Notice how Oliver appears to be in a completely submissive role here, curling into Elio, seeking comfort, that little smile of contentment. Let him be protected at all costs.
NGL I think it’s super necessary for someone to put that scene in Men, Women, and Children of Ansel Elgort lifting Timmy like a sack of flour to the “Time of Your Life” song in Dirty Dancing. I MEAN COME ON
hahahaha! I was going to say poor Timmy and now I’m crying! hahahaha!
Toward the end, Elio returns home to his empty bedroom, wearing Billowy. This shot destroys me and reminds me of this part of the novel:
“The symmetry of it all, or was it the emptied, seemingly ransacked neatness of his room, tied a knot in my throat. It reminded me less of a hotel room when you wait for the porter to help you take your things downstairs after a glorious stay that was ending too soon, than of a hospital room after all your belongings have been packed away, while the next patient, who hasn’t been admitted yet, still waits in the emergency room exactly as you waited there yourself a week earlier.”
A while back I heard my friend (male) insult another dude by saying, “You look like the kind of guy who wouldn’t go to Wal-Mart to buy his girlfriend a box of tampons” and I still think about that crowning insult sometimes
My dad once called another guy “someone who thinks loading the dishwasher once in a while makes him less of a man”
I like your dad already
one time my dad’s boss was giving him shit for always leaving work early so he could get home and help my mom with me when i was a newborn and his boss said “i’ve never changed a diaper in my life” really proudly and my dad responded “i’d be ashamed to ever admit i was that worthless of a husband”
