Beautiful picture, full of plot holes

Rating: Null/10 (8 February 2019)

Pros
1. I liked the awesome picture.
2. Chalamet's performance was 10/10, saved the film.
3. The scene with the father at the end.... it's awesome. By the way, when Elio asked his father whether his mother knows, he means whether she knows about his father having homosexual tendencies in the past, not whether she knows about him and Oliver.
4. I liked the detail with the fly.
Cons:
1. Oliver does NOT look mid 20s, more like mid 30s. This made a lot of scenes have a different tone than intended.
2. There isn't enough communication between the 2 characters in the beginning of the film so that they can communicate that well near the monument. The monument talk was ridiculous and not clear at all (imagine, it's not clear to the viewer what they're talking about!). The most apparent explanation to the viewer is that Elio admits to Oliver that he is inexperienced sexually, in a general way. Nothing to do with homosexuality. They somehow understand each other.
3. We are being spoon-fed the movie in needless moments. The mother reading to the father and son having a 1-on-1 correspondence with what's happening in the movie made me feel that my intelligence is being underestimated. On the other hand, in other moments the movie is less understandable than needed (see point 2)
4. Oliver is very unlikable from Elio at the beginning of the film. It's not made clear how he came to like him after all. All of his spontaneous reactions towards Oliver are negative. When you feel a specific way you show it via microexpressions, even if you want to hide it because you don't want to admit it. This was not shown at all. The transition from "I don't like him at all" to "I am head over heels for him" didn't feel natural, like at all. The fact that Oliver was objectively obnoxious the first half of the film, did not help with this.
5. We are asked to sympathize with the 2 main male characters, but the are being very rude to the girls they have been attracting. Elio's flirt approaches HIM after all he has done to her and asks to remain friends. Yeah, it doesn't work this way in real life.