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Genre: Film & Animation
Date of upload: Apr 13, 2018 ^^
Rating : 4.96 (375/36,827 LTDR)
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I’ve just seen the film 16 times in 7 weeks – and I can’t come over it. This is actually my life with my friend Hans (we spent 30 years together) concentrated into 6 weeks in Italy. Met him 1984, he looked like Oliver with his hairy chest, and I was Elio, but just 2 years younger, exactly, we were both born the 21st of July. Had a wonderful life together until Hans passed away the other year – and left me alone in chaos – as Oliver did to young Elio. This is the most perfect film I ever seen, the love between them is amazing – like the 30 years we got – but just a couple of weeks for them… Jan Hermansson, Sweden
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I thought this was one of the most powerful and symbolic scenes of the movies. Notice the techniques Guadagnino uses as Elio and Oliver navigate this conversation. When they first start talking about smoking, multiple cars and mopeds drive by, creating a loud buzz and noise over the scene. This matches the meaninglessness of their conversation about smoking. It is a conversation that ultimately means nothing. It is empty, it holds zero significance. It is simply noise. There are no more vehicles or noise like this until the very end of the scene. For the rest of the scene Elio and Oliver rotate around the statue. They begin far apart as Elio brings up how little he knows. Here, they are distant from one another both physically and in the way they speak. "Because I wanted you to know" Elio half speaks to himself. As they continue to move around the statue, this directly represents the way they move and dance around the point of their conversation. Neither of them actually says what they're feeling or what they are talking about. Deep down they both know, but instead they dance around the point for the whole conversation, just like they dance around the statue. Until finally they meet, "these are things we cant speak about" and the door (of the car) is quite literally shut on the conversation. All of this being done under the watch of the church. They can't fully express themselves due to the ever present judgement and stifling expectations of society. This scene screams volumes. So so incredible and I think it's a perfect example of one of the key themes of the movie: that love should be expressed. It felt like for most of the movie, Elio and Oliver dance around their feelings like they do in this scene. And in this scene it is quite frustrating to watch. I think many viewers watching the screen want to tell the characters to "just say how you actually feel!!" And through that discomfort and frustration, Luca is returning that exact same sentiment back onto you. Share the love you feel you in your life because it's frustrating and confusing when you don't. Don't hold back and never be afraid to be open and honest with those you love.
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At first I didn't understand this scene, I didn't pay close attention to it, now that I'm re-watching I come to the realisation that this scene is a masterpiece (like the movie itself) Elio declaring his love to Oliver without even saying really saying it. This scene is so simple yet so complicated and I think that's what I like about it. God, this movie is amazing.
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I am 67 and this movie haunts me. The scene at the train station where Elio and Oliver part had my mind rushing back to 1979 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, when I was in the U.S. Navy. I was 23 and Javier was 18. It was our destiny that we met the innocent way we did. We spent three glorious days together, walking, talking, joking, laughing, eating... I promised to find him the next time my ship was in port. Our last day slowly wound its way through the morning, the afternoon, but finally evening arrived. We made the day last until around midnight when our meandering brought us to the landing at the bay where my ships' liberty boat would take me away from Javier. I wanted to cry so badly but didn't want to draw the attention of my drunken shipmates also waiting for the boat. Then it started to rain lightly, and I realized the gods were crying for us.
We finally had to be apart...
The next year when my ship went back to the Mediterranean and arrived at Palma, I rushed to the sailor bar where I knew two of Javier's lesbian friends worked. They told me Javier had been drafted into the Spanish navy for his two years mandatory service. I never saw my sweet, sweet Javier again.
Javier has been in my mind and heart for 44 years now. I think about him and I have a little cry occasionally.
Elio, I understand...
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Elio's being reminded/ warned by two things in this scene to not fall for Oliver:
- the bus is reminding him of that Oliver has to leave soon and that he shouldn't fall in love with him
- the church is telling him that homosexuality is not accepted by society nor by the catholic religion
yet he still went for it... but it was worth it :)
his heart broke when Oliver left but thanks to him he experienced the best love that he could ever find
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@rebekahdrummond2818
4 years ago
This movie has ruined me in the best way possible.
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