![]() ![]() Both the professor and Farleigh, the only other student in the tutorial, try to hide their extreme boredom. But there’s a lot more to discuss.Įarly in the Oxford portion of Saltburn, Oliver reads an essay to his professor. And the puppet box would seem to refer to the fact Oliver played the puppeteer, engineering the downfall of the family and his eventual ownership of their wealth. The way a hunter might mount the heads of slain beasts. The four stones he has on the puppet box, the stones that were part of the Catton tradition to mourn the dead, aren’t there in memory of Felix, Venetia, Sir James, and Elspeth. He doesn’t, for a second, feel bad or shy about the path he took, the family he abandoned, the murders he committed. His nude dance through the house is a wanton display of possession. The simplest way to view Saltburn’s ending is as a celebration. The final scene is Oliver, alone in the house, dancing room to room, completely naked, in celebration of his possession. In answer to that question of “But wasn’t I in love with him?” Oliver explains that he actually hated Felix. It’s a continuation of the film’s opening where Oliver ponders if he was in love with Felix. We do have the brief bit where Oliver provides exposition to Elspeth before removing her breathing tube. Having become Elspeth’s caretaker, Oliver inherits the entire estate. First Felix, then Venetia, followed by Sir James, and, lastly, Elspeth. The end of Saltburn begins in the aftermath of Oliver’s successful takeover of Saltburn through the systematic annihilation of the Catton family. Farleigh (Felix’s Cousin) – Archie Madekwe.Sir James (Felix’s father) – Richard E.Elspeth (Felix’s mother) – Rosamund PIke.Venetia Catton (Felix’s sister) – Alison Oliver.Which is very much an issue in our modern era where everyone’s on social media and constantly bombarded with curated images of lifestyles above and beyond your own. For Oliver, it’s to have that thing you see others have. For Bateman, it was a yearning to fit in, to stand with his peers, even as he raged about them. Emerald Fennell’s Oliver Quick is like American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman. Specifically, about the pursuit of style over substance. And even though it’s set in 2006/2007, it’s about now. American Psycho is based on a 1991 novel that took a similar but much more exaggerated look at the emerging Wall Street Bro culture of the late-80s. And many Zuckerbergian-figures have emerged in the years since. Workaholics have always existed, of course, but The Social Network was commentary on the zeitgeist of the mid-to-late aughts. Both movies are portraits of their times.įor example, while The Social Network was ostensibly about the creation of Facebook, it was really a glass-half-empty look at an archetype of Millennial culture: the young Internet-age entrepreneur who sacrifices personal relationships in the pursuit of digital-business glory. Rather, I’d say Saltburn is like 2010’s The Social Network or 2001’s American Psycho. ![]() Except I wouldn’t recommend that reading. Felix and the Catton family represent the top-end ultra-wealthy. One way to read Saltburn is, like Parasite, as a film focused on economic class disparities. ![]()
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