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Saltburn 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Saltburn doesn’t know what it is - worse than that, it doesn’t care what it is. It’s funny, sure. But that’s part of the problem, because only the rich people are. Oliver is revealed as the only character without even an ounce of earned audience sympathy. Which would be fine if he weren’t actually (gasp!) a member of the upper middle class. Keoghan plays it so straight he stamps out any spark of what might have been interiority.
As it stands, this movie offer no insight, no commentary, hell it doesn’t even ask interesting questions. Provocation without purpose, satire without teeth.
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Ghost World 2001
Why did Enid fall in love with an old man? Why does Enid not make any decisions of lasting consequence? Where did scarjo go for the third act? Why does the end wane poetic and artsy when the rest of the film was dry and satirical? Most importantly, why doesn’t everyone dress like Enid?
I ended up finding fault in the way this film presents Enid and her decisions. The end feels empty because her decision to leave - and…Translated from by
