Left me speechless

Rating: 10/10 (30 January 2019)

This movie is a masterpiece, heck, calling it a masterpiece is an understatement. I have never seen a movie so touching and intimate. Not gonna lie, when I started watching the movie It seemed a bit boring to me, but the more I watched the more I was glued to the screen. The dialogues were well thought out and felt natural, the interactions between characters looked realistic. Over the time I became more and more interested in Elio's life, sympathizing with him, being able to understand what he's feeling.
Many people bring up pedophilia when talking about this movie, and all I want to say about that: it's bull. First of all, Elio is 17, which is above the age of consent. Secondly: The movie is not about that, it's not about emphasizing the age gap, it's about pure, unconditional love.
What I also love is the fact that the word gay wasn't even used once throughout the movie. How I said before, It's not a movie about specific type of love, it's just about love... Well, to be honest, it's also about a heartbreak. Oliver's and Elio's summer fling ended up in flames. No matter how much they loved each other it all had to end. Oliver can't stay forever and eventually found someone else, leaving Elio shattered. The last scenes portrayed Elio's feelings perfectly. The action takes part in winter, portraying the emptiness and the death of what Oliver and Elio had. The moody blue lighting also helps to portray how upset Elio is over Oliver finding someone else. After the call with Oliver ends, you expect for Elio to throw a fit, scream, shout, but you get none of that. He just sits and cries while staring at a fireplace. And my boy Timothee acts throughout the credits. You know that the film has ended, but you just can't peel your eyes away from the screen and continue to look at Elio crying. And then bam, he looks directly into the camera. It was a breaking point for me, I started bawling my eyes out after that. This movie changed my outlook on life and love. I never felt the same after watching this film. I would watch this movie again and again and again.