Saltburn

[EachandEveryone]

On Amazon from today. I saw it at cinema now im going to watch it again. I enjoyed it but it is quite cringy in parts😃

Thought it was pretty awful. The premise was pretty good and I liked the first 20 minutes or so but after that I kept watching in the hope it would get better but it didn’t. The only likeable character was Felix.
What was the point of the scary butler? I was hoping that he would turn vengeful hero and kill the naked frolicking Oliver and chucking his pebble in the lake.

I watched it twice today cos I bloody loved it! Best thing I’ve seen in years! Loved the intensity and the ridiculousness of it all, bloody brilliant

Just finished it. Had to fast forward the grave scene as it was a bit too much. DH was asleep and he would have had a fit so it was just as well. I thought that on the whole it was weird.

Brilliantly bonkers. I’ve wanted to see this for months but was almost put off when eldest DS got a tad pearl clutching when I expressed an interest, telling me that there were several uncomfortable scenes. I read an online synopsis and between that and DS I could easily have believed that I was about to watch a film about the depths of depravity & sexual deviance 😂 There are moments of pure nonsense coupled with intense and uncomfortable scenes. I thought Oliver was a very cleverly written character although, as I am write this, I realise he reminds me of Tom Ripley (The Talented Mr Ripley). I felt that Richard E Grant was wasted in the film. His role could have been so much more. I’m confused slightly about Rosamund Pike’s character…was she always in love with Oliver? And did he have a role to play in her illness?

100% agree with this post. Brilliantly bonkers, hilarious in places with a few wtf moments. Very in keeping with everything I’ve seen, heard , experienced or read about those classes, Oxford etc and definitely ripley all over the place

It felt like a faux intellectual indie film for people that don’t watch independent intellectual films. There’s so so much better out there

I watched The Talented Mr Ripley a bit too young so thought Saltburn a fun, camp homage. Great soundtrack and Rosamund Pike was fantastic.

Truly disturbing belongs to Lars von Tier

Funny and ridiculous - I found it really entertaining. I enjoyed the echos of bridgehead/talented mr Ripley etc esp given that they reference Evelyn Waugh in the first 10 mins or so. Saw it at the cinema and the group responses to ‘the scenes’ were really funny. I look forward to whatever she chooses to do next - a great follow up to promising young woman.

Apart from fucking the grave what were the shocking scenes? I didn’t register them.

I thought it was a really playful look at the class system-the upper classes with their special ways of knowing what is what and that you ask how you like your eggs done and how they ultimately tend to see them selves as superior but it all got inverted in this because who runs off with the spoils? The working class lad who knows how to cheat, lie and murder, survival of the wiley. It was a very well done dark comedy in my opinion and Fennel did a greta job on it.

Weird not much mention of the bath plug scene. That turned my stomach more than the grave rape.

Good film though.

It was OK, a bit long, I didn't think it was particularly shocking apart from some of the acting.

Licking menstrual blood, drinking sperm in bathwater, dancing naked with a semi erection. It was fabulous 😍

I liked the start, thought the fucking the grave was a bit unnecessary and kind of killed it for me, I saw it at the movies and from the reaction I’d say most of the other people also thought the same.

Beforehand I thought it was going to be like Get Out, and it was the family and their behaviour that was going to be the disturbing part.

Didn't find it disturbing, a few gross scenes that was all.

He didn't have a semi did he??

Quite enjoyed it.

Definitely not shocking.

I actually found the earlier scenes a pretty accurate, if very heightened and exaggerated depiction of Oxford / general university life - both now and in the past. The party scenes looked very much like our current students’ photos from pubs and clubs.

And every one of the separate bodily fluids / naked japes scenes was easily true to life - so why not see them portrayed on screen?

Prescot was probably the most emotionally affecting thing. Jaw dropping acuity.

I laughed out loud once things ratcheted up. The cartoonish final quarter did underline that it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.

Mostly I loved the female gaze throughout. She’s a tremendously efficient film maker - but in the end the dialogue was just way too superficial to make for a truly satisfying film experience. .

Self-indulgent is a good description of this film. It was trying very hard to shock but came over a bit silly. Oliver was a bit Tom Ripley but nowhere near as interesting a character, and his motives were unclear. Barry Keoghan was also a good 10 years too old to play a freshman student. And despite the fact that the film was at least 15 minutes too long, the ending seemed rushed. All that said, it was well acted and certainly entertaining. 3 out of 5 if I'm being generous.

There were some quite slow bits, it would have been better if it was shorter by about half an hour, I watched it in two parts it was so long

Nicely acted, visually appealing and quite erotic.

I enjoyed it whilst realising that it was very light and poorly plotted (and some of the music wasn’t out when it was set).

It’s not Brideshead or Mr Ripley, more a fan fiction cross but, nonetheless, an enjoyable way of passing a couple of hours.

It was set in 2007 and by my checking all of the music was out when it was set. I loved it.

I googled when smoking was banned indoors - it was the year after 😁

I liked the premise, the film looked great, the acting was good but I didn’t like the story. I don’t think you’d pose as a scouse nerd if you plan to murder poshos for their fortune. I also wasn’t impressed with the idea that working class/ lower middle class people accessing oxbridge and country houses are parasites, destroying the rightful recipients. The irony being the director wouldn’t be getting to make these films at all if she was from Ollie’s background.

I think Emerald Fennell acknowledges her own privilege, but where are her sympathies and where are ours? Does she want us to acknowledge how awful Ollie is or how awfully entitled the Catton's are? Ultimately I don't care about any of them... which is never a good place to be!

Not sure I’d recommend it as it was just a bit daft. It borrowed from Waugh and Highsmith but without much style. The cast were good, especially Rosamund Pike. But overall, it was meh.

I enjoyed the comedy of it and it captured that ultra confidence that the upper class typically have and yet they were vulnerable. It's also a simple story of revenge on some level against Fairley's constant put downs against Felix's rejection, but maybe against the class system itself that sizes up people like Oliver and firmly puts them in his place. I found it quite Shakesperean.
Did anyone spot the Felix look alike walk past the window during the breakfast scene as they were talking about dopplegangers and how they fireshadown someone's death?
It also reminded me of The Go Between from the 70s where a young boy goes to stay at the country estate of his school friend but feels like an outsider and many of the shots of flowers and nature reminded me of that film.