WTF IS THIS?!!! *Saltburn* Movie Reaction

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[@Maxwellish]

this film has to sit in my brain for a day before I realized I really liked it. I’ve never seen a film depict obsession and desire like this, it’s really well done, there’s an insane amount of details, and the cinematography is brilliant.

[@chelseyleib2273]

Oliver was obsessed with Felix, he wanted Felix and after being rejected he decided that if he can't have Felix then nobody else can. So instead he decided to take Felix's place. The bike thing was to get attention from Felix and then everything else only happened because Felix found out the truth.

[@CritFlixReacts]

Ah

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@shaneencalade4988 ah makes sense

[@chelseyleib2273]

​@@shaneencalade4988if you read a description of the movie you'll see that it all starts with Oliver's obsession and desire for Felix. He makes up lies because he wants Felix to feel pity for him and comfort him. This is shown when Felix doesn't text him and goes clubbing without him. The next day Oliver lies about his father's death to get Felix into his life. He manipulated Felix because he was obsessed with him. However once arriving at Saltburn that desire grew. Then it became bigger than just Felix. The only time Oliver (who is definitely a sociopath) switched up his plan is when his lies were unravelled. He was being denied his obsession and it was making him even crazier than he already was. When he realised that Felix was going to cut him out for good and would never want him, that's when he went insane and decided to kill him and take over his life.

[@cosmic_void_1]

@@shaneencalade4988 As the director said Oliver is a social climber psychopath, this is to resume Oliver's obsession with Felix

[@LadyScaper]

Oliver is lying to himself about not being in love with Felix. He is telling himself he had a plan all along to get Saltburn, to convince himself that he didn’t lose what he actually wanted, which was Felix.

[@jefferymiller30]

Omg thanks for this reaction!

[@rena-sans]

*9 people now 😂great vid, can't wait to see ur other reactions!

[@CritFlixReacts]

Thank you!! 😁

[@thomashernandez8700]

No comment on the graveyard or nude final scene?

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There’s a lot of comments on those scenes on the Patreon

[@Geek-rr5cn]

You got more than four

[@CritFlixReacts]

That we did lol

[@Geek-rr5cn]

Thousand views wooo

[@ambitionbird]

I thought the movie was pretty anticlimactic, since it seemed clear from the opening monologue that Oliver was a psycho and he killed Felix

[@CritFlixReacts]

Yeah

[@heart_on_sleeve]

Great review at the end. I felt the same regarding the ending. There is absolutely no "gay love" in this story. Just a sick mentally deranged individual & him dancing & getting away with it at the end just sucked imo but I did love the movie for other reasons.

[@Maxwellish]

the director confirmed that Oliver was in fact “profoundly in love” with Felix. I’m very certain this film is about obsession. all of Oliver’s actions stemmed from his obsession with Felix, he did anything and everything to keep him close and avoid his rejection, Felix’s fate was sealed when he started to see Oliver for who he really was, he rejected him, and when Oliver realizes there’s no coming back from it, and that he’d have to go home after his party, he kills him. and it seems like he immediately regretted it. Saltburn had to become the new obsession, something to blur his infatuation over Felix with. people seem to forget that Oliver is a liar, he tries to make it seem as though his motive was always Saltburn via economic resentment, but it just doesn’t add up with the first half of the film.

[@AnxietyRat]

​@@Maxwellishyeah, I even read an interview where there WAS a kiss scene between Oliver and Felix but it got cut in the final version. So yeah... It was definitely a love story of some sort even if it didn't culminate in any actual sexual contact. 🤷‍♀️ I mean it's definitely more of an obsession story than a love story... but yeah, it's got gay themes, for sure.

[@greglr19751]

Terrible movie.

[@CritFlixReacts]

It was definitely weird lol