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This was great 👍🏻

You explained this all so beautifully! I hope this reaches the right audience, cuz it really touched me. I related to so much you said and I did not expect all that!

Good video.

Rapunzel and Quasimodo are total homeschooled kids

So good!!!!! I’m obsessed- just like I was with talented rippley- this is my generation- I’m 38 - all my songs I grew up with- it was the vibe ❤

Deeply eloquent in your achingly sincere speech. I grew in Canada's "garden variety" United Church but link in life & work with fundamentalists. Like moth and flame for me; attracted and put off both.

I feel like the theme of obession would better stick the landing if something notably bad or unfortunte happened to Oliver in the end, or at all.

I wanted to love this movie more than I did. I did not find Oliver's motivations all that clear or compelling. He did not seem to particularly care about Saltburn or the rich lifestyle, so while I appreciate a good dark ending and a subversive ending at that, I was not totally satisfied with the conclusion. Felix's family were vacuous, but they were not necessarily awful people, at least, not as awful as Oliver. And if Elspeth was such an awful person, then why did she throw Oliver a birthday party and invite Oliver back to Saltburn, once the father died? That said, I loved that you framed this movie as more of an obsessive artist narrative than an "eat the rich" narrative, since it kind of fails at the latter. The idea that this was about one-upmanship more than a desire for Felix makes way more sense. Thank you for this video!

*Pascal politely helping Mother Gothel to exit the tower.

I was homeschooled preschool through high school graduation. While my parents weren't to the level of yours, (nor our denomination for that matter), my parents definitely qualified as helicopter parents, especially when compared to the other parents from our church at the time, who let their children do things that everyone else basically did. Fast forward to my second half at college, and I get involved with a group of friends. A lot of them were homeschooled with the same curriculum I had at some point. Not only that, but it's like we're cut from the same cloth- if said cloth is being neurodivergent nerds who make bad jokes at the worst times lol. I feel like our shared experiences make us super close as a result, and really willing to be emotionally open. Your video reminded me a lot of us- we're finding our own way together.

Beautiful video. Reminds me of my homeschooled friends who were abused and didn't even know it 😭 like yes public school kids are abused too but in my experience they sit around talking about it in the gym or cafeteria and can figure out something is up... the homeschool kids often either aren't exposed to others or if so it's other isolated kids who don't know any better. It's also concerning when these isolated homeschoolers are sent to tiny faith based or online colleges and don't get to experience "the world" through college.😢

personally, finding out the truth about oliver's family only made the movie better to me : some might prefer the rational, eat-the-rich explanation, but from my pov, ollie's actions being hardly understandable add a layer of darkness and mystery, like "....why did he do that?? why is he like that?" i loved the sort of complexity it added to the character

I notice that a ton of people who had helicopter parents seem to identify with Rapunzel from Tangled (I know not all homeschool parents are helicopter parents and vise versa, but they do tend to have a strong correlation). The media doesn't seem to understand what it actually means to be or be raised by a helicopter parent, and I see the term overused by people who haven't actually experienced it or talked to someone who has. They think simply being around your child or setting reasonable curfews is "helicopter parenting", but like when people say "lol I'm so depressed!" it gets overused and the severity of the abuse gets watered down, because it gets mixed up with parents who are just moderately protective, when overused by kids with normal parents who are upset by rules and parents who are normal but think what they're doing is "too much" because their standards for how close or strict they should be to their child are lower. Actual helicopter parenting, whether the parents have good or bad intentions, looks a lot more like how Mother Gothel raised Rapunzel. It unintentionally became the most accurate portrayal of it, with some exaggerations and minus the magic. The lack of boundaries, little autonomy, little exposure to the "real world", isolation, the sheltering, the ulterior motives to hide something or control their kids disguised as them "just being scared for their child", etc. These type of parents disguise their need for control over their children as "concern for safety", but they know better. What scares me is when these types of parents decide to homeschool. When kids who grow up these types of parents go to school, it's often the closest thing they have to being exposed to the real world, and it's their only sanctuary from their parents and place they get to meet their friends. Homeschooling can be great when they parents are good people, but unfortunately, homeschool appeals to a lot of not so good people who could use this right to homeschool as an opportunity to hide their abuse or indoctrination or to give their children even less autonomy and independence than they already do, or both, often times.

Underrated

Great. Now I feel like recommending Son of Rambow.

I first compared myself to Rapunzel before I was ten years old, and long after that throughout the remainder of my time being homseschooled. I never imagined someone would have drawn the same parallel. Thank you for this beautiful video, and thank you for helping me feel a little more seen.

I’m sorry to hear about people who had a hard time homeschooling. Public school was bad for me so I asked my mom to homeschool me and I loved it. Transitioning into college was easy and I also loved being in college. It does suck when your teacher - parent or not - doesn’t prepare you the way you need to be.

