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A review with brevity (if not wit)
This is a tough review to write because Call Me By Your Name is a movie as much about powerful silences and unspoken feelings as it is about anything else.
Call Me By Your Name is part Coming of Age Story and part male-male romance set in the early 1980’s in Italy.
For those of you who did not grow up in the 80’s this was not the most enlightened time in history to be gay. To give you some context, my personal awareness of how blind I was to my own socialized homophobia came while I was watching MTV one afternoon and saw the following video (yes, they used to actually be a music channel):
So, understanding this backdrop, probably added a lot to my understanding of Oliver’s part of the story. Not only is he much older but he is also conflicted and afraid of being officially seen as gay in a world that still actively and openly discriminated against gay people.
Now, obviously, discrimination against LGBTQAI people is still happening and even in many cases legally protected (and we have a…
