As an extension of UW’s annual Shepard Symposium taking place this week 7220 Entertainment will be screening “Call Me by Your Name,” a film focusing on social injustices.
The film will be screened in the Union family room on Friday, April 13 at 6:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. This event is free and open to all with popcorn being provided.
The 7220 films committee is responsible for organizing screenings of free full-length films on a weekly basis for the students of the university. Their movie selections can include major releases, documentaries, throwback films and public domain films.
The selection for this week, “Call Me by Your Name,” was released in 2017 and is based on the 2007 novel of the same title by André Aciman. The plot revolves around the romantic relations between Elio Perlman, a 17-year-old living in Italy, and his father’s 24-year-old American assistant, Oliver. A feature such as this is a step forward for the LGBTQIA+ community at the university, as the movie showcases the social injustices and taboos that exist for same-sex couples.
Students are showing initiative to come enjoy this showing.
“I think that this screening is a very nice idea put up by the committee,” psychology student Fernando Munoz said, “The movie addresses important issues that exist for gay couples in society. This film was based on the 80’s so it gives us a glimpse of what people’s mindset was like in that era.”
After its release, “Call Me by Your Name” triumphed in the movie theaters. Rotten Tomatoes, has given it a rating of 95% and critics have acclaimed that it “offers a melancholy, powerfully affecting portrait of first love, empathetically acted by Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer.”
Akriti Subedi, a computer science student, said, “I’ve been to a lot of movie screenings by 7220 and I enjoy most of them. And the movies have been pretty good. It seems like something that I would love to watch with all of my friends. I think the idea of ‘first love’ is something that we can all relate to and so this movie will be interesting to watch.”
The movie’s setting is in a small town in northern Italy. Destined to spend their summer together the two protagonists slowly develop a friendship that forms quickly into something deeper. They share a physical and emotional bond unexplainable to anyone but them.
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything – what a waste!” Mr. Perlman, a character in “Call Me by Your Name,” says.
