If you want to know Why do gay men love "Call Me By Your Name" here are my 2 cents.
I was a gay kid I grew up in the 1980's & it was terrible. It was the start of the aids epidemic & gay bashing seem to be a sport. In many places all over the world it still is.
At school I was bullied and felt like I had no place safe. When I was a freshmen on the first day of high school someone wrote "Fag" on my locker.
So I never used the locker again the entire time I was in school. It was too "Risky". Sophomore year someone wrote "Fag" on my new OP Jacket. Afraid of what my parents would say when I brought it home I decided to "Throw it away" and act like it was stolen.
This is what happened to me. Sad thing is that "Yes I was gay" but I never acted on it. It was drilled into your head gay sex =death. I was in my twenties by the time I came out and becoming the man I was born to be.
When you are a straight guy growing up you have heroes and role models. When your gay "You feel your on a sinking ship" with no life rafts. You are drowning not in an ocean but in your own tears.
So this brings me to the film "Call Me By Your Name" Set in 1983 in northern Italy, Call Me by Your Name chronicles the romantic relationship between a 17-year-old, Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old graduate-student assistant to Elio's father Samuel (Michael Stuhlbarg), an archaeology professor.
What was nice was the film did not deal with AIDS, COMING OUT, or politics. It's just a love story. I do not want to give too much away but it was nice to see a film that I could relate too.
What is a miracle is that since the film takes place in 1983 none of the issues you think it would deal are not talked about at all. This is a relief. The story is really about 2 men and a romantic Summer romance.
I was a gay kid I grew up in the 1980's & it was terrible. It was the start of the aids epidemic & gay bashing seem to be a sport. In many places all over the world it still is.
At school I was bullied and felt like I had no place safe. When I was a freshmen on the first day of high school someone wrote "Fag" on my locker.
So I never used the locker again the entire time I was in school. It was too "Risky". Sophomore year someone wrote "Fag" on my new OP Jacket. Afraid of what my parents would say when I brought it home I decided to "Throw it away" and act like it was stolen.
This is what happened to me. Sad thing is that "Yes I was gay" but I never acted on it. It was drilled into your head gay sex =death. I was in my twenties by the time I came out and becoming the man I was born to be.
When you are a straight guy growing up you have heroes and role models. When your gay "You feel your on a sinking ship" with no life rafts. You are drowning not in an ocean but in your own tears.
So this brings me to the film "Call Me By Your Name" Set in 1983 in northern Italy, Call Me by Your Name chronicles the romantic relationship between a 17-year-old, Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old graduate-student assistant to Elio's father Samuel (Michael Stuhlbarg), an archaeology professor.
What was nice was the film did not deal with AIDS, COMING OUT, or politics. It's just a love story. I do not want to give too much away but it was nice to see a film that I could relate too.
What is a miracle is that since the film takes place in 1983 none of the issues you think it would deal are not talked about at all. This is a relief. The story is really about 2 men and a romantic Summer romance.