So I decided to combine these two films in one because its awards season and they do kind of have things in common. Both are set in the UK, both are quite wicked films and they are both quite funny, but also a little disturbing too. So let's take a look at the film that made "Murder on the Dancefloor" popular again and a film that continues to prove that Olivia Coleman can do anything. Let's go!
Saltburn
Our first film is set in 2006 where scholarship student Oliver Quick (played by Barry Keoghan) is struggling to fit in at the University of Oxford because he doesn't know how to behave in an upper class manner. He makes a friend in popular student Felix Catton (played by Jacob Elordi) who is sympathetic to his stories of his parents' substance abuse and mental health issues and decides to invite Oliver over to his family estate, Saltburn, for the summer. Oliver accepts this invitation and meets Felix's eccentric family which he quickly wins over. But as he becomes more obsessed with Felix, it soon turns into a series of shenanigans that could ultimately harm them both if they are not careful. It's quite rare these days to see an MGM/Warner Brothers film be as over the top like this film. It's not going to win everybody over, but it's got great performances from everybody and if you are the kind of person that doesn't mind seeing a lot of manly flesh, then you'll do fine here. As the tag line of the film goes, you could very well go nuts in this film and I for one, love it when something goes a little nuts even if it means seeing a bit too much flesh. 8/10
Wicked Little Letters
Now for something that is a bit more tame than
Saltburn, but can still go a little overboard. This time, the profanity than the flesh being shown. Based on a true event that until now had been lost to history, we are in the 1920s Littlehampton where wicked little letters are being sent out to everyone in the town with the blame being placed on Rose Gooding (played by Jessie Buckley) whose personality and mouth are a little similar to the letters that are being written. But not everyone is convinced that she is to blame, as PC Gladys Moss (played by Anjana Vasan) sets out to find the real culprit, despite the sexism that occurs not just in the local police force, but also from Edward Swan (played by Timothy Spall), the father of Edith Swan (played by Olivia Coleman), the latter of which is good friends with Rose. This is a film that does well in trying to be funny, while at the same time, tame the serious moments of the actual story. It may be a pointless film because saying what you really think of people is something that we British do a lot, even during these times when political correctness has taken over, and we just can't do it as much. But overall, it's a nice, funny little film and worth watching if you just need to have a laugh and don't mind a lot of bizarre profanity. 8/10
And there you are. Two pretty decent British flicks that are both worth watching, but maybe just for one sitting and then no more after that.
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