Moive Critique II
\Call Me By Your Name
Call Me by Your Name, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay winning piece, was directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman. The film was rated R, released November 24th, 2017, and the movie was 132 minutes long. The story begins in the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet) is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He meets Oliver (Armie Hammer), a doctoral student who's working as an intern for Elio's father. Elio and Oliver discover the desire they have for each other over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever. I watched the movie four times in total, each time I notice something different. I will never get tired of the theme of the movie, the music, the location, and the actors. The scene I picked it's the ending scene, the frame composition is pretty and the amount of emotions that was built within the scene is really strong. the camera is focused on Elio's face and everything else out focused.the background is set up with a window seeing the snow outside, and his mom setting up the dinner table. With a warm light coming from below it smartly used the lighting to separates Elio from the rest of the world. Even though the film ended with a supposed sad ending, from this ending scene, it doesn't make you cry but your great echos with the Elio. I think the music used during this scene is also an important factor here, it feels really clam like after the last drop of water from the bottle, you can go on with your life type of clam. It's really plain and simple yet meaningful.
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The director tried to avoid the flaws he had seen in most coming-of-age films, in which growth is often portrayed as being a result of resolving preconceived dilemmas such as an enforced choice between two lovers. He also wanted the story to follow two people at the moment, rather than focus on an antagonist or a tragedy—an approach inspired by À nos amours (1983), directed by Maurice Pialat. As someone who considers sex in film a representation of the characters' behavior and identity, Guadagnino was not interested in including explicit sex scenes in the film. He explained his intention: "I wanted the audience to completely rely on the emotional travel of these people and feel first love... It was important to me to create this powerful universality, because the whole idea of the movie is that the other person makes you beautiful—enlightens you, elevates you.
