I am reading the Call Me By Your Name book and it is T O R T U R E. It makes me want to say things that I have long since taught myself not to say, about how the relationship between reader and writer parallels romance, how we conceive of ourselves as known via misprision.
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Also oh my god the CMBYN book is SO racist. And it was written in 2007!!!!
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Oh my god Elio’s dad’s speech is even WORSE in the book I am dying. “Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version” WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME ANDRE ACIMAN?
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FUCKING COR CORDIUM ARE YOU KIDDING ME FUCK THAT SHIT I WOULD HAVE HIT HIM IN HIS WHOLE FACE
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Sigh. At least the ending was somewhat expected and therefore not a brutal murder of my soul.
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Anyway Luca Guadagnino should go full White Boyhood/After Midnight or whatever and shoot one follow-up scene next year, another when Timothee is 32, and another when he is pushing 40.
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And also next year they should shoot the whole Rome sequence, and then release a movie in 20 years that is the Rome sequence intercut with the two reunion scenes and hopefully by then I will have found somebody to hold me as I WEEP UNCONTROLLABLY THROUGHOUT.
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Also PUT VIMINI BACK IN THE STORY!!! *huffy face gif*
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