Do you think Barry should have won the Golden Globe for his performance as Oliver in Saltburn? Or did Cillian Murphy deserve it? Let me know your thoughts below!

Unpopular opinion: his plan to inherit salburn wasn't made up initially at the beginning

Like Venetia pointed out, Oliver only knew Felix for about 6 months. He barely knew Felix, he just loved the idea of him.

Him dancing around naked is such a slap In the face. The director just rubbed the madness in our faces. I loved that.

This movie has me in a chokehold

I honestly don’t think Ollie set out from the very beginning to take salt burn for himself, and I also believe that Ollie did love Felix. A lot of people wonder what would’ve happened in the end if they had never met Ollie‘s parents, and therefore Felix rejecting him. Ollie did love Felix because you can see it through his gazes, actions, and distress after Felix‘s death and throughout the film. Ollie had a framed picture of him and Felix, that he blew a kiss to, and only touched Felix’s stone at the very end. If he had no love for Felix, then why would he have even cared to remember him? The Director even stated that Ollie happiest ending would’ve been to be married with Felix. But unfortunately Ollie was so enchanted with Felix that he would’ve rather have him dead then let him go forever.

I will have to politely disagree after watching through it a lot more. Ollie did truly love Felix but he was far too grandiose to see the reality of what he actually was to Felix in the start and I think he truly was lead on to partly believe that. He doesn’t initially want Felix’s lifestyle. He wants his heart but when Felix hurts him he decides he’ll take the rest of the future he envisioned with Felix. He sees him as this angel instead of the person he is (it’s why he doesn’t initially smell how gross Felix’s room is cause he’s not in reality)and so doesn’t actually consider the fact that Felix is just kind to a lot of people and can drop them like nothing very easily. Felix literally says I love you to Ollie and kisses his cheek the first time they come across one another. Up to this point I think he is truly just trying to live out a rom com fantasy and he’s desperately in love but when Felix rejects him he switches and gains a hatred for him that’s extreme as his love for him and it’s because Felix actually really hurt him. He didn’t account for Felix being nosy enough to take him home for his birthday. It wasn’t just a kind gesture. It would have been for Felix to get a feeling of gratitude and a close up look at a poor person because that’s what this family does for their holiday. It’s why he takes different guys home with him every year. You see Felix is also trying to impress his parents. They’re narcissists and he’s the golden child. Venetia is the scapegoat. He brings home a spectacle for his mother each year. She judges their beauty and tragedy. They do not see them as more and discard them. Farleigh knows that and it’s what he tried to convey to Ollie the entire film. Ollie’s actions are pure manifestations of unbridled rage and obsession in both extremes and that’s what his entire monologue is about. The blood scene is to show him as cannibalistic. He devours the family from the inside out like Venetia said. That’s why he did that blood scene and why he drunk the bath water. He will consume them entirely and in the end he did. The grave fucking scene is reference to heathcliff from wurthering heights digging up and laying with the body of his lover. The story was similar in that it had a character infiltrate a rich family but the motive was unrequited love which is what I think we have to disagree on. Also Ollie wears those horns cause in Shakespeare plays they were usually used to signify a cuck lmao.

What was interesting watching back is the beginning monologue when he says, “I loved him” 3x it flashes to himself.

Psychopath 1, Narcissist 0 At the Midsummers birthday party Oliver was dressed as the character Puck for a reason. He was the mischief maker and the narrator, the only person who understood what was going on. Oliver was the “snake in the grass“ who referred to himself as a vampire, and he was! He wanted to consume Saltburn. He didn’t lick up their blood and drink their bathwater because he loved them. He simply wanted to be them, consume them. You are what you eat, as the old saying goes. His ego was hurt when he was not accepted, he was more than willing to shag his way into Saltburn, murder was not his first go to, but he was more than happy to move to murder if he deemed it necessary. Oliver is not capable of love. Oliver has no empathy for other people, even his loving parents. He never loved Felix. He had Felix’ narcissistic number from the start. Once Oliver studied Felix enough, he sabotaged him and slithered into his life by playing the perfect little plaything, minion for Felix, the British “Chad”. Everyone at Saltburn was so consumed with their own narcissism and egos that they were blind to the fact that they had invited a bigger spider into their web. They had “no natural enemies“ and were like a stupid trusting dog sleeping with its belly up. They were easy, pray for Oliver, who was a snake in the grass that they did not see, coming (as was alluded to in the scene when they were lying in the tall grass) “ what a twist”. The name Felix means happy-go-lucky, the name Oliver means inherited by ancestors. Did Saltburn deserve Oliver because of all the centuries of aristocratic lording it over the rest of the UK? The family of narcissistic aristocrats definitely met their match in Oliver, the psychopath. Although we know better, we almost cheer for Oliver in the way, we cheered for Alex in a clockwork Orange. We praise the predator. We have sympathy for the Devil.

