Why is "Call Me By Your Name" not a gay film?

Trent 2022-04-22 07:01:07

After watching it, as a viewer, the emotions are full and messy like the ending, looking at the fireplace full of tears and faintly smiling, it seems that in these few minutes, the protagonist has taken out six weeks of time and experienced it all over again. Maybe for the rest of my life, over and over again. I know it's called the most beautiful love movie of 2017, so I thought about how beautiful it is before watching it. I think the scenery must be infinitely charming, right? The style must be romantic and pure, right? The story must have twists and turns, right? Love must be dry wood and raging fire, right? The scenery is beautiful, and the movies that can be set in Italy are actually in this tone. From "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", "Under the Tuscan Sun", "Paradise Cinema", etc., we can see that the city has a very literary atmosphere. The style of the town is really suitable for the protagonists to sit on the open-air tables and chairs on the street, reading and talking, dancing with music and strangers in the drunken night at the door of the church, dodging and bravely expressing their hearts around the sculptures of World War I. The style of painting is slightly indescribable, not as pure and fantastic as I thought, but also full of youthful and real restlessness, a peach play can be described as bold. The bright and full tones, the always hot scorching sun, always lively, will not be settled in an idle pond, the white and youthful body and bright shorts evoke a deep sense of laziness, and the comfort of nesting on the sofa. The love story is all in the flow of dark waves hidden by the flat and slow surface, and the audience will miss it if you don't pay attention. The conversation between the two was like a distant cicada, lazy and vague, but everything happened quietly. The wandering eyes between them, the snickering smirk, and a call in the name of oneself have already explained too many emotions, and no more obvious plots and dialogues are needed. Therefore, its beauty is not superficial, but when you enter the movie and become a teenager yourself, seeing all kinds of anxiety, joy, pain, and grief prepared for you this summer, that thumping heart is there In the tranquil and extraordinary rural scenery, I suddenly touched the beauty of this indescribable feeling. The stamina is surging, worthy of uttering his name a hundred times, gentle and breathless, and the fire is leaping. A good movie, it's not just this movie to watch, but in the end it becomes the one and only one. When I read it, I was reminded of Thomas Mann's novel "Death in Venice". It is also the background of the Italian story, and the beautiful boy as delicate as a Greek sculpture deeply attracted a German writer. The writer is not gay, but he is crazy for him, just because the youth is strong enough to surpass all beauty. Elio is beautiful, and Oliver has studied ancient Greek culture. I originally thought their story was like an extravaganza of "Death in Venice", but when I saw that the father said to his son with some envy, "I once approached Lu, it is the most difficult to have no sense of dazzling skills, just like the writing said "no words and words", I thought it was a running account, when I recalled the scenes of the movie, I suddenly found that it was all priceless, as if I fell in love with it. Once. When I watched it, I also remembered "Spring Comes Together". It is also a bit of an excessive blue sky in the rich warm colors. It is also indescribable about love, and it is attributed to the trivial daily life. It is such a strong feeling of substitution. But this one is more bland, there is no quarrel and no misunderstanding, so this time, the two of them went to see the waterfall. But this time, such a smooth and simple relationship ended in separation, which was even more cruel. (Fortunately, the original did not stop here, and I am ready to read the book.) Maybe it is because of what Jung said: beauty does not exist, beauty is a state of disappearance. In fact, just like Jia Baoyu met Qin Zhong in "A Dream of Red Mansions", he just liked this boy, he just thought he was beautiful, and he never thought about the same sex and different sex. This is just as reasonable as Baoyu's "coexistence of indiscriminate affection and special affection". He really likes many beautiful people with all his heart. It can be said that he does not like "people" themselves, but likes those beauties, those who have their own advantages and disadvantages. traits, even out of his kindness. And "gender" is even less worth mentioning in front of these things, and has never established a barrier to stop it. When we were young, we never restrained our love when we were not put on unseen chains. Jiang Xun said, in fact, sometimes there should be no distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality. It’s all sincere love, maybe ignorant, maybe ambiguous, but feelings are inherently unclear. It is really normal to be attracted by guests staying at home in a hot summer. It can happen to young people. I even suddenly understood how irresistible Humbert's heart was when he met Lolita on the grass. Although he is not young, I just want to say that the arousal of certain emotions is irrational and unconditional. When struck by lightning, who cares about the identity, status, age and gender of the person in front of him? Many people say that the words my father said at the end sublimated the whole film. This is because those words came from the summary of the previous generation who had already "survived the old state by eating the memories of the beauty of their youth". Those words were told to elio, not only for educational significance, but also for expression, showing that the father is also a beautiful existence in his heart, or that he has reached it. But the weather-beaten tone showed the imperfections that the years had added to him, which could not be erased. The most beautiful is still at the age of Elio, the best one is seventeen years old, even the pain is beautiful. Father is really envious, but no one is young anymore, All we can do is to relieve pain, joy, and remember at the right age. Some of us are still going through this empty and romantic period, and some of us only miss the seventeen-year-old who has 10,000 butterflies in his heart, but all of us are resonated by this film without exception. It's really a gentle and quiet summer, with nothing to do, riding a bicycle across the fields, and jumping into the pond when it's hot, shaking shorts and vests, stirring music scores and hormones; What a beautiful summer.

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Call Me by Your Name quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Oliver: Later!

  • Art Historian 2: Cinema is a mirror of reality and it is a filter.