Maab Mohammed asked this question about Call Me by Your Name:
Does oliver truely loved Elio I'm not talking here about lust or sexual love, and why oliver choiced to end the things that they had, don't you think that oliver personality somehow mystery,we never went inside his head like Elio, we never know how he does he feel, how thinks, what is he like inside, Tell me what do you though about his personality? His traits, his emotions, his thoughts, him as oliver?
Chase I have this same question. I thought Oliver loved Elio, but in a far more realistic way he was mature enough to understand--it being the early 80s and…moreI have this same question. I thought Oliver loved Elio, but in a far more realistic way he was mature enough to understand--it being the early 80s and what gay relationships looked like then was not even what it became a decade later in the 90s. Where Elio was so young, to fall in love completely at 17 is far less guarded and simple--then to see the quick turn of gay acceptance I can see Elio never moving past Oliver in the 90s , wondering what if, in a way Oliver was forced to a decade before given life's trappings. (less)
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