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[telepathically] Eugene Allerton: I’m not weird
Tale
In 1950s Mexico City, a 40-year-old American expatriate lives a solitary life in the midst of a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student leads the man to finally establish a meaningful connection with someone.. Daniel Craig was ultimately the one who convinced Luca Guadagnino to play Drew Starkey after watching Guadagnino’s audition tapes and saying “That’s the guy” after seeing Starkey ..
I’m not weirdWilliam Lee: I knowEugene Allerton: I’m just disembodied
Lee… Features Orpheus (1950). This is one of the most boring and pretentious I’ve seen in years.
Daniel Craig plays the role of the anti-hero
Except for the soundtrack that tries to breathe some life into this otherwise artificial and outdated story of an old gay man going through his depressing search for a meaning in his life. With an extremely slow pace, pseudo-intellectual dialogues, caricatured depiction of homosexuals in the 50s, the film seems to want to show how lost gay men were in those years. Drug addicted, sexually impotent, he floats in an unreal world, desperate to find an anchor.
It is sad and pathetic
The film can be seen as the trash version of the famous Luchino Visconti, Death in Venice. It could have been called Death in Mexico. After the acclaimed Call me by your name, the director seems to be making a mistake in producing a new work of value.
