In the summer of 1983, the combination of Southern Italy in itself creates a strange fantasy. And as if to satisfy such fantasies, the movie <Cole Me by Your Name> deals with the story of summer, southern Italy, and the first love unfolding in it, both visually and textually, sensually and delicately. In addition, Timothy Chalamet's young and neat image is very suitable as a persona of an emotional first love movie, and the actor himself, Timothy Chalamet, is a little precocious and accurately melts into this sensual and sentimental movie.
In the summer of 1983, the combination of Southern Italy in itself creates a strange fantasy.
A magic spell that calls the memory of first love
The movie <Cole Me by Your Name> borrows the persona of Timothy Chalamet (Elio) to recall emotional memories of first love while emphasizing precocious sensuality. Also, the season of southern Italy and summer, which is the background of the film, controls the overall atmosphere of the film. For example, the image of the apricot tree and the green forest surrounding Banra's Elio is not yet fully mature. It even enhances the image of Allio by affecting the color. And the stone buildings and decorations in southern Italy shining in sunlight emphasize the overall sensuality of the film.
<Call Me By Your Name> borrows the persona of Timothy Chalamet (Elio) to recall emotional memories of first love while emphasizing precocious sensuality.
The difference between porn and art emerges in this area. Art stimulates the audience's imagination with only symbolic metaphors and colors. The way <Call Me by Your Name> shows all the memories of your first love is not outright but metaphorical. The way of showing it is not light and elegant. Lines are also not direct but indirect, and the gaze that the camera stares at is not explicit and indirect, so even though the lines are the same, they are transmitted to different depths.
O: “Why are you saying this?”
E: “I think you should know.”
O: “Because I think I should know?”
E: “I want you to know?”
E: “I want you to know.”
E: “I want you to know.”
E: “I want you to know.”
In the middle of the movie, Elio repeats exactly four times, and all four lines have different depth and breath, and their weight is different. At first, it was said to Oliver, but after that, it becomes a hopeful monologue, a deep hope, a shallow hope, and meaningless repetition. The desperate but difficult first love is expressed emotionally and symbolically by repeating the text like this. Perhaps this is an elegant and lyrical text that only the medium of film can express.
Call me by your name I will call you in my name.
O: Call me by your name. I will call you in my name.
E: Oliver.
O: Elio.
E: Oliver.
O: Elio.
The texts repeated many times since then, like magic spells, evoke various emotions such as desperate hope for first love , sexual longing, fear of failure, and hope of reunion . <Call Me by Your Name> reinforces the emotion of first love by repeating and repeating important texts. In particular, the scenes where each other calls each other in each other's names were read as the most sincere and earnest confession of love, breaking down the boundary towards each other among the numerous words of confessing love that I have seen so far, and becoming each other.
Don't throw away your precious memories and feelings.
The long summer is over. Oliver leaves, and Elio is left alone . At this time, Elio 's father notices the subtle relationship between the two and comforts him, which proceeds in a way that does not hurt anyone. Even if they break up, the two break up in a way that protects each other's self-esteem.
<Call Me by Your Name> invites Elio to accept the breakup as a part of her life and to keep her precious memories in one side of her heart.
“We ruin ourselves so much to heal quickly. Then, when you're about 30, you go bankrupt. Then every time I meet someone new, I have less and less to give.”
The film <Call Me by Your Name> talks about the memory of the first love that is prone to failure as much as desperately, and recommends that breakups also be accepted as part of life. Failure in love often leads to extreme depression and regret. And in order to get out of this depression, whether you destroy the other person or destroy yourself, you always make extreme choices. The movie <Call Me by Your Name> invites Elio to accept the breakup as a part of her life, and to keep her precious memories in one heart.
Our body and mind are given only once, and as time goes by, our body and mind wear out and we get old gradually.If we don't leave the memories of the most brilliant moments on the side of our mind, only regrets accumulate in the mind and become old day by day. Along with a thin body, even the mind may be seriously ill . That's why, a memory that was as hot and dazzling as the sun that brightened southern Italy that summer, when I could be you, that you could be me, only once in a lifetime, pure heartfelt memories, even if accompanied by painful memories The movie says it has meaning to keep.
There is a saying that love that is too painful is not love. However, because it was'sincerity', the pain is great, and if there are memories that are truly shining'with each other' rather than my own sincerity, those memories of love are worth enough. Because of this, when we accept the memories of our first love that was hot, and the memories that are too hot and the scars of the burn remain as part of our lives, our memories and emotions will be richer. In the fast passing time, when our bodies and minds become senile and eventually become insignificant, even if memories that accompany pain, if the memories of each other's sincerity and only once in a lifetime remain in one heart, the old mind will collapse. Isn't it a support that can endure? In that sense, the movie <Call Me by Your Name> is a film that depicts a lyrical first love, and at the same time, it can be said that the value of the first love can be recalled through the medium of film.