That summer in Italy is filled with blue sky, pink peach, and young love. I cried three times when I watched Call Me By Your Name. The first time was when Elio and Oliver refused to say goodbye and went to travel together in the verdurous mountains and old towns. It is the time they can escape from everything that kept them apart from each other. The world is left alone for just two of them. The second time was Elio gazes after Oliver on the leaving train but can not find the courage to go home alone. The third time was the most heartbroken that Oliver called Elio and told him he will be getting married. He called him Oliver and he called back Elio, saying “I remember everything.”
It comes to the same question when I finished watching Blue Is The Warmest Color: Are they fortunate or not to meet and fall in love with each other? I would say the answer is yes. Elio is so lucky to meet Oliver and be close to him. From subtle temptations to the gentle intimacy, they have a romantic relationship in that summer. Love is love. That sensitive and shy boy starts to feel everything and embrace all the emotions brought by that American teenage man. Like the background music named, it is the mystery of love.
The movie is labeled as a gay movie but is beyond it. Besides the relationship between Elio and Oliver, the attitudes of Elio’s parents towards this bond is also moving, especially the words from his father in the last part of the movie. “You had a beautiful friendship, maybe more than a friendship… Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we’d want to be forgotten is no better… But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything—what a waste!"
