Saltburn
Mentions of death and suicide .
Summary
Saltburnis pack with subtle detail that portend Oliver ’s ( Barry Keoghan ) tangible design , but there ’s a genius yet easy - to - miss item that foreshadows Felix ’s ( Jacob Elordi ) tragic circumstances . Amongthe best movies of 2023is the black comedy psychological thrillerSaltburn , written and directed by Emerald Fennell . Saltburnhas been a strike with critic and general audience , more so after its quick arrival to stream thanks to Amazon Prime Video , and with a wider audience comes closer attention to the many hidden details throughout the movie .
Set in the early 2000s , Saltburnfollows Oliver Quick , a scholarship scholarly person at the University of Oxford who befriend wealthy pupil Felix Catton , who invites him to expend the summertime at his home ’s demesne . Oliver becomes obsessed with Felix , and the more fourth dimension he pass at Saltburn with Felix ’s family , the more possessed he becomes with Felix , his family , and their modus vivendi . Saltburnhas various shocking momentsand plot wrench , but one in special , relate to Felix ’s fate , was subtly but brilliantly foreshadowed during Oliver ’s first breakfast with the Cattons at Saltburn .
Saltburn’s Breakfast Scene Subtly Foreshadowed Felix’s Death
Oliver had his first interaction with the Cattons at Saltburn when he arrive and they were all watching a motion-picture show at the library , and they later on had dinner together . However , more important than their first dinner party is the next day ’s breakfast , where , after an embarrassing minute between Oliver and Duncan , the Samuel Butler , Felix order Oliver they were blab about the life history of poet Percy Shelley , with Venetia sharing the story of his housekeeper who see Shelley ’s doppelgänger . accord to Venetia , the housekeeper saw Shelley take the air past the window and he brandish at her , and when the housekeeper waved back at him , she remembered she was on the top level and Shelley was in Italy . hr later , Shelley drown .
As noted byThereAreTooManyMoviesonTikTok , as Venetia say “ Shelley walk past the window”,Felix ’s doppelganger walks past the window behind her . Felix ’s three-fold is wearing the same pinkish shirt Felix is put on at that moment , and the real one is sitting next to Venetia . When Venetia reveals the part where Shelley could n’t have walked past the window , Felix cover his ears and differentiate her to stop .
Felix ’s doppelgänger and the story of Percy Shelley ’s housekeeper predict Felix ’s death , and contribute to it is when , after Felix ’s dying , during breakfast , Duncan ask Mr. Catton if he can exit the curtains as the coroner was outside and was go to go past the window with Felix ’s body , but he struggled to shut down the curtain from the window where the doppelgänger had been seen days before .
How Saltburn Foreshadowed Oliver’s Lies & The Deaths Of Felix & Venetia
As cite above , there are many details throughoutSaltburnthat predict Oliver ’s intentions and the tragic luck of the Cattons , particularly Felix and Venetia . At different points inSaltburn , Oliver ’s reflection is register , either in shard cause by light or mirror , and in some scenes , like one of the dinners at Saltburn , his reflections do n’t oppose . When Oliver throws a rock ‘n’ roll into the river in honor of his supposedly deceased father , as Felix told him it was a tradition in his family , the rock’n’roll does n’t strike into the river and land on the side , hint at Oliver ’s lies as it ’s later break his father is alert and well .
As for Venetia and her death , during the breakfast scene after Felix ’s death , when Duncan is shut the windows , Venetia pours wine into her loving cup and it overflows but she does n’t stop , and this scene end up mirror her death in the bathtub after slitting her wrists . Many ofSaltburn ’s footling details are soft to miss , inviting the consultation to rewatch the movie a brace more times .
