There are some flaws in the film, such as the performance level of the second male lead is a little delayed, and the second half of the film sacrifices a bit of editing rhythm because of being busy with narrative, but the tension that is casual is really contagious, like a bird's wings have not yet flown, like The sail is full of wind and the boat is not sailing.
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It's hard not to be touched by the 17-year-old played by Timothée Chalamet who has seen the film "Call Me By Your Name". There is a surging secret in the young man's heart, which keeps his thin body in a critical state of tension at all times: lazy and rigid, clumsy and alert, dodgy and direct, hesitant and decisive... There are several. Next time, this critical body exploded unexpectedly: nosebleeds at the dinner table, crying in the arms of a lover, and vomiting near the end.
Everyone who has gone through adolescence has tasted this secret to some extent, it suddenly came to life, with all the longing for another strange life.
Shame, too shameful, and incompetent with outsiders, even if the person you desire is standing in front of you and asking you at this moment, you can only say, nothing.
The teenagers in the film are constantly chewing on the fable of the knight's love for the princess, whether to choose to speak or to die. In Zweig's novel "Letter from a Strange Woman", the heroine chose to speak after her death. In the original novel of the same name, "Call Me by Your Name", this secret has turned into an inner monologue of more than 200 pages. The lines are full of excessive desire, full of sensuality full of smells and bodily fluids.
These lewd words, the movie "Please call me by your name" did not retain a trace, and the film adaptation completely gave up the narration. In the movie, the whole way of expressing the secret is the body of the boy Elio. A critical body tortured in secret, terribly sexy.
This is a particularly purely cinematic film. It all but abandons the desire for narrative. The moral or social significance of the story approaches zero in the film. There is no gender politics, no moral conflict, no social pressure, and although Elio falls in love with a same-sex, it's hard to categorize this film as what we think of it as a gay movie.
The small town in northern Italy in the 1980s is like a paradise. In summer, there is a long wind, cicadas chirping, and golden sunlight. The wooden door and floor of the house are creaking. The apricots and peaches on the trees are ripe. In the bedroom that came out, a tall and handsome foreign youth lived in. At night, he slept in the bed he used to sleep in... mature and mysterious, like a mystery.
The teenager's emotions fluctuate with the youth's every move, and the whole film flows with the teenager's emotions. That’s right, this is a film driven entirely by emotions. The relationship between sound and picture in the film is all based on Elio’s perceptual perception: a low-key teenager who wants to integrate himself with the surrounding scenery, thinking sharply about a people.
The film has a wonderful tension. On the one hand, the film is full of all kinds of everyday nonsense that seems high-end but is actually meaningless, from the dining table and the study, to the debate about the etymology of apricot (apricot), to Buñuel and Heraclitus, Bach and Liszt, World War I and World War II; on the other hand, what really matters, the secret of speaking or dying, is never spoken out in plain language.
A movie about love without a single word of love from beginning to end.
This secret has an outlet when two people are closest: call you by my name, call me by your name.
In Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name", a person's existence is only confirmed when his lover calls out his name. In "Call Me By Your Name", a person's existence is not only determined by the call of the lover, but also confirmed by the lover's name.
Love needs confirmation, and when the word love has been abused as a vulgar and empty signifier today, the author of "Call Me By Your Name" is trying to find a new way to affirm love.
The connotation of the secret has been replaced at this time, and the secret of one person has been transformed into the secret shared by two people at this time. The exchange of names confirms the chasm-like crossing from stranger to lover. This is the pinnacle of love that happened in just six weeks in the summer of 17, a summer destined to be remembered for a lifetime.
Novels and movies have reached a watershed point at this point.
In the novel, the separated teenager and the youth talk again 9 years later. The youth is already the husband of a woman and the father of two children. Elio called his name to the phone, and he waited eagerly, but there was no other person's name on the phone.
He forgot, Elio thought.
It was a heartbreaking moment for countless readers.
The novel ends 20 years later. The middle-aged young man returned to the place where he had lived for six weeks that summer, and said to Elio, I am like you, I remember everything.
Elio said in his heart, if you really remember, if you are really like me, you will look at me and call me by your name.
The novel ends abruptly here.
For readers, this is a sad story. The peak experience happened in an instant, followed by 20 years of regret and unwillingness.
It's much warmer in the movie. Their call took place in the winter of that year. The teenager shouted a series of Elio into the microphone, the youth was silent for a moment, and then gently called his name into the microphone: Oliver. And then added: I remember it all.
The end of the film is a close-up long shot of the young man facing the fire, with tears in his eyes, but a satisfied smile on the corner of his mouth. Parting is ecstasy, but love is still there, and the other party calls its own name to maintain its state of perfection.
In the movie, the young man also went to marry someone else and have children, but the young man knew that their love would never fade. Intentionally or not, the film pays homage to the Greek gay tradition, which underlines that marriage is just a social responsibility and that true love happens between people of the same sex outside of marriage.
Is the Greek story the originator of danmei?
The most beautiful scene in the film, I thought to myself, was the scene where the statue of Venus was salvaged from the water. He slowly surfaced, lifelike in the loving eyes of everyone on board. The young man couldn't help touching the lips of the statue with his hand. There was no doubt that he was touching the young Elio in his heart.
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