Call Me By Your Name
Reviews
Elio's character is written with that all too familiar madness entwined with self-loathing that comes hand in hand with a twin flame love, and the uncertainty surrounding it. The conversation with his father towards the end unravelled me, and the ever familial ache of could-have-beens really linger in the last few pages. For fans of the film, there is a little extra story, a future not shown in the screenplay.
Highlights
Time makes us all sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.
We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.
But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
...the fumbling around people I might misread and don't want to lose and must second-guess at every turn, the desperate cunning I bring to everyone I want and crave to be wanted by...
...the urge to scramble and unscramble what was never really coded in the first place