“Sometimes you just have to bottom your way to the top,” reads a review of the Jacob Elordi-starrer movie Saltburn (2023) on Letterboxd, a social network for movie buffs. The review has over 52 thousand likes and sort of aptly describes the movie’s plot in the most Gen-Z style possible—a one-liner in all lowercase.
My introduction to Letterboxd came through X (formerly Twitter), where conversations about the app piqued my interest. I am no movie buff, but I do know that American film director/screenwriter Sofia Coppola’s daughter onceNot so much. I am the kind of person who thinks it’s an achievement if I finish watching a movie without once looking at my phone. I find it difficult to sit through a two-hour movie but can watch endless episodes of . However, with no seasons currently airing, I found myself delving into the world of cinema, inadvertently becoming one of those men I typically disdain—self-proclaimed cinephile, perhaps overly enamoured with certain classics like (1972) and (1983), to the point where it becomes the core of his personality. Of course, not all cinephiles fit this mould.
