Amazon Prime VideoStruggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
Saltburn (2023) is set in 2006. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) attends Oxford University as a naive fresher with an inferiority complex and desire for company.Unafraid to test the boundaries of taste, genre, and audience expectations, she has crafted one of the most consistently challenging films of the year with Saltburn (2023). One could easily describe the themes presented here as a critique of the upper classes and how the uber-rich are bad people to be brought down to their knees.
The Saltburn mansion. For a majority of the film, which characters are “good” and “bad” is not blatantly obvious, and neither is the film’s primary conflict. Fennell spends a lot of time misleading the audience, only to reveal at the end the reality of how the film’s events unfolded. Spectators are made to feel uncomfortable (rather than the fear or disgust they would experience in a horror film), and in the same sense the film’s protagonist, Oliver, tricks the rest of the Catton family, Fennell dupes the viewers.
