Saltburn is not an ‘eat the rich’ movie.
Obviously, rich people suck- it’s 2024, we all know that. And many films in the last few years reference this in some way: Knives Out, The Menu, even the Purge.
But these are movies made by..well..the rich. All mainstream movies these days are. They’re all great movies I love, but their attempts at condemning the wealthy are…a bit half assed. Most ‘eat the rich’ media centers around the middle and lower class bringing the rich ‘down to our level’ so to speak, and showing them that, yeah, life sucks. Get your head out of your ass and be human.
Honestly, I feel like Saltburn is more realistic in many ways (ignoring the grave, bathtub, and vampire scenes of course) in how it depicts the REAL fantasy many middle and lower class people have: living the life we condemn. Having a taste of that power. Hell, I myself have said I’d ‘do anything for a hundred bucks’.
It’s not about (and more importantly never pretends to be about) good people getting their dues. It’s about awful people doing awful things to worse people. No one is the hero teaching the rich a lesson we all root for. No one is an evil monster completely deserving of horrible deaths and exile.
It’s, in a way, about life. A documentary of sorts.
A documentary about monsters, and depravity, and obsession, and desperation, yes.
But..don’t we all sometimes crave the catharsis releasing our inner monster- inner Minotaur- could bring?
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