Many people watching “Saltburn” are finding it disturbing

Marys!

These are the people claiming to be traumatized. Women.

It's supposed to be a black comedy, so many of the filmgoers may be surprised to see a white cast.

Isn't disturbance the point of going to see a psychological thriller?

Or did everyone just expect a 2 hour TikTok of Jacob Elordi looking pretty?

Is it a thriller? I wouldn’t classify this as a thriller.

It’s made its way to Prime already. I was surprised to see it. Gonna watch it today.

What’s so disturbing about it? Spoilers please!

R6 Is it free to prime members?

R8 yes. They announced they would add it to Prime video streaming weeks ago, shortly after the movie came out. I said that is exactly why people don’t go see movies in theaters anymore unless it’s something highly anticipated or overly hyped like Barbie, because they know these movies come to streaming within a month.

It was gratuitously vulgar. The scene with Oliver and the draining bathtub?! Yuck....

Everything disturbs the under-30 crowd.

I am way over 30.

Looking forward to a rewatch now that it's streaming.

It was one of the most engaging films I've seen in a long time

The Talented Mr. Brideshead

I thought it was fun. There was some ridiculously OTT scenes and a few eww moments but generally fun and I'll never listen to Murder on the Dancefloor in the same way again

It was SO disturbing that it’s #1 on Prime.

Well yeah. People are talking about it which is getting people to watch. It’s a hit.

Eating out bloody pussy was gross, not particularly disturbing. Fucking a gravesite was funny (and a little bit hot).

Barry's ass makes up for his face.

Great mid 00s soundtrack to it.

I thought the bathtub thing was something like getting fisted, or getting bukakeed (sp?) on.. it sounds hot until you do it then it seems silly and gross.

R18 Just no. Gross.

[quote] Everything disturbs the under-30 crowd.

It’s not the younguns that are complaining about this film, it’s the old farts.

It’s both.

Pretentious, overthought drivel. Emerald Fennel needs to have a think.

Emerald Fennel is from a wealthy old money family, and she is an Oxford graduate. She is satirizing herself and her own family. She is self-loathing, and rightfully so.

They’ll get over it.

If you're such a delicate flower that a movie like this is "disturbing," you are too delicate to live in this world.

The movie is all about style and no substance. The lazy script doesn't even begin to show why the Elordi character would be so invested in his supposedly poor friend. Simply doesn't work as either a comedy or a drama.

R29 actually it’s very obvious why he’s invested to those of us who are intelligent and don’t need to be spoonfed shit. It’s all very obvious.

[quote][R29] actually it’s very obvious why he’s invested to those of us who are intelligent and don’t need to be spoonfed shit. It’s all very obvious.

Hey r30 - for those of us who can't be bothered to watch it, tell us so we can continue to follow the conversation.

It's like Brideshead Revisited as if Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote and directed it.

A lovely confection of decadence, debauchery and death.

Should have been titled 90 Days of Sodom.: Saloburn.

Loved the scene with the bloody devil's doorbell.

But it was predictable.

Though she says it was not inspired by “The Talented Mr. Ripley, there is a lot of it there.

I just watched it and enjoyed it for what it was. Some of the dialogue was hard to get - I had no idea why the cousin was originally tossed out of the house. All I heard was “Sotheby’s.”

Keoghan goes on my ugly hot list with Cillian Murphy and Jeremy Allen White.

R33 she didn’t say it wasn’t inspired by it. It was inspired by the Alain Delon version. Not the remake.

r33 Oliver took Farleigh's phone and emailed Sotheby's to say that he had some rare plate or something to sell. He set Farleigh up to look like a thief who was stealing from the family.

Spoiler warning: I just saw it today, and can't see all the brilliant class-based satire everyone's going on about. It was, essentially, "If Nick Caraway was serial killer." But it flagged that Oliver was a psychopath very, very early. The rich people were too concerned with their own edginess to pick up on it until Felix tried to do something nice for him by taking him to see his mother. After that he totally got it, which was why he had to go.

P.S. If Nick Caraway was a serial killer and those were his victims, who would really care? And the same applies in this movie.

