Call Me By Your Name
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Anonymous
| Finally saw it last night. Thought it was visually beautiful, but couldn't shake the feeling it was NAMBLA propaganda/fantasy porn. Kind of ick. |
Anonymous
I have thought this too. I’m surprised it’s getting so much praise considering how Hollywood has gone all in on the Me Too movement. The age difference is gross and inappropriate. |
Anonymous
Nonsense. Age of consent in Europe, is 14-16. Only the Vatican City in Italy has it at 18 and they definitely were not there. Idiot. |
Anonymous
I think what made it creepy is that the 17 year old actor looks much younger ( like 15, even though he is in his 20s) and the older actor looks much older than 24 ( because he is) Personally, people talk about the "attraction" those two had but, I didn't see it. Book displayed more compatibility and I didn't like the changes from the book. |
Anonymous
It is. Armie Hammer’s character uses grooming techniques: http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/02/15/author-call-me-by-your-name-abuse |
Anonymous
| I didn't understand why in the film they couldn't make them, say, 18 and 22 sted of 17 and 24. |
Anonymous
I’m the PP. Call me a prudish American all you want, but 14 year olds are too young to consent to sex, and I’d have a problem with my 17 year old sleeping with a 24 year old. |
Anonymous
Is he 17 or in his 20s? I do agree that someone in their mid-teens with someone in their mid-20s is inappropriate, even if it is legal in some places. I'd cut them a little bit of slack since this was apparently portraying an era when homosexuality was more taboo and you didn't have Grinder to easily find age-appropriate guys who were ready to go. Also, when are already cast as a sexual "deviant" by society, it becomes much easier to start doing even more "deviant" things. I think this sort of age difference would be less common in gay circles today. |
Anonymous
| Think off the top of your head all of the movies with heterosexual relationships involving a 17-year-old female and a male in his early 20s, and then wonder why you think this is so unacceptable. |
Anonymous
| making Kevin Spacey actions seem "normal" |
Anonymous
Off the top of my head I really can’t think of any. Help me out. Is Big with Tom Hanks unacceptable because he’s 12 but looks like he’s mid 20s? |
Anonymous
Big counts. Other movies with age-inappropriate relationships include Twilight, Lolita, Animal House, The Crush, Tadpole, The Graduate, American Pie, Wild Things, Manhattan and probably a dozen other Woody Allen movies. |
Anonymous
Some of those examples are older women with younger men. And Lolita is one of the most controversial books ever written. |
Anonymous
Kevin Spacey straight-up assaulted boys using force (allegedly, but there are multiple accusations). That's going quite a bit further than just an inappropriate age difference. |
Anonymous
| Anther thing that made me feel it was sort of propaganda was the way the father reacted. As if every man could completely understand why the son would be drawn to a relationship like that and the way the father glorified it. To me, it was a really supportive treatment of pederasty. |