Theorem (1968)
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
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Drawing from films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley and Teorema, Saltburn wears its inspirations on its sleeve while taking it up a notch.
With more than a nod towards Pasolini’s Theorem , a tinge of eroticism and unachievable desire underscore a subversive Saltburn .
Two other echoes: David telling each family member what their fallen kin had told him: “He wanted me to tell you that he loved you,” parallels Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” punchline and of course each shot of David imparting his machined poise to the mother, the father, the sister, the little brother, offers eddies of Pasolini’s “Teorema,” with Stevens acting as a latter-day Terence Stamp, who seduced house and home because it was his due.
At times the plot teasingly recalls Joseph Losey's The Servant and Pier Paolo Pasoloni’s Theorem , poison-tipped parables about cunning social outcasts staging stealth home invasions against upper-class hosts.
Si bien es cierto que su representación clásica ha cambiado en el cine (papá, mamá, hijo, hija y mascota), son pocos los largometrajes que se atreven genuinamente a desnudarla y exponer los monstruos que existen en ella cuestionando al público directamente (verbigracia, Teorema, Ordinary People, Festen o August Osage County).
Upon Oliver’s arrival, there’s a faint comparison to Terence Stamp’s interloper in Pasolini’s Teorema (1968)—what has this sun kissed foreigner come to do to this wealth blessed mixed Italian family?
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Developed, produced and financed by the Irish company Element Pictures, The Killing of a Sacred Deer skewers middle-class complacency in similar ways to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s famous Teorema .
It’s “Meet the Parents” in reverse crossed with Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Teorema,” in which Terrence Stamp seduces, one-by-one, a bourgeois family.