A movie, a vid

Saltburn: Can't help but assume the pitch for this was "What about a Brideshead Revisited/The Talented Mr. Ripley fusion? As in, Sebastian doesn't bring home Charles Ryder, he brings Tom Ripley, this all takes place near present day, and no one is Catholic!" The cast is great (and gorgeous to look at), though given the last thing I've seen Rosamond Pike in was The Wheel of Time, and most roles I've seen her in have her being the smartest person in most rooms (whether as a villain or a heroine), seeing her as Lady Elsbeth was quite the switch. The biggest difference to its various predecessors is probably this film eshews subtext and goes for main text right along, and also there are fare more bodily fluids of all kinds involved than in anything written by Waugh or Highsmith. (I'm a Farscape veteran, though. You can't scare me, Emerald Fennell!) Oh, and it's noticable that despite the female characters being played by beautiful actresses, it's the men whom the camera positions as objects of desire and objectivies. A lot.

In conclusion, I thoroughly enjoyed watching, but I don't think I'll do again, because this is also the kind of story where everyone is awful, and I can enjoy that if it's so well done, but it doesn't hook me for repeats. ( A few somewhat spoilery comments. )

Sense 8: A new and delightful Lito/Dani/Hernando vid.