The most beautiful age, the hot summer, the small towns of Italy, the picturesque landscapes, the restless soul. "Call Me By Your Name" is arguably the most beautiful film of 2017, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Timothy Chalame and Amy Hammer, adapted from Andrea Esimon's novel of the same name, which tells the story of 24-year-old American doctoral student Oliver meeting 17-year-old Elio in Italy, and the two develop an ambiguous relationship. The whole film is filled with hazy and faint sadness, just like its other translational title, "Summer Finale", as intense as summer and as short as summer.
The reason for introducing this film is not its eye-catching "same-sex" film genre, but a profound discussion about love and whether same-sex movies should be treated indiscriminately.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > a different style of italian town</h1>
Director Luca Guadagnino, as a native of Italy, his films always have a strong romantic atmosphere. At the same time, he is good at cleverly applying the unique urban language of Italian towns to the camera, such as increasing the audience's myth about the time of activity through the lens of cycling, and the leisure of strolling is in stark contrast with the passion of love, and the silence and movement are interspersed with reasonableness. In the film, there are many scenes of two people riding bicycles, both the youth of youth and the slow mood.
Many people think that this film will have the idea of traveling to the filming location. In the original, this unforgettable summer day takes place in the scenic Italian coastal city of Riviera, while the director sets it in the more secretive and low-key Crema. Because in his eyes, Krema is more of a typical Italian than the Italian in most Hollywood movies. The town is off the beaten track, but the people are rustic and have a unique Italian romantic feel. Vintage architecture, saturated tile wall colours, and shadows under the arches are full of romance and summer. Laziness and elegance and romance are the best definition of Crema.
In addition to filming, the sun and green in the film occupy a lot of time, and when you first arrive, you ride a green car, a green telephone, etc., symbolizing the fluffy vitality of a teenager. The director said before shooting that the film would inherit the style of "Holiday Thriller", and there would be a lot of nudity, and said that this inspiration came from the 1983 French film "About Our Love". It is not difficult to find that the protagonist is often naked on the upper body, which is both youth and desire. There is no shortage of links between art, literature, poetry, actors, Jewish identity and other themes in the film, and the long outdoor picnic shots, meticulous choreography design and mature fruits dotted with branches are intoxicating, and the ripe peach is a metaphor for forbidden love. Various artistic settings also shroud the whole film with beauty.
Sunshine, seaside, bicycles, guitars, these youthful objects in such a romantic and elegant place, is also the fermentation agent of this love. This emotion floats soothingly above every slightest ambiguity, so similar to the summer in a small Italian town, that every frame of lazy and poetic picture looks so trivial that it is infinitely close to the lengthiness of life, but it is also secret enough to belong only to Elioz's crush. The director harnesses his own style of high-speed editing and eye-catching close-ups, and the transfer of the camera and the agility of the mind complement each other in this film, delicately depicting the intersection and collision of emotions.
Another point that must be mentioned is the soundtrack of the film. Singer Sufjan Stevenson contributed two great pieces of music to the audience, "Mystery of Love" and "Visions of Gideon", with a psychedelic voice and a slight sad rhythm, which is a unique summer sadness, summer finale.
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In this film, Luca Guadagnino is faithful to the spiritual essence of the original book and has an innovative adaptation, so that the film presents a depressing and painful style from the previous "gay films", basically without involving sexual orientation, family opposition, and social obstacles. It brings together all the most beautiful elements of this romance: swimming, lake, country; nostalgia, coziness, summer; flesh, intimacy, taboo; hormones, youth, crush; hazy, sweet, and happiness that will eventually be lost and indulged in. A lot of times I prefer to think of it as a simple love film, it talks about growth, it talks about love, but it doesn't talk about the same sex.
Timothy Chalame also contributed good acting skills in it, and he was nominated for the 75th Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama Category for this film, and since then his star path has been very smooth, with a surprise appearance in "Miss Bird" and the recent "Little Women" that has received a lot of attention. Deep eyes, half-length curly hair, thin body, sweet tea will be Elio's face of affection of the green and youthful interpretation of the three points into the wood.
