In the middle of the night, in the middle of the night, ask yourself if it's the half-cooked frog

Jason 2022-04-21 09:01:43

After watching "Please call me by your name", finally.

summer afternoon sun in italy

Cicadas chirping and the wind cruising in the sunlight of the leaves

Hot weather where you can play the piano with bare feet and half body

Swimming in the pool in the lake

Then lie on the grass and feel the sun and dappled tree shadows

...

in six beautiful weeks

But it took almost a lifetime of effort to fall in love with someone.

It is love, not unrequited love.

It's love, desire and longing so hot that the nose bleeds at the slightest provocation.

It's love, it's each other's sweat and smell.

It is love, it is to feel each other's body temperature and heartbeat.

It's love, it's cautiousness who wants to approach but doesn't dare.

It is love, it is unwillingness to want to push away but not willing.

Is love, you call me by your name, and I call you by my name.

Even if the final ending is separated, it is still enviable and enviable.

Just like the different dad at the end said to Elio - "I envy you".

Especially this feeling

Again, in an unhindered, no sideways discrimination,

Nor take root in an ideal world without the resistance of the family

The icing on the cake is that there is someone who can understand this feeling,

A father who can communicate peacefully and honestly through personal experience,

All I can say is - "I envy you, more"

And what Dad said was like a curse, a curse for adults.

Along the way, we get hurt and choose to bury those painful memories and numb ourselves in order to heal.

Because of the fear of being hurt, the sincerity and feelings are paid less at a time than at a time.

Because of fear of being hurt, sincerity has become a product of the planned economy,

Because of the fear of being hurt, feelings have become a number that can be calculated and mortgaged.

Because they are afraid of being hurt, they even choose to be the one who hurts others first.

...

While the insensitivity to pain increases, it also loses the sensitivity to feel pleasure.

This is a fact, a cruel fact.

What's even scarier is that this fact is happening at a slow and even unnoticed pace.

It's like boiling a frog in warm water. When you really find it, you're afraid that you've lost a lot of precious things.

Constantly abandoning and suppressing and numbing yourself, thinking that it is giving yourself a layer of protection

In fact, he did the opposite and let himself throw away his armor and unarmor.

So whenever you wake up in the middle of the night and the night is quiet, look at yourself and ask yourself,

Have you become that half-baked frog?

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Extended Reading
  • Amir 2022-01-27 08:05:58

    Is this movie that good? It's not just about an ordinary love that can't be ordinary anymore. . . .

  • Marcella 2022-01-27 08:05:58

    One of Berlinale's most memorable episodes, searching for the summer hormones in the vapor, but ultimately bitter. I think the biggest charm of the two protagonists is that even people like me who haven't read the original book still firmly believe that they are the characters from the book.

Call Me by Your Name quotes

  • Oliver: The Cosmic Fragments by Heraclitus: The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice, but that some things stay the same only by changing.

  • Annella Perlman: [Reading from The Heptaméron] A handsome young knight is madly in love with a princess, and she too is in love with him, though she seems not to be entirely aware of it. Despite the friendship that blossoms between them, or perhaps because of that very friendship, the young knight finds himself so humbled and speechless that he is totally unable to bring up the subject of his love. Until one day he asks the princess point-blank: Is it better to speak or to die?

    Elio: I'll never have the courage to ask a question like that.

    Mr. Perlman: I doubt that. Hey, Elly-Belly. You do know that you can always talk to us?