#you've got the oak king and the emperor's new clothes

[the-nettle-knight]

Saltburn makes me wanna throw up. Not because it's perverted (it's not really, it's just got a little cinnamon). No it's got so much symbolism and folklore in that it makes me wanna vibrate out of my skin and I'm not even a folkorist

#they speak #saltburn #i saw someone saying that it's like a proper old fashioned fairytale (not a disney one) and i hard agree #you've got theseus and the minatour #you've got the labyrinth #you've got henry viii #you've got shakespeare #you've got 80s/90s kids tv shows #you've got robin goodfellow and herne the hunter #you've got the oak king and the emperor's new clothes #you've got homoerotic vampires #and vampires in the old sense #you've got lust for a person and their station so much that if you can't have them you'll consume everything and still be left wanting #it's eat the rich coming from someone who is already relatively wealthy and how that translates to not actually helping anyone #you've got a wealthy man cosplaying as being poor to get what he wants #ugh #its a reflection of the poisonous way british classism consumes and consumes and consumes #and it's from the perspective of someone how was hugely benefitted from the system so ofc it's not gonna be an in depth essay on tearing it #all down