Call Me By Your Name And Moonlight Comparison

I know that part of this paper was intended to compare Moonlight to Brokeback Mountain, but they feel like separate films that are not comparable. The only similarity that I see are that they both examine the balance between hyper masculinity and queerness. After watching Moonlight, I could not help comparing it to a similar movie that depicted queer male relationships like Call Me by Your Name. When discussing Moonlight in comparison to Call Me by Your Name I think the ways they both conjure nostalgia is the largest connection between the two. Both films portray the exciting, butterflies in your stomach nervous feeling that is accompanied by your first sexual experience. Even though I identified more with Moonlight, I felt that Call Me by Your Name deeply conveys the youthfulness and innocence of young love. It depicts the
Both of us identified more with moonlight even though she is a non-black WOC and I am white. We are both queer with not supportive, abusive parents and come from low income households. Something we have bonded over is our trauma, especially trauma related to our queerness. It makes sense that we both relate more to Moonlight, which shows racial, parental, and societal trauma. Moonlight reflects the experience of trauma that many LGBTQ+ people relate to, unaccepting and abusive parents who may suffer with addiction along with the ways marginalized identities interact with one another. Call Me by Your Name portrays this romanticized experience of queerness that is seemingly traumaless for the main character. His parents are very wealthy, white, and supportive. I think I gravitated more to the nostalgia of Call Me by Your Name because it focuses on this innocent version of queerness that is idealized and unrealistic which a lot of queer people crave but never