I really enjoyed watching your take, however I disagree with much of it. I don't think Ollie's intentions were about financial or material gain at all, perhaps minimally as a positive consequence. The answer lies in Venetia's monologue. He is a moth, attracted to shiny things, but ultimately consumes and destroys them. He wanted (needed, really) to consume the family, both figuratively and literally.

At the beginning I kept comparing Felix to Dickie (Jude law's character from TTMR) and I was getting annoyed by Felix's lack of charisma in comparison, but in the end, it made a lot more sense that he was that way. Dickie's friends wanted to be around him 'cause of his magnetic persona (also the reason why Tom fell in love with him), but Felix's friends wanted to be around him for his kind heart and royal-like status

You missed the mark with the parents. It not only the abuse that leads to a serial killer its also the lack of discipline or consequences for bad behavior that contributes too, his mother doing whatever to please him including let him leave the house suddenly without a word of objection shows the way he was raised and allowed to become a little creep

He's more machiavellian than psycho/narcissist/sociopath in my opinion

This movie made my blood run cold

We DON'T know enough about Ollie's background to understand him -- it was really frustrating for me, the viewer, to figure out what motivated him. Is he gay, bi, asexual? I didn't exactly know as he used sex as a tool. Is he a sociopath? Not quite as he seemingly has too much emotional baggage. Because of this it was a relief to me as a viewer to find out he had been sociopathically manipulating everything since the beginning. But, still, the movie seems too incomplete to me.

this was such a fantastic review. this has made me want to watch it. subbed!

Ollie was a sick, sociopathic animal that attached himself to a disconnected idle rich family. He CAN'T love.

I don’t buy his story that he planned it out from the beginning: he manipulated Felix with his sob stories but had to deal with contingencies along the way. There was way more thinking on his feet, but his hindsight narrator is convinced that it all went as planned. His end speech is just an F U to Mama Saltburn but it’s not how it really went down.

6:17 I don't think that's true. I think he wanted to be accepted into the Saltburn family, but was also happy to kill his dreamed family to get it. Until, in the end, he had to kill them all when they one-by-one saw through him. And everything he wanted was reduced to 'big house'.

A whole new meaning to the words Oliver Twist.

This movie belonged to Barry Keoghan and to a lesser degree, Jacob Elordi.

Sometimes psychopaths are just psychopaths. A lot of serial killers suffer from different kinds of abuse, but nothing particularly outstanding that many people go through who *don't* end up like them.

I like to think Ewan Mitchell's character was Felix's friend the previous year or something. I think there's more there than we know too.

I wonde: if Felix had never contacted the Quick family, would Ollie have still killed him first ? Would he have killed him at all? That contact seemed the only part of the story that Oliver hadn’t planed for…

I thought Matt Damon deserved awards for his performance, I think Barry should too. Barry is an incredible actor, he will earn awards soon.

This tipe of characters are so fascinating. Elusive and cunning people that weave their plans on the shadows of their own prey. Does anyone have book, movies or any other media recommendations where there are characters like this? Parasite comes in mind

Definitely reminded me of The Talented Mr. Ripley ….. which reminded me of the Great Gatsby. Thank you for this analysis

i don’t think he originally wanted Saltburn , i think this is a twisted love story of a person who is obsessed. He was obsessed with Felix because he was his first love and he’s the narrator. I don’t think he started a master plan for the estate because he didn’t know Felix had that mansion . I think he really wanted to just be friends with Felix and once he killed him (because he was threatening his spot in the family ) i think that’s when the plan turned into getting saltburn , i don’t think it was some elaborate 12 year plan

The talented Mr. Oliver. 😂 good catch!!

