For as long as I have known my mother, I have never really known my mother. First, there was the language barrier. Not the English–Korean language barrier, but a far more complicated one.

I was in elementary school when I’d first learned about vegetarianism. One of my childhood best friends, a half-Hispanic, half-Hmong girl with gloriously thick black hair and already such an individuality to her, said kindly about meat one day, “I don’t eat that shit. I’m vegetarian!”

Saltburn. The titular North England estate where most of the film takes place. Made up of wood-paneled walls, regal English libraries, and a labyrinthine garden maze, Saltburn is much more than the beautiful backdrop for a story about Oliver Quick…