Rick Morton
speaker
332 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2019
last heard 18 Apr
Rick Morton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think, you know, I think I live in this kind of weird void that's filled only with kind of heartache and what might have been and memory and...
I think anyone who's had early love thinks like that, right?
And I think that's what this book does.
It speaks so much to that sense of longing.
And, you know, I'm 32, but I haven't had the most fulfilled early life because I was gay and I didn't really act on any of that stuff for so long.
And this idea in Call Me By Your Name of the time that had passed when people could have acted on their desires and they could have made something...
sooner of this great love was so, it's funny you mentioned the word feverish earlier on because I was thinking that it kind of gave to me this sort of feverish melancholy about the kind of the missed train almost and the characters themselves are so fully fleshed out and well drawn but also, and I kind of mentioned this recently to a bunch of friends, apart from all of the romance side of things and this kind of lust
It just made me kind of miss the lifestyle they had, the one that I never had growing up, which was the big ideas, the big debates, classical literature, music, art, beauty, things that give in you awe.
And I'm almost as much in love with that part of the book as I am with the actual characters.
God, that speech is so beautiful.
And, you know, so just to put it in context, in both the book and the film, the speech is given by Elio's father when he sees his son come back from this romantic tryst in Rome with, he had with Oliver before Oliver goes back home.
And he can see the look of distress on Elio because Elio, you know, your first love is so big and it takes up all the space in your life.
And he can see that Elio is shattered.
And he sits him down and he very gently almost asks him permission if he's allowed to give him this pep talk.
And he says, you know, he acknowledges not just the beautiful friendship that Elio had, but he said maybe even more than a friendship and that he envied him.
And the speech in the film is almost word for word what happens in the book.
And there's this beautiful line where he just talks about this idea that when you have hurt, it's always got an attendant joy.
It hurts because you had the joy.
And he says, don't snuff it out.
You know, don't extinguish it.
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