TikTok users say wealthy people taking part in Saltburn TikTok trend ‘miss point’ of film

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Since the discharge of Emerald Fennel’s posh thriller Saltburn, Gen Z viewers have develop into entranced by the lavish life-style and Noughties University expertise of the wealthy upper-class characters depicted in the brand new film.

The film stars Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick, the middle-class interloper who poses himself as a scholarship pupil from a working-class background to win the friendship of Jacob Elordi’s wealthy aristocrat Felix Catton. Quick joins Catton at his household house, referred to as Saltburn – a big British countryside mansion property with acres of land – for the summer season holidays.

The film was made accessible on Amazon Prime Video on 22 December and have become the unlikely Christmas film of the 12 months as 1000’s of people tuned in in the course of the festive break.

At the tip of the film, viewers watch Keoghan dancing across the Saltburn mansion in his birthday swimsuit to Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor”, shifting by way of the grand nation home, between its sprawling staircases and grand hallways.

Gen Z TikTok users, presumably from wealthy backgrounds, have been utilizing this viral second as a possibility to indicate off their lavish houses, recreating Keoghan’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” scene as they transfer by way of their very own households’ property with British interiors and historical statues.

“When Saltburn hit a little too close too home,” one person posted, panning the digital camera to grand views of their pool, backyard and grand eating room.

However, some social media users have remarked that the people creating the video could have “missed the point” of Saltburn, which is to satirise the absurdity of the lives of the higher lessons.

One individual wrote: “It’s so funny to me that rich people are using Saltburn to show off, totally missing the point of the film.”

“Imagine flexing this after watching that film…did you actually watch the film?” added one other. “It’s amazing how many people didn’t understand the point of Saltburn.”

Another individual joked: “Can I come and stay with you for the summer?”

In The Independent’s four-star evaluate of Saltburn, chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey writes: “As a class satire, [Saltburn] reaches no conclusions. But it’s filled to the brim with darkly funny, bile-slicked revulsion. For its director, who hails from the same upper classes she targets, it’s an act of self-excavation.”

“Fennell colourfully constructs these elite spaces, in which ‘just f*** off and do History of Art’ is a real insult, and where the truly, truly privileged own the smallest televisions. She knows how to pick her actors, too, though Rosamund Pike is the absolute highlight – luminously awful, every sentence dripped with judgement.”

Since the film was launched on Amazon Prime, 1000’s of people made the error of watching the film with their mother and father, unaware of the squirm-inducing “scenes of a sexual nature” they have been about to witness. The Independent’s TV editor Ellie Harrison, who prompt she and her household watch Saltburn over the festive interval, writes: “One of the most talked-about sequences sees Barry Keoghan’s libidinous interloper Oliver Quick slurping dregs of bathwater from a drain, minutes after Jacob Elordi’s handsome aristo Felix Catton has pleasured himself in that very same tub.”

“This was the exact moment my mum reached for her go-to awkward film prop, the newspaper, and began to fervently (and unconvincingly) read an article about interest rates. My dad seemed to be stunned into silence. All I could do was laugh. We’d been here before.”

Saltburn is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.