In the novel, Oliver didn't know until the end that he was able to come because elio chose him
Therefore, 17-year-old Elio's first heartbeat started with a photo. Before Oliver arrived, elio had chosen him.
"I think it's you" "It's better to be you" "It must be you"
Everything is coincidence and premeditated.
This is not directly captured in the movie.
But this long-hidden heartbeat was implicitly hinted to the audience from the very beginning through some details.
At the beginning of the movie, elio and Oliver haven't met yet, elio just heard the sound of the car, and even went to the window to take a look without even getting dressed.
Moreover, when he first heard the sound of the car, although he complained that Oliver was "the usurper" (intruder), he didn't seem to welcome him very much, but there was surprise in his eyes, and his expression was also smiling.
Here, the contrast between the elio when Oliver arrives and the elio when others visit later is quite stark.
When the close aunt's family came, elio didn't show much joy; when visiting guests he didn't like, he had to be educated by his father before he could pretend to be a little polite.
Elio has always been the wayward young master who was spoiled and spoiled by adults and had a bad temper.
If he hadn't seen the photo in advance and was moved, he wouldn't care so much that he would run to the window when he heard the sound.
If he didn't care, he would probably just lay lazily on the bed, indifferent to the first notification from his mother that "he's here", and would reluctantly get up and go downstairs to greet him until he was called again from downstairs.
Because of expectations, he should have been watching the car drive over. Oliver just got out of the car when Marzia got up and came to the window.
Therefore, elio has been watching his car come downstairs, just as, in the end, he is also watching the departing train, watching him leave.
Dad said to Oliver "You are taller than the picture", and elio and marzia said "He looks confident", in fact, it is implied that elio has seen the picture of Oliver, he is confident, sunny, tall and handsome in the picture .
Before Dad told Elio to come down, Elio himself said "I'm going down" to Marzia, so Dad looked up at Elio's room with a confused expression.
Because when he looked up, Elio, who was still poking his head just now, had already turned to go down.
The phrase "I'm going down", with the determination and bravery of "I'm going to see him", and the impatientness of "I'm finally going to see him", so elio closed the door and went downstairs with a sense of momentum
Elio jumped upstairs briskly and jumped downstairs.
But when he got downstairs, he deliberately slowed down.
Because, he didn't want to be found out that he was just peeking upstairs, and he didn't want to be found out that he was looking forward to seeing Oliver, so he deliberately asked his mother "Has he arrived yet?"
As if it wasn't him who peeked upstairs just now.
The first time we met, Elio acted like a well-behaved, sensible and polite eldest son in the family.
But the interesting thing is, because it is a practice for students to come here every year, then there should be a fixed room at home for students. In short, it should be negotiated in advance, and students will live in Elio's room when they come.
So elio knew early on that two people were going to live in the same room, so why did he ask his mother, "my room?"
It was to deliberately tell Oliver in front of him,
"Look, it wasn't me who offered us to live in a room, they let us live together."
Turning around, Elio, who was carrying the luggage, couldn't help but smiled.
Dad said "follow him" to Oliver (follow elio) here, including the back, where elio played the guitar to attract Oliver, and elio himself said "follow me", in fact, whether in the novel or in the movie, Oliver and us These readers and audiences are all following the 17-year-old elio, following his line of sight and experiencing his emotions, as if we are also experiencing such a beautiful story.
I don't know how the script wrote the first meeting between Elio and Oliver, but after reading the novel, and then watching the beginning of the movie, I have to say that in the director's lens, Sweet Tea's performance is really delicate, making the 17-year-old Elio, That kind of heart-wrenching, subtle emotions that I want to hide but can't control are very well grasped.
"Call Me By Your Name" is really a movie worth rewatching countless times!
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