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Watched Saltburn, found it delightfully and unexpectedly hilarious and fun all the way through, and disagree entirely with anyone who thinks the ending monologue from Oliver was unnecessary or too blunt or whatever. The ending monologue from Oliver was absolutely, 100% necessary to complete the story told in Saltburn.

The point wasn't Oliver finally revealing to the audience how he'd planned out everything and all the events of the movie had just been carefully constructed stepping stones on the pathway to his true motivations the whole time.

The point was Oliver reframing everything that had happened as a story to himself, so that he could convince himself that all of it was a part of his true grand plan all along. That he didn't make mistakes or fumble his obsession/crush so hard that he wound up murdering the guy and his whole family and stealing their house about it. No! Of course it wasn't that! That would make Oliver look silly!

And Oliver may have been willing to put on an act of being someone pathetic and useless, but only when he could tell himself that it was only an act. That in reality, he was the one with the power, the knowledge, the control over everything.

Oliver didn't care if anyone else knew that he was the cool and clever winner of some convoluted scheme he'd masterminded from Day 1. Once Felix was gone, all that mattered to Oliver was that he convinced himself that killing Felix was the only choice he'd ever meant to make.

#yes this exactly this THANK YOU

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Has anyone made a Cattonquick edit to Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down yet?

#cattonquick #oliver quick #felix catton #watching you two from the closet wishing to be the friction in your/his jeans anyone? #fall out boy #saltburn #for science

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✨ saltburn bts pics I adore ✨

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Man I want this book but it’s always min. $300 😭

From the Saltburn screenplay coffee table book.

I NEED someone to release the digital version of the pic.

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How do y’all get the confidence to post on AO3? The brain rot finally won and I wrote a fic but I’ve never written one before and I’m not sure it’ll ever see the light of day hdbfjwndjwjsk

#it’s okay if it never is posted #I do want to learn though #and maybe go for it even if it’s shit just for fun #cattonquick #saltburn #oliver quick #felix catton #it’s mostly for me anyway

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I want all the people writing fanfiction about Felix to know that he's canonically a bad kisser and bad in bed

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You're the only friend I ever had, Felix. Okay… I mean, doesn't this just prove how much, how much of a good friend I actually am? How well I actually know you? I'm still the same person. Yeah? I'm still the same person.

SALTBURN (2023) dir. Emerald Fennell

#I watched again yesterday and this scene still GUTS me

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i keep wanting to post about cattonquick but i feel like i've lost it completely. nothing articulate comes out. i just open up a new post and think about them just kissin and being happy and alive and i just do this.

#relatable #cattonquick

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i’m obsessed with them.

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SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE | 🫦 LUST Felix & Oliver · Saltburn (2023) dir. Emerald Fennell

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Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick | Saltburn (2023)

“To me the bathtub is just an incredibly erotic scene. It is all the things that something stirring should be, which is funny and intimate and shocking and revolting and unbelievably sexy. What I was trying to make with this film was something that felt actually true about the nature of desire. For desire to really take you in its grip like it does in this movie, it has to be to a certain degree transgressive. It has to be something you wouldn't necessarily want people to see. Catherine Breillat, who I'm obsessed with, put it best. In 'Romance' she says that beauty thrives on degradation and that sexual tension isn't between two people, it's between desire and revulsion. That tension is what the whole film is about. It’s about our relationship with the things we want and how sado-masochistic that can be.” - dir. Emerald Fennell for Time

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"The first image I thought of in the movie, the inspiration for it, was Oliver saying ,"I wasn't in love with him," and then licking the bottom of the bathtub [after Felix uses it]. We built that bathroom and that bath. But I think it says so much about the kind of world that we're operating in, in this big country house, that the bath is in the center of the bathroom. It's sort of designed to be watched. These houses are built for voyeurism because the staff need to be able to see but not be seen. There are multiple doors and mirrors in every room, so you can slip in and out. There’s such erotic tension to that but also kind of horror because you're being seen doing the wrong thing. The bathroom felt like a very good metaphor for that: the place where things were private but also public." - dir. Emerald Fennell

Saltburn (2023)

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did i love him?

𝒮ALTBURN ( 2023 ), WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY EMERALD FENNELL.

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I haven’t seen much talk about this piece of context yet so I’m just gonna put it out there. This is just brain rot drabble so take it with a grain of salt. I’m not an expert nor am I very familiar with British culture, but I am a gay person that grew up in the late 90s/early 00s in small town USA.

And sociopathic tendencies aside, I can relate a lot to Oliver, as well as Felix, when viewing them through the queer lens. That scene at the party early on at Oxford, sitting so close together in their own world. The small touches. The lingering looks. The tension feels too much to handle. Any formerly closeted queer person that had an intense crush on their best friend growing up probably can relate. You want to tell yourself they feel the same way, that you should just go for it—but you can’t trust yourself, and you certainly can’t make a move in a crowded room of people. It wouldn’t feel safe.

The feeling is too much, so Oliver redirects Felix’s attention to India and Annabel. The “safe” choices. But then when Felix does choose one of them, it hurts. He watches from the window, and later in the final flashback we see he was crying. He believes the truth and depth of his love is only meant for the shadows.

Farleigh has the freedom to be a confident pansexual because he has grown up in New York City with a bustling queer scene. Again I’m not very familiar with British culture, but I can imagine Oxford in 2006/2007 is more in line with the feeling of a small conservative town than the West Village in the early 2000s. Felix seems to accept Farleigh’s queerness, nonchalantly mentioning him sucking off the teachers, but he can’t understand his own feelings for Oliver. He can have any girl he wants and he does, but he doesn’t seem to actually feel anything for them. I used to do the same thing, trying to fool myself into feeling something for the opposite gender.

And the first time I admitted my feelings for someone of my same gender, confessed, and then was rejected? I shoved myself in the closet in shame so hard I convinced myself it was never true and it was all just a silly phase. Like Oliver.

Oliver loves Felix. Of course he does. And Felix loves Oliver. But in the moment neither of them can admit it, at least not truly and all that comes with it. They’re young and dumb and don’t fully understand their own feelings or motivations in a world where they’ve been raised to reject their queerness and strive for the status quo.

But maybe (definitely) I’m projecting.

I’m happy for the younger generations today that can be themselves at an earlier age. It’s only one small aspect of the movie to me, but seeing Saltburn and feeling the yearning and shy coming of age and coming into your queerness, and then how denying yourself can make it all go wrong, hit so close to home.

#saltburn #cattonquick #sorry for formatting issues - posting on mobile #first time posting #please be nice #back on tumblr for the first time in a decade am I doing this right? #lgbtqia #oliver quick #felix catton #farleigh start

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Unreliable narrator that pretends that everything turned out the way he planned just to cope with the regret of what he had done.

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Saltburn (2023) dir. Emerald Fennell