[quote]The Talented Mr. Brideshead

Perfect.

Euphoria is not exactly family programming. Why would his fans be shocked?

R39 Euphoria has nothing to do with this movie.

I was just referring to the statement in the OP stating that his fans may want to “think again” before watching as it could be disturbing. Sorry about that.

[quote]But it flagged that Oliver was a psychopath very, very early.

I think this is a really good point; maybe its because of his previous roles or unconventional looks, but BK just seems like the kind of guy that kills cats for fun. In the Talented Mr. Ripley, Damon's blandness worked perfectly because he was so bland, so unthreatening that no one took him seriously, much less viewed him as any kind of threat. I liked Saltburn for the beauty & decadence of it all, but it just seemed like it was aping other movies/stories that did it better rather than coming up with something new.

Oh noes, people are disturbed by a disturbing film. Wonder if the writer and director knew this?

It was obvious from the beginning that something was very wrong with Oliver. The movie had some fun cheap thrill moments, but was flaccid for the most part. The most interesting scene was when Oliver was back at his very middle-class home and his self-created mystique just seemed so bland and peanut butter sandwich under his mother and father's gaze. But the psychological complication of Oliver wasn't as important to the movie as the cartoon-like villainy.

It tries too hard to be transgressive. And it’s a Patricia Highsmith ripoff to boot. I wish Emerald Fennell would go back to playing a closeted lesbian in Call the Midwife. That was fun.

She was great as Midge in Barbie

R42 Barry Keoghan got his big break on an Irish TV show called Love/Hate...for shooting a cat

She looked great at last night

Even in Mr Ripley, Ripley's first crime was opportunistic, and the subsequent ones were cover-ups for the first one and the consequences he pursued from it.

In Saltburn, Oliver appears to have coveted what Felix had from the start and deliberately wormed his way into a position where, with some work, he could have it all. All of the murders, even the first one, were planned in advance to get him what he wanted. When he told Venetia he was a vampire, he bloody meant it.

[quote] The most interesting scene was when Oliver was back at his very middle-class home and his self-created mystique just seemed so bland and peanut butter sandwich under his mother and father's gaze.

And this scene in particular is what will earn Keoghan an Oscar nomination, and possibly the Oscar itself. He proved right here what a stunning performance he can give. The way he changed "Olivers" in every scene was nothing less than incredible.

For me, I loved the movie. I didn't know what to expect (watched it on Prime last night) but was totally invested in it from beginning to end. I'll be surprised if it does not pick up a number of nods, if not Awards come Oscar night. Perfectly cast, and a great psychological thriller. The only thing that could have possibly made this film better was if it took place in the mid-80s and used 80s music on the soundtrack.

For those who found it 'disturbing', there's always a Supehero movie playing somewhere on your television.

Pearls, clutched.

Song fool yourself, OP, women want to see cock too.

They do realize it is a movie and not a documentary, right?

Enjoyed this movie. It’s not a “thriller” but I’d call it a “cringer”. I know I cringed quite a bit.

Anyone can’t handle this, try lighter fare like “Down Low” with Zachary Q.

Nobody is saying why exactly it is disturbing and a cringer. We want spoilers!

Spoiler alert!

Felix's death, for me at least, happened too abruptly. One minute he's alive and the next we see his coffin and the funeral.

I thought I understood the story. but how and when did he die?

And did Oliver kill the sister or drive her to suicide?

And did he kill the patriarch or just the mother?

Oliver put some (unnamed) drugs in the champagne bottle, r55, drank it, made himself throw up and left it with Felix, r55. Yes, he killed the sister ans the mohter but apparently not the father. All these consecutive deaths would alert Helen Keller.

It is an entertaining and well acted movie but derivative and full of flaws. The relationship between Felix and Oliver is undercooked and ends to abruptly. But to me the major issue that pulls the movie apart is how unconvincing it is that the mother falls for Oliver, to the point of inviting him back many years later. Sure, he makes some snide remarks about her friends and mimics some of their behavior to get her approval , but plotwise this is a void since everything is pinned down on it. It may have worked with an attractive actor, like Alan Delon or Terence Stamp.

