In the weeks that we’d been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the other bank, where time stops and heaven reaches down to earth and gives us that ration of what is from birth divinely ours. We looked the other way. We spoke about everything but. But we’ve always known, and not saying anything now confirmed it all the more. We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.
Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman (dir) Luca Guadagnino
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.
okay.
first, the fact that Elio’s dream (or Oliver’s?), was to be able to be together
in public, without hiding, makes me want to cry.
Also, I was wondering who this kid was when I first saw that dream sequence, and after watching the film, again, I think he’s actually one of Elio’s friends or relatives, since he’s seen hanging out with everyone on the scene where Mr. Perlman asks Elio to play something on the piano and he says he doesn’t feel like it.
So
that made me wonder, why would he be included in the dream? It didn’t make much
sense to me at first, but after giving it some thought, I believe the fact that
this kid, who is someone close to Elio, his friend or relative, is seen with
them, laughing and just being together, having a good time, simply shows how
much Elio wanted to be able to just be out, in the open with Oliver, around his
friends, around his family, without having to hide. This dream sequence shows
them having the time of their lives, laughing, hugging, doing everything they wish they could have
done, like being together, in the open, around friends and family.
I DON’T KNOW IF SOMEONE ALREADY POINTED THIS OUT, it’s
just something I realized and it made my heart break, once again.
