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The sample size is small, but based onPromising Young WomanandSaltburn, filmmakerEmerald Fennellloves an outrageous, montage-heavy ending.
How didSaltburnget there and does its final 20 or so minutes feel cathartic or clumsy?
From the beginning, Oliver has a real scorn toward women (Christ, the girls.
I loved him, I loved him, I loved him.
But was I in love with him?
Just be yourself; theyll love you, Felix says, and so Oliver gets folded into the Cattons.
Do they love him?
Doesnt his present-day interview resemble an interrogation?
Isnt the bland room in which those scenes are shot similar to a holding cell?
It plays out like this.
Felixs death splinters the Cattons.
At first, Oliver was only guilty of being a manipulator.
We got there in the end, didnt we?
Had he researched him beforehand, and how much of his plan was figured out in advance?
Each was fooling the other, and their shared artifice was intimate.
Do they actually deserve each other, because theyre both reprehensible?
The misdirectionSaltburnuses to get there, though, is too much pulling of strings.