When Oliver asked him to play a piano piece, he kept adapting the tune, and only after Oliver left did he play back the original song, which was a manifestation in front of the lover; in the car, he wanted Oliver to sit next to him, but in the end it was not very pleasant, this was in front of the lover' helplessness, he would feel Oliver's breath deeply when no one was there, and immediately return to the original, this is the timidity in front of the lover; he came to him, carefully asked, "Are you happy that I came here?" "This is a temptation in the presence of the beloved; when Oliver leaves he pretends to be calm, but finally appears to cry on the phone, and I try my best to send you on the train, but I do not have the courage to send myself home, which is the dignity in front of the beloved.
As the original book says:
I had no idea that I would bring him here not only to show him my little world, but also to ask my little world to accept him, so that I could know him in my summer afternoon alone, judge him, see if he was suitable for here, and accept him again, so that I could come back here to reminisce. I came here to escape from the known world and to invent another world that belongs to me. I was introducing him to my place of departure. And all I have to do is to list the works I have read here and he will know the places I have traveled. Love is a show-off.
The most classic shot of the film is at the end of the film, the snow outside the window, the lake is frozen. Elio had just received a phone call to learn that Oliver was about to get married, sitting in front of the fire, with tears in his eyes. The fire flickers, the memories flood and call you by your own name over and over again. He has gone far, and the teenager has not been able to find his true self in the remaining long years. The director used a long shot to point his tearful eyes. In the original book, the description of this paragraph is more detailed:
Elio sat down at the fire, tears in his eyes, tears in his eyes, and indifference in his eyes, as if in just a few minutes he had spent that summer again, and many more times in his life.
Roland Barthes said: "Tears are meant to prove that sadness is not an illusion. This incredibly beautiful, dreamy summer teenage affair is not an illusion. For Oliver, it was a six-week relationship, while for Elio, it would take a lifetime to come out.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > same-sex movies deserve no discrimination</h1>
In recent years, gay films have increasingly entered the public eye, rather than just curled up in a corner and dancing alone. Farther away, the film focuses on centuries ago, when Wilde defended himself in Wilde's Lover: "It's a deep, spiritual love, it's almost perfect." Yet in this century, this love has been misunderstood, so deeply misunderstood that it has been described as 'love that dare not say its name', because I am in this position because of this love. Or the untold feelings of poet Rimbaud and Verlaine in the film "The Total Eclipse of the Heart" starring Little Plum; and the untold story of the famous poets Alan Ginsburg and Lucian Carr in "The Beat Generation" also appears in "Killing Ruai".
These works are more likely to leave more phenotypic forms to other things, but there are few positive conflicts that belong to this group. The real focus on this conflict may be Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" in 2006, which won the 78th Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Score, and won numerous awards.
"Brokeback Mountain" makes people deeply feel the delicate, mysterious, unknowing love that occurs in the depths of human hearts, and like all the excellent love movies before it, "Brokeback Mountain" just let it all happen to two men. The film is a milestone because it was the first hollywood film to tear off the mask of same-sex love, which is not about sex, but about love, the kind of love that stumbles, separates, and hides deep inside. The emotions expressed in the film are so complex that the audience cannot say it is a "Western" or even a gay film.
Director Ang Lee said: "This film is not a cry for gay rights, nor is it a conservative observation of homosexuality. He's a dramatist himself, and the bottom line is a love story. It can be seen that Ang Lee values precisely a universal value concept that can be vigorously promoted and foolproof: love can transcend cultural differences, and when love comes, there is no difference between heterosexual love and same-sex love. What is discrimination? Jiang Sida said in "Strange Story" that discrimination is not only always speaking ill of you; discrimination is often dividing you and me, the so-called "dissidents". Equality is far from being there to raise the flag for this group, but rather because you are making this inequality extra obvious in the process of raising the flag. And this indiscriminate treatment is exactly what we see in Call Me By Your Name.
At the end of the movie, the male protagonist's father's words tell the truth:
I envy you. In my opinion, most parents want all this to go away. Pray that their children will stop there. However, I am not such a parent, and in order to heal quickly, we have stripped ourselves of too much. You just have to remember that God has given us the body and mind only once, and your heart is exhausted before you understand it. As for your body, one day, no one wants to look at him again, and no one wants to approach. Now, you are full of sadness, pain, and now, you don't let these sad pains go away. And don't lose the joy you feel. "
Every color is brilliant and heavy, and may they be covered in a rainbow and still be happy. What exactly is love?
The author would like to send you a sentence from Rimbaud's poem:
My eternal soul
Gaze at your heart
Even though the night is lonely
The day is like a burning day