Truly an amazing British film. The exploration of themes of racism, class, masculinty and Thatcher's Britain are done with brilliant subtlety. Too often do British films become too macro and try to encompass too much meta narrative nowadays, think BBC productions.
This film tells a real story. Stephen Graham makes this film. He embodies the gammon archetype extremely well to the point where it makes me think if he was one before being an actor lol. I can feel the…
Why is this film not mentioned more
This film is a brilliant exploration of womanhood and specifically the shame and alienation that comes with it. There is one woman who is silent, who has shut down completely from all societal expectations of womanhood and motherhood. There is another woman who believes that these societal ideals are to be followed, that what is being if not acting in your role? That being the role of a woman. These two women are…
Gay Lolita.
That is basically what this film is and honestly it does it well.
The plot of the film however I found to be quite predictable, I had kinda figured out half-way through the movie how it was gonna end. The summer fling would have to end and poor beautiful Chalamet would be sad.
What kind of perturbed me is Oliver seemingly leading on a very confused teenager and seemed to know he was as well. Elio clearly was…
Such a great exploration of existential existence. Poses some many interesting questions to the viewer. Not to mention the amazing creative direction of the film: bizarre, wacky and sinister.
