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Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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just added some more albums on to my ipod…🎧🖤

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Reblog this to prove your blog was made before the February 2022 tumblr resurgence

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Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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Emily Dickinson // Virginia Woolf

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Okay, so. At the risk of sounding in-cre-di-bly stupid, could you pull apart the line: "If only you knew how little I know about the things that matter." for me, and explain why this is Elio 'confessing his feelings' towards Oliver?

That’s a very interesting question, actually. Before that scene in the piazza, Elio has never really said anything to Oliver that was this unfiltered and unrehearsed. They go back forth, about music and books, and there is definitely a lot of flirting on both sides but it mainly passes by rejected or misunderstood. They do this dance of miscommunication and talking on the surface, but not really talking about themselves or their feelings or anything that “matters” - and in Elio’s case (who has, to my understanding, not had sex yet or had feelings for anyone), what matters to him that he feels he doesn’t know anything about, is in my opinion, romance, and everything that follows with it. 

Their conversation is, on the surface, about book smarts, which they both have plenty of and very much bond over. But Elio is young and completely aware that he lacks much life experience beyond his books, at least in comparison to Oliver whom he looks up to, and who he imagines is very well-versed in such things (his imagination about what Oliver is “up to” when he disappears at night borders on the mild paranoia of a jealous housewife, let’s be real). Oliver’s “street smarts” both intimidate and attract for Elio. So, with the lines “I know nothing, Oliver” and “if only you knew how little I know about the things that matter”, what Elio is essentially saying to Oliver here can be boiled down to two things:

A) I don’t know anything about love or romantic feelings, but to me, those things are extremely important and I want to know them.

B) He wishes Oliver knew this, and he wants him to know - “If only you knew” in this instance meaning I wish you knew how much you are the thing that matters to me.

This line of dialogue also has the added layer of Elio speaking from the heart to Oliver for the first time, it’s not a dare or a contest - it’s Elio admitting a perceived weakness to Oliver. How can someone I admire so much that I want to be him ever care about me? It’s him confessing he doesn’t know anything about an aspect of life he’s only ever heard of from others - and by finally telling Oliver what he is thinking, just like that in the square, he’s letting him know that he wants him. There is also of course a longer quote about this moment in the book I could include that sheds light on book!Elio’s thoughts, but this is getting too long already. :)

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Battle of the Piave: The long take and “Call Me by Your Name”

There are two long takes of note in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name (2017), the first being a major turning point in the narrative where Elio confesses his feelings to Oliver for the first time, and the second is also the closing shot of the film, of Elio’s face looking into the fireplace, into the flames and his past. In this post, I want to discuss the former scene, and attempt a small scene analysis, of how the directing, cinematography, the editing (lack thereof), the sound, music, the dialogue, acting and blocking all come together as a whole to ultimately make this scene one of my (many) favorites in the film.

The scene lasts for rougly 4 minutes and 30 seconds, and is the longest continuous shot in the film, uninterrupted by any cuts, besides the final shot which is roughly the same length including the superimposed credits. The scene is a pivotal one in Elio and Oliver’s relationship. At this point in the film, they have not yet kissed or been intimate in any way, nor has Elio really spoken openly or admitted his feelings for Oliver to him, which is why it’s such a beautiful choice of location to have this scene happen here, in the open, public square.

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The spring is in the mountains: Lakes, rain and waterfalls in ‘Call Me by Your Name’

Water is a powerful cinematic motif in Call Me by Your Name, a thematic, metaphoric and audio-visual force of nature that binds Elio and Oliver together, and water features prominently in a majority of their scenes together. In a scene early on in the film, Elio picks up a book belonging to Oliver - The Cosmic Fragments - on the works of Greek philosopher Heraclitus. We hear Oliver’s voice reading a quote from it echoing in Elio’s mind.

”The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice, but that some things stay the same only by changing.“

This quote is a good starting point to begin to look at how the filmmakers use nature, especially water, as a storytelling tool throughout the film to say a lot of interesting things about Elio and his growing relationship with Oliver. The quote compares Elio and Oliver’s love to a flowing river, read by Oliver in Elio’s mind. Like the river in the quote, their relationship can only stay the same by changing, by letting fresh springs from the mountains into their pond - and it strongly hints at a reunion between the two of them, sometime in the future.

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