-"Do you know anything ... Do you know anything ..."
The film "Please Call Me Your Name" is based on the novel of the same name by Andre Simon, and tells a same-sex love story that happened on the Italian Riviera in 1980s. In summer, the striking bright green and the scorching sunshine interpret each other, and the emotional ups and downs are intertwined with the exciting soundtrack. The whole film presents a youthful aesthetic feeling and a relaxed retro feeling. Although the ending is sad, it still reflects the pure and profound feelings you want to say and rest.
Please Call Me Your Name, like Brokeback Mountain directed by Ang Lee, tells the story of two young people's throbbing and lust in a certain period of time. Brokeback Mountain is located in Shan Ye, where the wind is clear and the trees are clear. Please shoot it in a green Italian country town in the 1980s. These two unusual "events" both appeared in the beautiful natural scenery. Two originally strange souls collided with each other like an electric flint under the opportunity of a certain fate, and an irresistible emotional spark was born and burned in each other's souls.
Different from Brokeback Mountain, which shows the deep feeling of a lifetime, Please Take only extracts the most wonderful local narrative of a relationship, that is, the part where they are moved and madly in love, and the film comes to an abrupt end in its passionate love section. We don't know whether the two leading men in the film will have a lingering follow-up story like Brokeback Mountain, but their youthful and wonderful summer romance is enough to make people sigh and cherish.
The whole story is simple and clear, with no fancy skills and no feeling of showing off. It just shows a kind of beautiful and regretful emotion with light and soft light and proper soundtrack, which is both fresh and gentle in Japanese literary films and lazy and beautiful in French romantic films. The hormones of youth are particularly touching and wonderful in the sunshine and shadows of trees in midsummer. Elliot is an Italian teenager, aged 17. He met his father's research assistant Oliver in the summer vacation. Oliver is an American college student. He loves music and is obsessed with dancing in it. This is a big boy full of vigor and vitality. Elio is like a tender and thin brother in front of him (what a lovely mount ...). Elio writes music, reads books, plays the piano and guitar in this long summer. His delicate face and thin figure all reveal a careless temperament, and his gestures are unique to teenagers.
In the first half of the film, the narrative is mainly based on Eliot's perspective. Oliver and Elio are just ordinary friends at this time. However, under the narrative lens, Elio is obviously "circuitous" and has wild ideas about Oliver. Just like the teenager in Seeds of Love, he will do things that people who have a crush on him would do, such as dodging eyes, paying involuntary attention, being jealous silently, and sneaking into Oliver's room ... But at this time, Oliver's mind is not known to the audience, and they may even suspect that Elio is just wishful thinking, because Oliver has already started dating girls. Excited, Elliot started dating another girl. At this point in the film, Oliver and Elio seem to be immersed in their wonderful love story. Until a turning point in the middle of the film, Oliver and Elio travel alone, and the warm bouquet that has been hidden in their hearts is finally released in the scorching sun, filled with intoxicating fragrance and bright colors.
Two people who showed their hearts to each other, outside the eyes and ears of everyone, began to date and became intimate. The film doesn't have any overexposed sex scenes, and it turns the lens quickly and timely every time, but it is actually a film full of lust. In fact, many details are obviously suggestive (the most obvious is of course that Olive and Elio are always half naked). For example, Elio sneaked into Oliver's room, unlike the girl played by Faye Wong in "Chongqing Forest", but put Oliver's underwear on her head to smell the smell (so there is really a difference between girls and boys' secret love ...), for example, Elio was lying in bed playing with peaches, and the juice of peaches flowed on Elio's half-naked body ... but it was these provocative shots that directly made the off-screen audience feel comfortable.
However, it is still a fresh film. The story background of the film is an Italian town in the 1980s, full of elegant exotic customs and retro atmosphere. It happened in a hot summer, and the endless green leaves and golden scorching sunshine also created the beautiful throb of first love. The story of youth always seems to be inseparable from summer, just like the unique "smell of burning weeds" mentioned in sunny days. The romance between Olive and Elio is picturesque in the romantic atmosphere created by the film, as if they fell in love in a dream instead of meeting in a summer vacation. The director is very good at making poetic pictures. The film can be beautiful and moving, and the handling of details is indispensable.
For example, when Olive and Elio showed their true feelings for the first time, they talked around a huge sculpture and walked opposite each other. The sculpture covered Auliffe, and Elliot repeatedly said, "Do you know what it is ... Do you know what it is ...", as if talking to himself, revealing their sincerity to Auliffe, and the soft music sounded, holding Elliot's words tightly, which was quite touching. This is the same as Jia Baoyu's first confession to Lin Daiyu in A Dream of Red Mansions. It's also like Elliot's Crazy in Love muttering "Don't worry, don't worry ..." Another example is the drunken kiss between Olive and Elliot. They are holding hands in the dim light and kissing in front of the dark wall, just like a pair of fairy tale lovers who will never be separated. The scene is also beautiful.
Please call me your name and make no secret of the carnal part of love, but miraculously, Plato, who pursues the love of the soul, doesn't like this carnal desire, and this carnal desire has also come alive in this film, gaining the same purity and nobility as the love of the soul. The main reason is estimated to be the soft and beautiful narrative atmosphere set by the director in the whole film, and all elements have gained unique aesthetic taste after being integrated into this atmosphere, which is also for the audience.
"That kiss and your shirt are all I got from you." Olive left and got engaged soon after. He chose to give up this relationship. At the end of the film, Elio cried for the camera, feeling sad like an onion being peeled off layer by layer. Their love is as beautiful as a fairy tale, and the ending is as predicted.
In the film, Elio's father said a word to Elio, which made the film reach a touch of life higher than love: "In order to heal quickly, we deprived ourselves of too many things. Every time we start a new relationship, we can pay less, but don't let ourselves feel that we have not failed, don't let these pains disappear, and don't lose the happiness we feel. " Whether in love or in the whole course of life, what we really feel is the most worth cherishing and remembering. We can't get everything we want, we can only feel and cherish it with the strength of our hearts, so that our life can be so heavy. Just like the "absurd character" written by the French writer Camus: I don't want it, I just want to experience everything.