AAA review: Call Me by Your Name (2017), A Touching Romantic Same-Gender Movie
I am the big fan of Timothée Hal Chalamet. The reason why I watched this movie over and over again only because of him. The story takes place in the Italian Riviera in the 1980s. Every summer, the 17-year-old boy, Elio Perlman, comes here with his family for holiday. This year, sharing their holiday time with them, Oliver is from the United States. This tall, handsome and cheerful Oliver quickly win the love of the Elio family.
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Soon or later, there was a fatal attraction between Elio and Oliver, but the gender and age of the embarrassment made them unable to step out of the critical step. While at the same time, the simple and kind girl Marzia also dedicated her feelings and love to Elio. In the end, the raging passion broke through the line of defense between Elio and Oliver. And the two began a relationship that was doomed to have no results.
The whole movie is praising the desire. The summer in Italy is hot. Under the camera, the two main characters have naked upper body, slender legs, and the girls' graceful body and lazy hair. They are all so beautiful. And the passion is like the saturated steam in the air. The next second will pour out. What is parallel to this is a series of ancient Greek sculptures exhibited in archaeological research in the film.
Some people say that God uses the beautiful body of young people to give love a shape to teach ignorant people what love is, just as schoolchildren use graphics to understand abstract mathematical formulas. In the movie, Elio is the subject of desire. Whether it is with Oliver, or with Marzia, or masturbation, his desires are blazing and simple. Without a trace of distraction or shame, he expressed his passion as if he was revealing a kind of innocence.
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Aside from all the movie labels, this movie is talking about the simplest emotions themselves. In the last 20 minutes of the movie, my emotions have reached saturation. As long as Elio cries, I cried. Looking at his lonely face, I can't stop sobbing. In the past years, I have not had any film that makes me feel so empathetic. My mood has not been calmed down, even if I watched this movie a few days ago. The resonance that this movie brought to me is unprecedented. It does not mean that I reminded someone of a particular person, but the inferiority, obsession, love and disappointment of the feelings in the memory have all emerged.
Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/398818-call-me-by-your-name?language=en-US
Critic: AAA