Okay it's here! My review of Saltburn has finally gone up at Pajiba this afternoon -- click here to read my thoughts on a movie that very well might've been made in a factory for me. I want to be Emerald Fennell's friend so bad. This movie is wild and wicked and furious as fuck -- it's a pervert's paradise I tell you, and I love every frame.
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Great review! I saw the film yesterday, adored it and was baffled by the venom of the New York Times review (which btw got a few details wrong). Your Teorema mention is spot on--and isn't it great to see Mulligan playing a variation on the Pike role in An Education?
Oh god I haven't read the Times review yet, I will have to force myself to go do that. I purposefully kept myself from reading any other reviews until I finished mine, which I only did this morning. But I did know of a couple of critics, ones I like even, who hate the movie. And I have to admit this is a movie I find myself thinking less of people who don't enjoy it - that's how much I love it. I did actually see someone yesterday on social media saying the movie is on the side of rich people and I almost lost my shit at that one - you have to be willfully moronic to leave it thinking that.
His face is scary to look at,sorry!
Jake, we get it, you don't like Barry. Feel free to shut up now.
blog, feel free to go fuck yourself
I feel like some of the defensiveness of the people who are falling over themselves to praise this while they find themselves necessarily attacking those that don't like it most likely has to do with whether they came of age 20 some years ago when this was set OR merely aspired to have that be their peak time of life. I love me some transgressive shock value but having been an adult since before the New Queer Cinema was a thing that became a thing, I'm more sad than anything else that this is being defended as either queer or, frankly, cinema.
There was SOME really good cinematography and SOME really strong editing, with some really talented performances (particularly Pike, and surprisingly for me, Elordia - likely since I've only ever seen the random clip - and even then only a very few - from Euphoria). Keoghan was better with less to do in Eternals, even; so more than anything else, I feel he was wasted here, even if he was very game and willing.
All I can say is that I didn't see this on a press pass for free but neither did I have to pay for it, so my only regret is the two hours of my life that would have been likely better spent watching some Euphoria episodes.
I know that right now really sucks, but I don't think I've heard many people aspire to have been a kid in the Aughts -- in the Bush years, where we were at constant horrific war and had just survived a horrible terorrist attack (some of us anyway) and GWB was a doofus nightmare every single day. I guess maybe it looks rosy to people who are kids during the Trump years but I don't think many of those people are writing reviews of this movie. I wasn't a full grown adult during NQC but I was a teenager and by the time I got to college I'd fully immersed myself and, listen, I made my case. I see Keoghan's character as the "gay villain" stereotype inverted and turned into our hero. And I'm very much here for it.
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