Thank you man, i hadnt thought of this movie in forever but its very true. I was only homeschooled for a few years, and had the benefit of having co-op twice a week. Its incredibly isolating and hard to overcome lack of knowledge. This came to me at the right time as im finally leaving and setting off on my own. Its terrifying but comforting knowing things will happen and things will be okay. This analysis resonates deeply, i more of us can find this gem.

This video was incredibly sweet. It reminds me of how I was treated by my parents. They never let me learn how to function in the world. Even outright telling me I'd never be able to make it on my own. So when they died, I was without people there to keep me from experiencing the world. It's true I have a little help. But except needing someone to drive me to the store for groceries, I'm able to take care of myself. When I want to go to the mall, I learned how to take the bus. I pay my own bills. I take care of my own money. I take care of my house. It's sad that it took that to happen before I could prove to at least myself that I am able to make it in the world. But at least I was able to prove it.

Hey! This was a great video, excellent quality, content, and thoughts. Liked and subscribed :)

I love this video so much. I watched tangled today and bawled my eyes out at many parts, then of course went to youtube to try and find the answer to my feelings. And luckily, the algorithm pointed me your way. Tangled came out when I was 7, the same year and time my mom and I got involved in a very traditional and religious church. That was also around the time I was pulled out of public school and started homeschooling. Rapunzel was the first disney princess I really connected with (on a deeper level than liking aurora cause she was pink, anyway) and the story was there for me right at a time when my life was /really/ starting to get more isolated. I watched this movie over and over, had a very well-loved rapunzel doll, imagined being trapped in my own tower and bravely escaping. Like you say in the video, it wasn't all bad, and I have a lot of good memories and experiences from that part of my life--and I think a lot of it did help me become who i am today. But getting to choose my own life in my teenagehood and college was SO freeing, knowing there was more out there than what I had been taught and told. All of this to say, SAME, man, and it's so gratifying to see someone out there with a similar experience/relationship to this movie as me. So thank you for making this video! Here's to escaping the tower.

thank you for making this

Amazing theme: Don't hang out with gay men, because they are dangerous and gross. What a lesson this director portrayed. thank you for exposing them (gay men)

just watched it over the weekend and might watch it again. it was so salacious I loved it. BUT when Felix dropped dead, I thought he had committed suicide bc Oliver 'saw' who he really was and he couldn't deal with someone else knowing that so he killed himself bc of it. Was so happy farleigh was offed because he was such an annoying pest throughout the movie.. LOL. I didn't know Venetia was going to be gone like that, but her passing makes sense. I honestly found myself cheering for Oliver towards the end of the movie... so maybe that just says a lot about me.... overall great film and can't wait to see what Ms. Fennell has in store for us next!

My boyfriend knows I'm a bit of a cinephile and just asked me on Saturday what my favorite theme is. I told him obsession and compared Saltburn to Black Swan. Great video!!

the interrogation of obsession and desire is what makes it such a genius 'eat the rich' story

anyone else jump scared by the music video?

The chick from the queens gambit isn’t human. She has to be a human/alien hybrid or something. The lips, almond eyes, shape of the face…. Something’s up!

i agree with everything plus the edit

really enjoyed this review! i loved the pulpy jubilance of the film.

Barbie? Maybe Oppenheimer, but Barbie does not deserve a single award. It was a cute movie with some cute laughs. It looks like Oppenheimer is going win a lot of awards, but Saltburn was so much better. It's a shame it is not being taken more seriously. I think it's the best film from 2023 with no contenders. These awards really are becoming meaningless.

I feel as if Oliver was so obsessed with Felix and once he realized he couldn’t have him, which I believe had been his goal at the beginning, he killed him. If he couldn’t have him then no one else could. I also believe he wanted to become Felix as well which is why I’d call it obsession rather than love. After Felix died he still felt the desire to take something for himself which is why he then decided he was going to take Saltburn. Could be wrong though but that’s the way I viewed it.

YES GET IT

Thank you for your interesting analysis. I agree with most of your points. 🙂 Do you have any idea how Elspeth becomes terminally ill? It just says on Saltburn's Wikipedia that she falls "fatally ill", without explaining how or why. Surely Oliver somehow had a hand in her decline (given his sly ways)?

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BEAUTIFUL. AMAZING. GIFTED. TALENTED. INSPIRING. MOVING.

I love the behind the scenes footage.

A rare glimpse into daily life

As a filmmaker, I think you should really lean into the more dark monochromatic aesthetic you set at the beginning! It's quite beautiful! Dropping you a like!

This one is my favorite!

So meta, so yawn. 'Midnight'?

very cinematic concept

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Finally! I thought I would NEVER get to see this film! This was a fabulous film, great story, great shots, good audio, lighting and editing. It was so awesome to see some familiar faces too. I am very happy to have gotten to finally see this film. I'm going to watch it again! Soooooo, what's next?

So proud of everyone involved!! 💖✨

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