Sociopaths are made psychopaths are born That’s what ollie is a psychopath.

I'm honestly surprised he didn't kill Farleigh, Farleigh was so mean to him, but instead he cut him loose and just burned him out of the family.

Do you think he knew about saltburn from the beginning and wanted it or he firstly wanted the friendship and when it failed he wanted the house

I think he loved him; Oliver turned into a yandere. He wanted to consume everything that was related to Felix. He was in denial saying he hated Felix at the end.

As i was watching it i almost thought the kings that used to live in that castle were possessing him causing him to have strangely sadistic confidence and that it was why the rich people wanted him there in the first place . Imagine they just bring an innocent victim to their castle to be possessed by the ancient kings as entertainment. Kind of how on Beetlejuice they were going to exploit the ghosts except instead of that it's for their own pleasure.

This popped up in my recommends. Everything I have learned about this movie has been against my will! 😂

“Ollie had Venetia under his thumb” in more than one way

Heathcliff, I mean Richard III, I mean...

My jaw dropped and stayed dropped the rest of the movie

Poor Dickie Greenleaf 😔

“Tom Ripley- I mean, Oliver Quick”

The Talented Mr. Ripley is an underrated film. Loved the reference you made ❤

Have you watched the film? Because you haven't understood it. That's the simpler bit because it is harder to diagnose ClusterB ASPD (aka psychopathy and/or sociopathy) than you superficially intend to prove here. Quick didn't set out to get Saltburn as stated. It was a by-product of a chain of events starting on his birthday. Quick's first murders were to prevent his true shallow, lying self from being revealled. There were not part of a masterplan to acquire an English country house. Indeed the film totally fails to explain how really this occurred. becase as the director makes clear the film is about love. So, by definition the lead Quick is not an empathy empty ClusterB type. As repeatedly shown in the film Quick is well able to display love most notably in the bathroom and grave scenes. An ASPD personality would have demonstrated sorrow for these losses publicly i.e. at the funeral not privately at the grave. An ASPD's emotions for loss are not empathic in saddness of the loss of life for the individual concerned e.g. Felix is dead poor Felix. It is saddness for themselves now that Felix will not be in their life e.g woe is me as I am now bereft of Felix. Quick is genuinely distraught at the loss of his friend/"love"; this is not the response of a psychopath. ClusterB's are not mal-adjusted turning up to a college still wearing their school uniform and having no social skills. ASPD's have learnt to fit in by adulthood through the use of superficial charm and/or wit. They aren't the centre of the party but often are initially attractive for being entertaining types. Whilst technically some might not acquire these skills using one of the seven characteristics of ASPD where it hasn't occurred to make a psychopathic diagnosis would be completely wrong. A technical diagnosis of ASPD requires the symptoms to be apparent by 18. Quick's parents would thus have been well aware by university that their child was amiss even if they could not themselves label it. Such that communications home about being top of the university, in the rowing team (for a man so small!) etc would not have been lapped up by an adoring mother as gospel truth. Most parents of psychopaths are well glad when they are leaving home, not demanding contact and making a cake on their return! Really you think parents who best know this person, upto the age of about 20, would want their psychopath back!??!? Laughable. These scenes are commentary on Biritsh middle-class mores not psychopathy! Slatburn is not a study in psychopathy. It is a fun ride of humour that does not stand critical examination from these perspectives, in part because much of it is satire. As the director has made clear it is not a realistic crime film per se (e.g. where are the police in all this?) but a love story.

Well it can’t have been eazy for Venetia…

You hit the nail in the head when you say that the need for attention is Oliver's most important trait, I'd say he craves to be idolized. And that's the saddest thing... Because you open the video saying he is like Tom Ripley and that's absolutely false. Ripley is conflicted, lacks self-worth, his imitations show he struggles with his identity, he is in love with Dickie and kills him in a fit of rage, he kills because he is constantly in danger of being caught... Oliver revels in his acts, he's extremely cruel, he loves breaking social norms and taboos. It's a shallow comparison in terms of their characters even if their acts may seem similar. And that's why Saltburn is a far superior movie because through The talented Mr. Ripley Tom has done nothing wrong to the audience, but in Saltburn Oliver has tried to do the same harm to us: he has tried to make us see how deserving he is of our attention, he has made us watch all his powers of manipulation, seduction, cunning and violence. He made us pity him, root for him and fear him.

