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scorndotexe · 11 months ago

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I hate fake freaks, why the hell are people freaking out about the grave scene in Saltburn? I haven’t even seen the fucking movie and even I know it’s supposed to be symbolic/thematic/representative WHATEVER

nah anon you've got it wrong i need it to be about 30-75% more intense. there should have been actual necrophilia. cannibalism too actually. also no shitty twist at the end so the symbolism of the acts remains relevant. i know you havent seen it but jesus christ it was such a bad film

anyway people are freaking out because they don't actually care about the themes or symbolism of saltburn they just want to be like "ooooh this film is sooo fucked up oh my god emerald fennell is a sick sick woman."

#wrong ask to send me hfdjkshfg #i loveee the symbolism dont get me wrong but i'm here wishing there was more fucked up shit #saltburn was NOTHING in terms of fucked up films. i've watched more fucked up films on an average tuesday. and enjoyed them more #because they're better constructed #i do think one of the faults of the grave scene. if we're talking about it divorced from the "ohhh this film is so fucked up'' thing. is #that it has no real thematic relevance. same with the bathtub scene #i cannot appropriately discuss them within the context of the film in the way i want to (about whether they went far enough) because #the last act of the film negates everything we've seen so far #not in terms of lying to us. but in terms of oliver's motivations #and it makes so many of oliver's actions entirely unnecessary #it's entirely inconsistent #''ohhh but he's an unreliable narrator''#that still doesn't make it a well constructed narrative about an unreliable narrator #yes he's an unreliable narrator. and then he goes and tells us what the audience has already figured out.#it's sloppy. it's sloppy writing.#it doesn't trust the audience enough for that aspect. and i'm not sure if making an oliver an unreliable narrator on that second layer #even *was* intentional #anyway anon all of this is for people who have seen the film not you #asks

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