I know people who've watched it 2 or three times! Will be interesting to see if it wins any awards.

I enjoyed it and really liked the last scene. I do wander if people do actually throw parties like that. Looked amazing :)

@SapphosRock I would guess the cost back to oliver parents was not planned and went against Oliver's plans to work into his way into Felix's affections and his family