I really am a sucker for happy endings, movies where everything turns out all right in the end, that's what I love most about this and Mr. Ripley.

I’ve made Saltburn my whole personality

The way the butler looked at him when felix died tells us that he knew but nothing happened I expected him to be waiting for ollie at the end to kill him

Damn disturbing flick. This kid is a MAJOR talent. Also devastatingly great in "Banshees of Inesherin".

Barry is supposedly the joker in the Batman that Robert Pattinson did 😏

I love this movie, but I'm not sure how he'd get away with poisoning Felix or killing Elsbeth. Was that why he was being interviewed?

Q: 17 YEARS? He was 35 at the end of the film?

Psychopathy and Sociopathy is different. Psychopaths are born, sociopaths are made...I believe Ollie was born that way, sociopaths would have a degree of remorse, Ollie didn't have any. His lies, jealousy, manipulation, grandiosity, narcissism is clear to see.

I took saltburn as a guide on how to live my life Oliver is a peak social climber

Gawd dam I was mad that Venetia or Harley didn't corroborate their abuse.

I thought I was in for a semi feel good, young and reckless type movie that’s also a thriller with a few twists, like maybe they were gonna be criminals or something, I don’t know man. I just thought the FAMILY was gonna be the bad guys. I didn’t think it was gonna be an insight on the psyche of a truly monstrous “human” being. A totally sickening, depraved animal. Just a completely hopeless sociopath, born that way, and never stood a chance to be anything else. Entirely selfish and will do absolute anything for what he wants. He wants all the praise, attention, sexual domination, and total subjugation of everyone and everything around him. It’s all he cares about. I’ve seen worse stuff, it was just that it caught me so off guard. What’s scary is that there are “people” like him. Maybe rare for them to be as extreme as Ollie, but they are certainly out there. They’re not human, they are just complete monsters. I’m sure you can tell by now that this movie left a bad taste in my mouth. A salty taste. Ew that’s fucking gross, considering that one scene.

ngl, i relate to ollie because i would also do whatever I can to build a future the quickest way possible.

Didn't fool me, and that worries me.

I think farleigh returned to Saltburn in fact I think when he gets out the bed as murder on the dance floor starts I believe farleigh in in that bed

Seen the film 'The Lesson'?

Wow really insightful /s. TLDR he didn’t have friends so he developed sociopathic tendencies. These UKposts video essays are laughable.

Joker Origins of Mattw Reeves

I think personally too much time is devoted towards low hanging fruit obviously the guy had problems but the people around them were not good people either that rich family was full of sociopaths themselves as I think most rich people become if you take out the cringe moments in this movie it's ordinary

This movie was actually a kind fuck

I wouldnt be surprised if he'd killed again during the time-jump.

Every single character in the entire film (apart from Oliver's parents) would rank very high on the psychopathy scale. Oliver was just smarter than the rest.

I dont understand how he inherited the house though

Yep but be trasting only because once meeting parents, doesn’t mean that is the real. Those kind of households keep playing nice before strangers and try to impress them, make themselves goods ones etc. But behind the close doors it is totally different. And I do not believe that his twisted mind come from healthy loving family.

Tom Ripley for the next generation ❤ deeper darker ❤️

How did he get the address

Why did he keep having sec with everyone ? Was he gay ? If so then why did he have sexual interactions with Venetia? And he threatened farleigh while having sec with him, but how did he threaten him? And what was the purpose of having sex ? I’m so confused

What's to analyze? He was a jealous murderer who killed people to get what they had. Pretty simple to understand, honestly. The mind you should really be analyzing was that weird woman Pike played, who for some reason basically adopted Keoghan's character as her son because they had a few chit chats.

