There are different kinds of love, and the lowest of them is physical love, i.e. Sex.
Unfortunately, our current vocabulary is so poor that we use the same word "love" for sex, for a mother's love for her child, and even for faith in our Spiritual God-Father.
In the logline for this film, we read "... romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and an older man..." But was it really a romance, i.e. Love story, or something else?
The plot of the film is constructed in such a way that the viewer at first naively believes that this is a kind of physical love of equal partners. In other words, romance.
This illusion lasts until Elio tells Oliver "God, we wasted so many days! Why you didn't give me a sign?", meaning that they could have started having sex much sooner.
In turn, Oliver's response throws us back to the ground when he replies "I gave you a hint when I touched you on the 'football' field."
This phrase means that 30+-year-old Oliver deliberately seduced a teenager Elio, who is half the age of his partner. This deliberate physical action and the consequences that follow it, we can not by no means call "love story, i.e. Romance." Even according to our undeveloped vocabulary, the real name for this act is SEDUCTION and this seduction is of a naive and underage boy.
After all, any physical action of a person, such as a touch, is determined primarily by mental intention. Even a simple casual touch can trigger feelings, but touch with intent has a much more powerful effect on a person.
It is the responsibility of the producer and director of the film to convey the message in the logline as accurately as possible, i.e. It's not romance, but a seduction.
In general, the film was shot at a high-quality level.
Unfortunately, our current vocabulary is so poor that we use the same word "love" for sex, for a mother's love for her child, and even for faith in our Spiritual God-Father.
In the logline for this film, we read "... romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and an older man..." But was it really a romance, i.e. Love story, or something else?
The plot of the film is constructed in such a way that the viewer at first naively believes that this is a kind of physical love of equal partners. In other words, romance.
This illusion lasts until Elio tells Oliver "God, we wasted so many days! Why you didn't give me a sign?", meaning that they could have started having sex much sooner.
In turn, Oliver's response throws us back to the ground when he replies "I gave you a hint when I touched you on the 'football' field."
This phrase means that 30+-year-old Oliver deliberately seduced a teenager Elio, who is half the age of his partner. This deliberate physical action and the consequences that follow it, we can not by no means call "love story, i.e. Romance." Even according to our undeveloped vocabulary, the real name for this act is SEDUCTION and this seduction is of a naive and underage boy.
After all, any physical action of a person, such as a touch, is determined primarily by mental intention. Even a simple casual touch can trigger feelings, but touch with intent has a much more powerful effect on a person.
It is the responsibility of the producer and director of the film to convey the message in the logline as accurately as possible, i.e. It's not romance, but a seduction.
In general, the film was shot at a high-quality level.
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