Also, although there is some satire to certain (exaggerated) behavior of the aristocracy, the movie is actual quite reactionary: Beware of the killer plebs.

I liked the Pan and sex/blood magic nods.

[quote]Yes, he killed the sister

R56 Exactly how did he kill the sister ? Wasn't she found in a bloody bath to make it look like suicide ?

As far as Felix - yes, it shows at the end n his flashbacks how Oliver turned around and self-induced vomiting to get the alcohol out of his system, and left Felix with the bottle. But never shows how he killed the sister.

Obviously faked suicide or chaos magic!

R58, there is a-flashback of him near the bathtub handling razors…

R56 I agree that the relationship dynamics between Oliver and the mother should have been fleshed out more so that the re-connection later on makes better sense.

[quote]Felix's death, for me at least, happened too abruptly. One minute he's alive and the next we see his coffin and the funeral.

And soon after, we see Oliver's naked ass fucking the dirt of Felix's newly buried grave.

Just like a baby Trump, a sadistic paraphiliac.

Every action, every thought, every objective oriented to a foundational perverse sexual gratification, opaque to everyone else.

Guess they were disturbed by felching from the bathtub.

He may not be popular here (I like him)), but Andrew Sullivan has good take on the film

Well as a Gay Catholic apologist, Milky Loads certainly knows of the paraphilia perversions of society that lurk under the surface of normality.

R18 Bahhh that's where I draw the line. The first of the two, and I'm a woman. I don't mind the rest that was mentioned.

R56, I think we are meant to believe that when she runs into him again in the coffee shop and he looks well groomed and prosperous, she is first thinking of him as a respectable son-substitute because she connects him to her boy. Of course I have no doubt that in time he sexually seduced her too.

I hugely enjoyed this movie for what it was on its own terms as colorful, mean-spirited fun. And I loved the crude, disreputable, free-floating eroticism of it. Was crazy about Keoghan’s nude dance, an instant classic and the perfect way to end the movie.

I see it as an entertainment and perhaps something of a guilty pleasure, considering how derivative it is. But the sheer enmity and hatred it has aroused in all the major critics and ‘serious’ cineasts is absolutely over-scaled. It may be a reaction to Fennell’s first, possibly over-praised directing effort, but the loathing and bashing is so unhinged as to be suspect. Plenty of bad movies which are a lot less fun have gotten more respect. And it has caused me to praise and embrace “Saltburn” every chance I get.

Did Oliver blow Felix before Felix drove him to his parent's home? I thought I saw a brief image of this the night before the trip.

R66, interesting post. I don’t hate it at all, as i said i thought it was very entertaining and god knows we need movies like this, to discuss and criticize. Erotic, controversial, all good. Having said this, i still think the plot was lazy or undercooked, specially to what I mentioned between Oliver and the Mother. I also think that Barry gave it all in a very good performance but was fundamentally miscast in physical terms. I don’t see any of the cast being beguiled by him. And the script does not fill this lack, which physical attraction could.

Finally, please correct me if i am wrong but i never jerked off in a bathtub, there is no elbow/arm room. This was a very female thing.

r56, if you put r56 in the body of your post, we don't have to scroll to find what you said.

r64

[quote]there is a-flashback of him near the bathtub handling razors…

It was when he sang Epiphany from Sweeney Todd that I was alerted.

I told my MAGA sister to watch it because I wanted to see what she would say. She called me the next day, outraged that I would ask her to watch "such trash." She said she turned it of after the bathtub scene.

I pretty much predicted that. :-)

I love you, r71. Fancy being part of a throuple?

Every MAGA turd should watch a guy drinking another guy's cum out of a bathtub.

You know they're going to show that clip at the Oscars as part of a montage and nobody who hasn't seen the film will get it.

An equally weird/disturbing/shocking movie is Down Low. Has anyone else seen it? I watched it on an airplane and was cringe-beyond-belief.

r73, the very definition of "cumming in chunks".