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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 383137" data-attributes="member: 8">SALTBURN (2023)[ATTACH=full]49920[/ATTACH]Story-wise I don&#039;t think it&#039;s possible to put any spoilers in this review. If you&#039;ve seen trailers or just the first three minutes of this film then you know what you&#039;re going to get.After I had watched the film I wondered how it compares to the fourth season of Carolyn Kepnes&#039; YOU which also takes place in England&#039;s high society.Predictability can also have a good effect on my viewing experiences as I&#039;m less focused on the &quot;what&quot; and more on the &quot;how&quot;.And the &quot;how&quot; in SALTBURN certainly doesn&#039;t disappoint.Rosamund Pike as matriarch Elspeth Catton&#039;s character description of family friend Poor Dear Pamela is priceless. If everything else in this film had failed then at least there&#039;s still that.Pamela herself looks like a Nina Hagen-played-by-Helena Bonham Carter (but played by Carey Mulligan) and this underlines the wealthy and very priviliged family&#039;s desire to dabble in faux-bohemianism every now and then.Oliver Quick is the &quot;invisible&quot; blue-collar classmate of Catton heir Felix and of course it doesn&#039;t take long before he worms his way into the world of the quasi-casual yet oh-so-snobby aristocrats.At the same time it&#039;s the aristocrats themselves who think they&#039;ve found a new exotic thing to play with. To be fair, it&#039;s only at the end of the film that it becomes perfectly clear how calculated Oliver had been. Personally I didn&#039;t need to know that because the moments of ambiguity work really well in this story, and it&#039;s interesting that the most disturbing scene happens in the home of Oliver&#039;s family.I think this film is beautifully shot, very very well acted&nbsp; and also incredibly funny in some unexpected moments. The film poster looks very modern&nbsp; - a mix of &quot;Babylon&quot; and &quot;Everthing Everywhere All At One&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 383137, member: 8"] SALTBURN (2023) [ATTACH type="full" alt="1703340688533.png"]49920[/ATTACH] Story-wise I don't think it's possible to put any spoilers in this review. If you've seen trailers or just the first three minutes of this film then you know what you're going to get. After I had watched the film I wondered how it compares to the fourth season of Carolyn Kepnes' YOU which also takes place in England's high society. Predictability can also have a good effect on my viewing experiences as I'm less focused on the "what" and more on the "how". And the "how" in SALTBURN certainly doesn't disappoint. Rosamund Pike as matriarch Elspeth Catton's character description of family friend Poor Dear Pamela is priceless. If everything else in this film had failed then at least there's still that. Pamela herself looks like a Nina Hagen-played-by-Helena Bonham Carter (but played by Carey Mulligan) and this underlines the wealthy and very priviliged family's desire to dabble in faux-bohemianism every now and then. Oliver Quick is the "invisible" blue-collar classmate of Catton heir Felix and of course it doesn't take long before he worms his way into the world of the quasi-casual yet oh-so-snobby aristocrats. At the same time it's the aristocrats themselves who think they've found a new exotic thing to play with. To be fair, it's only at the end of the film that it becomes perfectly clear how calculated Oliver had been. Personally I didn't need to know that because the moments of ambiguity work really well in this story, and it's interesting that the most disturbing scene happens in the home of Oliver's family. I think this film is beautifully shot, very very well acted and also incredibly funny in some unexpected moments. The film poster looks very modern - a mix of "Babylon" and "Everthing Everywhere All At One". [/QUOTE]

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