Saltburn (2023)

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I keep hearing about the 'bonkers' ending for this but can anyone fathom an ending that ISN'T about the rich getting their just desserts from the filmmaker of Promising Young Woman? That's not a knock, either, I thought PYW at least had some balls to go where it did...

I wanna be proven wrong, or that this film does something interesting beyond making Keoghan the butt of 'ugly duckling' jokes or subject to 'oh, but you're so fascinating inside' word salad so no one expects him when he goes cuckoo. The poor dude seems to fall into two casting umbrellas: the sad sap or the quiet psycho. Perhaps this will be the first time he gets to try his hand at both??

I've loved the campaign, though. I still think My Summer of Love is the polestar for this specific sub-genre, though.