This video reminds me of the scene im Futurama, where they mention that poorness has been declared a mental illness. That's bascially what this video does. While it is true that Oliver doesn't have all his marbles together just being like "oh he's just not popular and that's why he's jealous of Felix" misses the explicit point the movie makes several times. Oliver is denied access to student life, because he is not as obscenely rich as the other kids. What he is lusting for is obviously to be rich and wealthy like the people at Saltburn. Like, I am sorry but did you guys not watch the movie? It's so on the nose that it is about class🤦🏻‍♀️

ALL WRONG. LET ME EXPLAIN: This is a gay film from the start, and you remove everything related to it. Oliver tried his best to get Felix sexually and emotionally. How he looks at Felix tells it all, even touching his stone at the end. It turned out to be about wealth because of his frustration with not getting Felix. The whole film is about staying with Felix but ruining the plan. Read this: 1. It is about a gay guy's obsession with taking chances with a possible bisexual or closeted gay guy. Look at how Felix gives him quick kisses, gives him importance, and even takes him home. He's even mad about what happened with Oliver and Venetia. He also brings a new guy every year. Both like each other but no one dares to confess. That's sad. 2. The bathwater scene happened because that's the only intimate encounter he's had so far. Watch what Felix is doing in the bathtub. Oliver's looking for the sticky one but gets drained, so he drinks what's left. Watch it! It is frustrating as they shared a bathroom throughout but nothing happened. 3. The graveyard scene happened because of his frustration that he never got a chance with Felix. He fantasizes about him so badly but never gets him until the end. Almost get the hot guy and you know it is possible but never happened. 4. Farleigh is like Oliver. See how he's so mean with Oli? That's how gays become mean to each other over a guy. You'll do anything to boot out the other person trying to take your place. Oliver knows he's gay, so he uses it to boot him out. Your explanation is too safe for the audience (I understand), but the story and meaning truly require some more open-minded perspective to understand. It is rated R not just visually but also for the deeper meaning of Oliver's character. Thank me later. Love from Alex. I can relate to Oliver's frustration knowing that there is a chance to get the guy and he's into you but suddenly the plan didn't work out. BONUS: Remember when Felix was giving Oliver a walkthrough around the mansion and he said, I accidentally F my cousin here? Who is the cousin? It is Farleigh. TAKEAWAY: So gays, this film is really for us. We may never see the happy ending but it is for the missed opportunities we encountered. I can relate because I could've been happy if I had been brave enough and ask. But like Oliver, I'm not. THIS IS PURE GENIUS AND MASTERPIECE. The tragedy will never happen if Oliver and Felix make out and live happily ever after. But this is Saltburn so it has to burn.

In Saltburn the USA version the psycho would probably have used an AR15 on his classmates.

A 2023 reskin of The Talented Mr Ripley.

Barry Keoghan is the best young actor in Hollywood, much more talented than other overrated actors like Chalamet or Elordi

Don't over 😊think it...he is an opportunist

I hated this movie until the last 10 minutes

Bottom your way to the top 🙃

If Oliver is a simply sociopath, how could he come to the Oxford with a scholarship?

Who's up for slurping up chewy bath water?

this sounds like it was written by AI

Definitely has spoilers.😂 such an incredible movie

Your video title is quite a spoiler.

The end-of-credits scene in which we see Ollie dying of prostate cancer 5 years later was a sobering conclusion

It’s unrealistic that he inherited saltburn as the title would have been passed on to the nearest male relative as soon as the dad died- not to elsbeth

Man, he really is like Tom Ripley huh

Im Oliver 😈

TOM RIPLEY 👍👍👍

Gayest film ever

its not that deep mate, though I was quite surprised when I found out this film wasn't written and directed by a 16 year old girl.

This movie was the epitome of trying too hard

Can’t understand why this is attempting to analyse the main character as though this film tells a story , it’s doesn’t. This was a glamorous, expensive attempt at illustrating class divide. I say attempt because it lacked portrayal of real characters that people could engage with and believe… it was a series of vignettes/ scenes that were not cohesive and whilst watchable it missed the opportunity to delve deep into class divide. The film put too much emphasis on shocking/ disturbing scenes, each one trying to outdo the last, without offering any depth. It’s a no from me

boring movie

Pretentious, predictable , lazy and BORING movie

The antler reminded me of Hannibal Lecter🥹 I think his love is as real as Hannibal's love towards Will.