Cracker
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 20, 2025 05:01 AM)
yes, I kept thinking of Saltburn while watching Brideshead.
btw, I have a theory about Saltburn. You need to know your Kristeva, though, to make sense of it. Saltburn uses abjection extensively, especially in the scene where he drinks the bathwater with the semen in it, and in the scene where he goes down on a menstruating woman. But abjection in sexual matters tends to heighten the sexual element, whereas in the film the abjection seems to be in the service of acquisitiveness (he wants the house, not the people in the house). So the film misses the mark, substituting boring capitalist desire for the far more interesting sexual desire associated with status. -
LivingDeadBoy
️ — 10 months ago(May 20, 2025 05:53 AM)Yeah the whole point was he didn't really want Felix, he wanted to be him and have his money and material things/lifestyle. The same idea was in The Talented Mr Ripley - a sociopath so enamored with material wealth that that desire transfers to a person, who to the sociopath is a representative of that economic status.
People said Saltburn had a Marxist flair, you know, proletariat vs Bourgeoisie, but it wasn't that at all. The main character wanted to be the upper class, not destroy it. The whole movie is about middle class envy of the upper class.
I love the movie but I thought the grave
****ing scene was overwrought cheap shock value. Movie would have been better without it.
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 21, 2025 03:05 AM)
Yes, the grave ****ing scene was very cringe-inducing. I agree that it was about middle class envy of the upper class, but such envy would not manifest itself in the mere acquisition of property. I cannot help thinking how much better it would have been if they had read their Balzac or Stendhal more carefully (especially Le Rouge et le Noir), or even their Flaubert or their Evelyn Waugh. The house would have been the least important thing for them….
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LivingDeadBoy
️ — 10 months ago(May 21, 2025 02:32 PM)The only one of those I've read is Evelyn Waugh. But ya, I felt bad for the Cattons. Felix was a good guy. I identified more with him than Oliver. Oliver was such a loser.
Great acting all around, especially Rosamund Pike!! She was great!
They should have played Country House by Blur in the final dance scene instead of Murder on the Dance floor
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CrystalRaindrops — 10 months ago(May 20, 2025 04:33 AM)
How about Cracka?
https://www.filmboards.com/board/112317568/
A present day white supremacist gets thrust back in time where the African Americans rule and the whites are the enslaved.