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Jeff Takacs's avatar

I absolutely loved Saltburn. Just thought it was perfect. It really IS a great example of your choice/non-choice thing. Everybody had a choice, even those--like the parents--who were doomed into doltishness by choices made long ago, like Elspeth's (hilarious) revulsion to "ugliness." Elspeth was comfortable with her metaphysical identity as "One Who Is Repulsed by Ugliness", which seems to include "wetness", which is lol and particularly so because she'll end up a name on a rock in the water. Which is not to say I wished for anyone's downfall. I kinda-sorta liked them all, not cause they were rich, just cause I like my delusions, too. Just loved it. (Triangle of Sadness was so unfunny and didactic that it robbed me of any thoughts so I don't have any.)

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Victoria Ward's avatar

I love both films but Saltburn definitely went into my favourite films of all time. I loved so much of it - especially how erotic it strained to be... the eroticism manifests itself in a kind of elite fantasy. Feelings of joy and sexual freedom only achieved with great wealth. Triangle of Sadness was less a movie per say and more of a treatise on power made into a very obvious, very literal film. I felt the film makers had to hit people over the head to get them to understand how much wealth can create illusions of power. But yes, Saltburn was better.

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