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Book Coach Blog: Saltburn
Background: What Is Book Coach Corner?
Book Coach Corner is a blog series that allows me (your neighborhood-friendly book coach) to analyze books, TV shows, and movies. I then dissect them in terms of story structure. As a heads up: there will be spoilers, and some posts may not make sense if you haven’t seen/read the work.
Those are the details. This entry explores the film Saltburn and narrative tonal cohesion and character motivation.
Synopsis
Y’all this movie is wild.
It follows a new student, Oliver, at Oxford who befriends another student, Felix. As Felix and Oscar’s friendship develops, Felix asks Oliver to stay at his family home, Saltburn, for the summer.
Quick Thoughts
I love, love, love this movie. Would I recommend it to everyone? Absolutely not. But it was a film that made me feel things, even if they were incredibly uncomfortable feelings.
I’m coming to realize that the art I love is often the expression of things that make me explore different parts of myself — emotions I haven’t felt, things I haven’t seen, ideas I’ve never encountered.
Saltburn came through on this in spades. The discomfort of some of the scenes is unnerving. Viewing it in a…
