Since the release of Emerald Fennel’s stylish thriller salty burnGeneration Z viewers have been fascinated by the lavish lifestyle and Noughties University experience of the wealthy, upper-class characters depicted in the new film.
The film stars Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick, the middle-class outsider who poses as a scholarship student from a blue-collar background to win the friendship of Jacob Elordi’s wealthy aristocrat Felix Catton. Quick meets Catton at his family home called Saltburn, a large mansion in the British countryside with acres of land, for the summer holidays.
The film became available on Amazon Prime Video on December 22 and became the unlikely Christmas movie of the year when thousands tuned in over the festive holidays.
At the end of the film, viewers see Keoghan dancing around the Saltburn mansion in his birthday suit to Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor,” moving around the grand country house, between its wide staircases and large hallways.
Gen Z TikTok users, presumably of wealthy backgrounds, have been using this viral moment as an opportunity to show off their luxurious homes, recreating the scene from Keoghan’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” as they tour their own family’s estate with British interiors and ancient statues. .
“When Saltburn came too close to home,” one user posted, panning the camera to take in gorgeous views of their pool, garden and grand dining room.
However, some social media users have commented that the people who created the video may have “missed the point” of salty burnwhich consists of satirizing the absurdity of the life of the upper classes.
One person wrote: “It’s so funny to me that rich people are using salty burn to show off, completely missing the point of the film.”
“Imagine flexing this after watching that movie…did you really see the movie?” added another. “It’s surprising how many people didn’t understand the point of Saltburn.”
Another person joked: “Can I come spend the summer with you?”
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In The independentThe four star review of salty burnLeading film critic Clarisse Loughrey writes: “As a satire of class, [Saltburn] does not reach conclusions. But he is filled to the brim with darkly amused, bile-smeared repulsion. For his director, who comes from the same upper classes she addresses, it is an act of self-excavation.”
“Fennell colorfully constructs these elite spaces, where ‘just fuck off and do Art History’ is a real insult, and where the truly privileged own the smallest televisions. He also knows how to cast his actors, although Rosamund Pike is the highlight: luminously horrible, every sentence full of judgement.
Barry Keoghan’s Oliver Quick in ‘Saltburn’
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Since the film premiered on Amazon Prime, thousands of people made the mistake of watching the film with their parents, without realizing the “scenes of a sexual nature” they were about to witness. The independentEllie Harrison’s television editor, who suggested she and her family watch salty burn Over the festive period, he writes: “One of the most talked about sequences shows libidinous interloper Oliver Quick, played by Barry Keoghan, slurping the remains of bath water from a drain, minutes after handsome aristocrat Felix Catton, played by “Jacob Elordi, he took pleasure in that same bathtub.”
“This was the exact moment my mother picked up her awkward movie prop, the newspaper, and began fervently (and unconvincingly) reading an article about interest rates. My dad seemed to be stunned into silence. All I could do was laugh. “We had been here before.”
salty burn now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
