In 1950s Mexico City, an American immigrant in his forties lives a solitary life in a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student pushes the man to finally establish a meaningful relationship with someone. In the end, it was Daniel Craig who convinced Luca Guadagnino to cast Drew Starkey after watching an audition tape with Guadagnino and telling him, “This” and the boy" after seeing Starkey… William Lee: Sit on your ass! Or what’s left of him after four years in the Navy. Appeared on The Graham Norton Show: Daniel Craig/Nicola Coughlan/Jesse Eisenberg/Kieran Culkin/Flo (2024). The main reason is that the film was too abstract and seemed like a stream of consciousness. The overall meaning is the exploration of the loneliness inherent in the foreign heart, the difficulty of connecting with others, the pain of lack of love and the complex emotions of depression. But the execution technique is very timid, especially the last 20 minutes, which have almost no lines and are entirely devoted to expressing the male protagonist’s inner world through various blurs, hallucinations and abstract art forms. Although I understood what the director wanted to express, the form of expression might not be acceptable to the audience, and at some point I wanted to leave the scene.
