Review of Call Me by Your Name (2017) by 909Dot — 22 Jan 2018

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is one of the most beautiful, truthful movies you will see. Its poetry; an ode to love, life and discovering who you are. Its ravishing from beginning to end. I wont go into details or the plot, thats something you should experience for yourself.

I do have one thing to say. I've read on this site some negative reviews suggesting the glamorization of pedophilia. THIS IS COMPLETELY FALSE! Our society’s intense focus on age and sexuality is a relatively recent notion, not a long-settled one, and that while the law may have a legitimate need to be blunt and rigid, our art does not.

In my view, it’s reasonable to have different opinions of the unconventional relationship in Call Me by Your Name, but it’s not reasonable to say the movie endorses pedophilia, or really any kind of power-based abuse, just because it depicts that relationship.

(there is not ONE predatory moment between the two characters in the film.) If we go down that censorious and unnuanced path with our art, very little will survive the trip. Oh, and I also read a negative review that said if this was an older guy and a younger girl, people would freak out, well, thats already happened.

Its called DIRTY DANCING. Same age difference. Im done now.