About LGBTQ in "Luca's Summer"｜Similarities with "Call Me by Your Name"

"Luca's Summer" main character Alberto's voice Jack Dylan Grazer was asked during a live broadcast if he was gay, and he responded generously with "I'm bisexual." " in the classic line: "Silenzio Bruno!". Interestingly, "Summer of Luca" is thought to hide the allegory of coming out and pays homage to "Call Me By Your Name", and Jack Dylan Grazer starred in "Call Me By Your Name" director Luca in 2020 "We are who we are" directed by Guadagnino.

▍Pixar 's version of "Call Me By Your Name"?

Before "Luka's Summer" was released, the stills were similar to the gay movie "Call Me by Your Name", and they both featured two male protagonists, which caused a lot of discussion. The following are the differences:

① The background is Italy in summer.

② The face shape, hair color and height difference of the two male protagonists roughly match.

③ There are many elements of bicycles and water in the play.

④ All are jealous because of the relationship between the other party and the woman.

⑤ The end is the farewell at the train station.

⑥ The actor of "Luka's Summer" is called Luca Paguro, and the director of "Call Me By Your Name" is called Luca Guadagnino.

▍The director denies the love element in the story

"It's about their friendship in the pre-adolescent world."

Director Enrico Casaros said the team envisioned how the story would traditionally turn to "love" when the boys met the girl Giulia on land, but they ultimately decided to set the story before the children became aware of romance, hormones and other complex entanglements.

However, is "love" or "friendship" absolutely related to complexity? If you say that children's "friendship" is pure, then "love" makes no sense. (And from the movie Alberto is full of control over Luca, and the jealousy causes disputes, you can know that the friendship in "Luca's Summer" is not like that. It's as simple as the director said.) There seems to be some prejudice against "love" and "homosexuality" among adults.

▍ Is LGBTQ Lenovo overinterpreted?

"They're just children, don't look at them with evil eyes" I see a lot of similar statements, but this also raises a strange problem - people often seem to associate "homosexuality" with "sex", but in reality Above this is not absolutely relevant.

And for the association between "Luka's Summer" and LGBTQ, not only because of the similarity with the gay movie "Call Me by Your Name", "Luka's Summer" does have too many places to associate with LGBTQ, such as the male protagonist. Luca and the heroine Giulia do not follow traditional gender-based roles. For example, Alberto is jealous because of the emotional establishment between Luca and Giulia, and the male protagonist's identity as a sea monster is not accepted by everyone and needs to be hidden. The situation is very similar, in a way, it's like a movie about coming out.

Pete Docter, Pixar's chief creative officer, is open-minded about the deeper meaning people see in the film: "It does become this metaphor for the other, and everyone can be specific about how it relates to them. "

▍The film is inspired by the director's childhood experiences

But the film is also based on the childhood experiences of Italian-born director Enrico Casarosa, who was also growing up in Italy during a summer when the director named the character after his important childhood friend Alberto. Alberto's in real life and in the movies are equally tall, smart, and otherworldly, and they kick their shy friends out of their shells.

"That kind of friendship pushes you into trouble, pushes you to change, pushes you to find yourself."

▍Not just sexual minorities

The director said that the three children at the heart of the film discovered something at a critical moment in their lives, when they first stepped out of their comfort zone. The void created by loneliness is important in this work because it also makes room for important friendships. "We want them to see each other and they'll give each other something," "they have a sense of loneliness deep inside that fills the void because they feel a little weird and lonely."

This may be why the characters in this movie look so "queer". The director and the team have specially given some vacancies to the characters. Therefore, even if the director did not specifically set the characters in this movie as LGBTQ, it is in some way. It's the same on a level, and Luca's Summer isn't just about sexual minorities, it's about more—all minorities (it's worth mentioning that Giulia's dad is born with a disability) ), or anyone who is not understood, is treated differently, feels out of place, and I think each of us can find some sympathy in this movie, and the end of the movie also shows that there are actually some sea monsters who will Hiding identities in human towns, perhaps our hidden and inferior qualities, and others around us.

It would be rude to speculate on other people's sexual orientation in reality, so I don't think we need to argue about the sexual orientation of the characters in "Luka's Summer". Think that's enough.