After a not-quite unintended encounter, an unassuming Oxford scholar named Ollie (Barry Keoghan) befriends a well-liked classmate, the good-looking and rich Felix (Jacob Elordi). Felix invitations Ollie to spend the summer time with him at Saltburn, his eccentric household’s opulent mansion within the English countryside. Homicide and insanity ensue.
Critics appropriately famous that Amazon Prime Video’s Saltburn bears a placing resemblance to a different movie that depicts an ingratiating younger man’s quest for social acceptance (and it is a gentle spoiler to say this, so be warned): The Gifted Mr. Ripley. However so far as the movie’s message is anxious, the critics wildly missed the mark, describing Saltburn as an eat-the-rich comedy that “skewers” the ultra-wealthy and rejoices in “class war.”
This interpretation couldn’t be extra unsuitable. Felix and his household are usually not villains—they’re victims of scheming outsiders who covet all they’ve and search to destroy it. If something, the wealthy individuals within the movie are toonice and beneficiant; they need to have thrown Ollie out on day one. Overlook Ripley; Saltburn has rather more in widespread with the critically acclaimed however broadly misinterpreted Parasite, through which a rich Korean family is preyed upon by a lower-class household (the eponymous parasites). Each movies are, if something, reactionary, one thing nearly nobody appears to have observed.