Is saltburn a gay movie
Spoilers!
Just to give this film its gay creds right off the bat, there's a scene in which Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) espies Felix (Jacob Elordi), masturbating in the bath. When Felix leaves their common bathroom, Oliver, watching the water (and other stuff) drain, bends down and drinks some of the spunk-enhanced bath water. It's a unique scene in a movie that could have been a contender -- but isn't quite.
Saltburnhas been called Brideshead Revisitedmeets The Talented Mr. Ripley, and that's accurate, up to a point. Operational class scholarship student Oliver arrives at Oxford in 2006 and encounters aristocratic Felix. Very much the outsider, Oliver has no friends except for a quite mad maths genius, whose outburst in the dining hall at the start of the motion picture lets us know that madness lies this way. After a number of encounters with Felix Catton, Oliver is invited to Saltburn, the Catton estate. We meet the eccentric inhabitants of Saltburn, commencement with Paul Rhys as Duncan the butler. Rhys, one of the superb British actors (I saw him play Uncle Vanya on stage), seems to be channelling Bela Lugosi in Night Mon
The college movie has historically been straight-coded. In North America, they tend to follow frat boys and their bond with boobs and beer. In Britain, these films are, the odd exception (The Riot Club) aside, pretty but desperately uptight. Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, the new movie from the maker of Promising Young Woman starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi, feels different. Her campus movie dredges up something curious: the strange and obsessive byproducts of pent-up testosterone; of male brotherhood in extremity. Or, of what happens when straight male friendship gets so intense that the committed parties start acting a little queer , like that viral video of the topless guys in their back garden smashing garden chairs on each other’s backs.
In Saltburn, Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) is a operational class boy studying at Oxford University on a scholarship. He is manual smart but socially witless and struggles to make friends. From afar he watches Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), the sun at the centre of the school’s social circle, who every lady wants to peck and every lad wants to be friends with. He’s handsome, aristocratic and has an eyebrow piercing, and so Oliver, n
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 make thevast majority of our cultural content?
When I first watched Saltburn, it made me uneasy - but it wasn’t immediately clarify why. I would later realise how glad 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 start of the movie, I was excited to notice a character I could relate to in Oliver - but his personal story turned out to all be a stretch. The Polyester podcast noticed this too, saying that as the film progressed it left the bad aftertaste of witnessing a narrative that was “punching down”.
This film seemed to be an exercise in upper-class vanity, showing a fantasy of the proles coming for them and their wealth. It felt significant to see Oliver’s character regurgitate the trope
By Hannah Kremer, Staff Writer
Finally, a film about an unhinged bisexual eating the rich by taking one family member’s life at a time. Saltburn marked the first period I sat in a theater, dazed and lost for words, 15 minutes after the motion picture ended. For several reasons, this film 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 superior. 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 rest of the cast. You are told about Jacob Elordi with an eyebrow piercing. You see images of what the ethics looks like on TikTok, but nothing ever prepares you for seeing him on the giant screen. My. God. I get the infatuation with his character, Felix; I really do. Would it be to the point that I would beverage his bathwater? Oliver would. As for me? Maybe not, but I would probably combust into fl