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Oliver “won” in the end but is he happy? Snorting cocaine and dancing around this huge mansion on his own, gloating in his own ability to obtain Saltburn for himself and holding the dead rich family as trophies.
The psychology of Oliver does not ring true (thankfully). The obsessiveness and “love/hate” dynamic of Oliver is more true of the borderline personality and the borderline personality is usually too disorganised to pull off a coup like this.
Oliver’s psychology is more that of the dark triad, in which case he would not be that interested in sex and love other than to use them as tools to manipulate others. The grave and bath scenes do not make sense in this respect. So then we have to wonder as to the intention of the film maker, if the intention isn’t to warn us of such personalities in a real way.
Perhaps the film is superficial in that it is a thriller – simple entertainment. There is something superficial about the family’s grief too, in that it is comedic. The film is clever in the way it references other texts, but again this is a postmodern superficiality. I think she articulates an aristocratic fear that the middle or working classes will “steal” their wealth. Although the middle class fellow “wins” we are by no means supposed to enjoy his victory. On the whole no one comes out of this story very well.
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