"Movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts. When I go to a great movie I can live somebody else's life for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief. This is a liberalizing influence on me. It gives me a broader mind. It helps me to join my family of men and women on this planet. It helps me to identify with them, so I'm not just stuck being myself, day after day. The great movies enlarge us, they civilize us, they make us more decent people." - Roger Ebert
The dads monologue at the end really made me more hopeful and also changed my attitude towards life. Life means getting hurt. But letting the feelings of hurt roll through you instead of suppressing them means youll also be able to feel the good feelings that will come again eventually
It's pretty crazy how he said all the abuse that's shown in here didn't happen. Those are Shia's words. He said his dad spanked him once. Other than that his dad was so loving towards him. He said their relationship was Rocky but not once was his dad not loving towards him. He was always around for him.
I’ve seen this movie a few times I don’t even notice that these are two gay guys I notice two people in the moment falling in love or falling for each other fantastic movie fantastic performances all around
I’m really struggling with my attention span and with connecting to art atm (depression, of course.) This analysis made me appreciate and connect with the film more. Thank you!
They didn't go to the moon is why they are acting like that. They felt terrible that they were lying to everyone. They were men of honor and were forced to lie
How heartwarming that he’s found himself to forgiveness given the fact that his dad literally never abused him. He’s admitted publicly to this. He says that the abuse depicted in this film is “fucking nonsense.”
THIS IS A GREAT Film. Take away the relationship between two guys, the whole scope of this beautiful film in more ways than one, captures the essence, and map of the human heart I Love Director Luca D's work, especially this film, shot in his hometown, Luca he sure keeps it real and natural, if this was a story between two women, / straight couple, it will still stand out, for its simplicity in conveying the story. this is the beauty, of a foreign director, instead of an American director, (American directors seem to go over the top as they do in most American flicks) my favorite scene in the flick, Elio with his mum and dad, and with dad, at the end, is just heartwarming and beautiful!
I loved this video!! This movie instantly became one of my all time favorites when I watched it. Also, what’s the song you used at the beginning of the “beach” section?
Ever since I first watched this movie, I made it a habit that I watch this movie every year on 31st August, no matter where I am and what I do. As much as depressing and realistic it is, somehow strangely this movie give me a ray of hope. Indeed there is a tragic beauty in this.
BTW, Camilla is the one who is dreaming. She put a hit on the blonde girl who 'sole' the part, and who 'stole' her boyfriend-director. Diane in Camilla's dream represents the girl that she had murdered.
Great essay on a masterpiece. When she's at the jukebox, plays the music, and stares right the camera ... it's the most stunning and sexiest forth wall break ever. It's like she's taking flight from the movie itself to somewhere else, transcendent of the narrative.
She looks right at the audience/us ....me and stares right into my soul. With a full on masterpiece of a song taking you right where she's at. Absolutely stunning!!
movie was found out to be all lies... not only did his father never abuse him, he wasnt even living with him lol..... during even stevens he lived with his mom lol
Celine left the interpretation of the script to Adele, who compared it to a skier racing down the mountain, knowing where the curves are, plotting the run in your mind. There were two requirements from Celine; that she would close her eyes at some point and end on an inhalation. To fully understand the brilliance of Celine and the absolute mastery Adele has of her craft, here is Celine’s script for the final shot: “There is everything. There is surprise, thrill, a beating heart, anticipation, melancholy, focus, the blush in her cheeks, remembrance, sadness, and her deepening breath. All the behaviors of a woman you used to know well, whom you loved looking at, whom you loved period. But there are also things you never noticed before, maybe because they are novelties like that wrinkle in the corner of her eye, maybe because they are things you could not see before and had to discover for yourself.”
Such a beautiful beautiful film that just breaks my heart. I want to just crawl into their summer romance and live in that time capsule with them forever.
The last shots in the movie. I interpreted it as "All these areas were someones memories. Now no one is left to remember them. And the world continues on."
For some reason I always was moved by the ambient shots of the city environment in this movie, perhaps exactly for this reason. Regardless of one's own personal experiences, the world continues on. Beautiful.
I didnt like the actor choice for teenage Shia , he looks more like a young Matt Damon than a young Shia LaBeouf 😮 that said I think there is more to this story than is shown in the movie , being a child star in Hollywood leaves them wide open to abuse and vile people 😮 we all heard the stories about what happens to them 😢😢
