Saltburn

I have just watched Saltburn, a movie, which is available on Amazon Prime.

For those who have not watched it yet, please do it before reading this page. Those who have done, welcome.

This movie is quite unique and interesting. As the reputation, it is sexually aggressive and and hard core in some ways. However, the cinematography is beautiful and acts, lighting, colour design, and details are fantastic. Its plot is is fascinating as hell. My dear, I am kinda obsessed with this work, not as I am with Call Me By Your Name but yes, this is a great work.

First: The design of this movie… This movie’s plot is quite up and down as well as the lighting and colouring. The usage of colours is quite eccentric and vivid. This let us to feel something emotional. Also the symbolic usage of the mirror is efficient. This makes this movie have multiple sides and so as Oliver. He is the main charactor of this movie but until the middle of this movie, it seems like he is just a talker about a rich man life of Felix, as like in The Great Gatsby. This way to direct the movie lead us to think he is nothing for this plot. If you know, you know. He is everything in this movie at the end.

Second: Plot… It was amazing. In my opinion, this movie is quite toxic and unhealthy. Still, the toxic make me feel really sick and addicted like a drug. Its plot is theatrical. As I already said, it has up and down a lot and but the most significant characteristic of this plot is its Unreliable Narrator. I actually could not find great word for this type of narrative trick (in Japanese it might be closer to 叙述トリック). Here I would like to call this as Narrative Trap. This movie is constructed with a first person narrative of Oliver as a main portion and at the end, we get third person perspective and we can notice what was going on in this entire movie. So that we have to watch this movie as Oliver want us to at first. This is the narrative trap. We are fooled, or should I say we are made to see his play like Felix. We notice that we are the member of the family, not just an audience but victims. He was playing as we might want or expect him to in this movie. Because it is a movie and we wanted to see a drama on a theater stage.

These two are my favorite part of this movie.

And here, in addition, I want to write what I thought when I watched the beginning part of this movie.

What killed me in this movie is a discrimination and an unbeatable wall of wage gap. The stage of this movie is Oxford, the world famous university. This university is famous for its high level and quality of academic education and research. It should be so. Nevertheless, for me it is also famous for its cost. This university cost like millions of pounds. If you know me, you know, I dislike a discrimination of wage gaps. Wage gaps are not the children's fault, not what they made on their purpose with their free will. As I introduced in last page of this blog (but it is in Japanese), this is innate injustice or innate unfair, which is caused by something the person who become subject to something unwelcome or unpleasant not as a result of the person's own behaviour or actions especially innate reason such as physical characteristics, gender, and environment. University of Oxford have a good scholarship and this helps students who have some wage gaps and talents. However, people who have tons of money tend to have a good environment and a enough education which lead them to go to world famous universities and they actually afford it. At the end, as Oliver got treated in this movie, there might be a discrimination based on some eugenics-like reason. The rich do not want to hang out with someone cannot afford to go to uni by themselves and wearing recycle shop clothes. It is a discrimination. Even if they tried and put tons of efforts which might sacrifice their important life experiences on study, this leads them to feel empty powerlessness. This is unfair. I am quite emotional about this topic and I know some people think it is normal and just what this world is like. However, are there any reasonable reasons? I do not think so, and that is why I call this as innate injustice. Who can blame innocent people with random responsibilities which should not be theirs.

Thank you for reading my page.

I am still learning English and I am sure that there must be some mistakes or misunderstanding which I do not noticed. So if you find some, tell me. And of course, please share what you think about this topic and movie. I would love to hear from you all.

Thank you.