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***"I loved him. By God, I loved him. But sometimes I... hated him. I hated all of you. And you made it so easy. Spoiled dogs sleeping belly-up. No natural predators." *** I'm genuinely so uncertain about how I feel about this movie 😭 On one hand, I thought the plot twist was actually pretty good. On the other hand, it took approximately seventeen business days to get there. By the time things started clicking into place, I had already spent half the movie staring at the screen going, "What the fuck is going on?" And that's kind of my whole experience with Saltburn… half the time I saw things coming from a mile away, and the other half I was completely caught off guard. It somehow managed to be predictable and unpredictable at the exact same time. Also, this movie is WEIRD. Not even in a bad way necessarily, just... weird. Every time I thought it was settling down, it somehow found a new way to make me uncomfortable. The cast being ridiculously attractive definitely helped, though. Let's be honest here. I might have been confused, but at least I was confused while looking at beautiful people. I will say that I really liked the ending. It tied everything together in a way that made me appreciate a lot of what came before, even if getting there felt like a fever dream. Overall, I don't know if I'd recommend it, and I don't know if I'd ever rewatch it. But I do know that I'm probably going to randomly think about this movie at 2 a.m. and still not know how I feel about it.

***"My cousin and I have very different ideas about what it means to be a hero. He sees the good in everyone... and I see the truth." *** I was honestly pretty disappointed by this. After watching Superman, I really expected this movie to be cut from the same cloth. That movie managed to be fun and emotional. This, on the other hand, just felt... too much. Everything felt way more exaggerated than it needed to be, and it kept pulling me out of the story. Every time I started getting invested, something would happen that made me roll my eyes instead. It was constantly bothering me in a way that other recent DC movies just didn't. And that's what sucks most. It's not that I hated it, it just never clicked. I kept waiting for it to hit the same highs I felt with Superman and it never got there. The one thing I can say is that I enjoyed watching a hot girl do hot girl shit for a while. That was great. Unfortunately, the movie then remembered it had a plot and proceeded to ruin my fun. Overall, not terrible, but definitely one of those movies that left me thinking about what it could have been instead of what it actually was.

***"How do you know if we're good people pretending to be bad, or bad ones pretending to be good?" *** As a bisexual person, this movie felt less like a film and more like a targeted attack. Every time a new character appeared on screen I was fighting for my life. Whoever cast this movie deserves both a raise and a restraining order. Holy fuck 🤤🤤 But jokes aside, I genuinely appreciated this movie so much. I went in expecting one thing and ended up getting something so much deeper and more emotional than I was prepared for. On the surface it almost feels like a modern Bonnie and Clyde story, but underneath that it's really about love, desperation, freedom, and two people trying to find a place in a world that doesn't seem built for them. What I loved most is that it never felt shallow. It would have been easy to focus only on the crime, the chaos, or the romance, but it actually took the time to make me care. By the end I wasn't invested in what they were doing, I was invested in them. And holy shit, it was sad. The kind of sad where you just sit there staring at the credits wondering why you willingly do this to yourself. I already know this is one of those movies that's going to randomly pop into my head three weeks from now and ruin my entire evening. Also, can we talk about that money trick? Why were they out here casually dropping life hacks like I'm not impressionable? Stop giving me ideas. Overall, this was beautiful, heartbreaking, surprisingly thoughtful, and so much more than I expected it to be. I loved it, and I don't think I'm getting over it anytime soon. Ps; I did cry seeing this in the cinema, leave me alone.

***"That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence." *** Alright guys, don't kick me out of the film community for this but... this just wasn't it. Like, AT ALL 😭 I know, I know. It's Pulp Fiction. I'm supposed to have a life-changing experience, stare into the distance afterward, and immediately add it to my list of favorite movies. Unfortunately, that did not happen. The only reason this got stars from me was because the music was amazing and the dancing scenes were iconic. I can't even lie about that. Those parts absolutely carried my experience. But the storyline? Oh my god. I was confused for half the movie and then confused about why I was confused for the other half. Every time I thought I understood what was happening, the movie decided that wasn't going to happen. Maybe I'm uncultured. Maybe I'll understand it in ten years. Maybe I'm just not built for this. At least I can finally say I've watched it though. I guess I'm one of the OGs now. HELP 😭 #amiconsideredcinephilenow?