Saltburn

‘I loved him, but was I in love with him?’ Well you were certainly in his grave weren’t you bud.  Not gonna lie…I think this movie was quite overrated. I’ve seen it before but now I’ve watched it with more of an effort to pay attention..eh. The film does not fall flat in its cinematography, soundtrack, and sometimes funny dialouge such as when Elspeth talks about people associating the girl in ‘Common People’ with herself. Both the party and afterparty scenes were visually striking and had a wonderful contrast, and I appreaciated their choice of often putting Felix in the sunlight whenever they’d cut to him. And the soundtrack was AMAZING, I loved the difference between pieces written for the film and songs included in it like ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’. My problem was this movie falls a little flat. Eat the rich. In Oliver’s case maybe a little too literal at times as well. But it was executed in a kind of lackluster way? I felt like I was waiting for more to happen even though the movie did feel as if it was dragging on.  I am kind of upset I didn’t watch this whilst I was staying in Magdalen College though.