1/1/2024 0 Comments A deeper look movie![]() ![]() The kids have to pass in a community they expect would react with hostility if they were ever perceived as they wholly are. Alberto and Luca run away to live in Portorosso after Luca’s loving but overprotective parents (Maya Rudolph and Jim Gaffigan) attempt to send him to live with his deep-sea-dwelling Uncle Ugo (Sacha Baron Cohen). The symbolism lends itself to interpretations of queerness, or as an allegory of assimilation. But it is a story that’s explicitly about otherness and self-discovery. That those boys happen to be sea monsters who revert to their scaly form whenever they touch liquid doesn’t discount the undercurrents. ![]() It also involves a lot of frolicking around in shorts, riding scooters, and expressing jealousy when one of the pair starts spending more time with Giulia (Emma Berman), the spunky local girl Alberto and Luca join up with for the big race. Like Call Me by Your Name, Luca is the story of two boys taking a journey into the intoxicatingly forbidden during a summer in Northern Italy. Although no one would expect to get anything like the peach scene in a PG-rated Pixar movie, Luca does seem to deliberately invite comparison with director Luca Guadagnino’s romance, right down to a protagonist who shares his first name. When Luca - which was directed by Enrico Casarosa (of the short La Luna) and written by Jesse Andrews and Mike Jones - was announced, the internet was quick to call out parallels between this film and Call Me by Your Name. Alberto looks on, unimpressed, while Luca sputters and gasps and transforms into a human boy as the water dries off his body. When Luca (Jacob Tremblay), the movie’s young sea-monster protagonist, first gets yanked out onto the sand by his friend Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer), the moment thrums only with a sense of undefinable possibility. But how could anything dark happen in an animated world so mild? They keep out of sight of the “land monsters,” who have an alarming habit of hoisting harpoons and decorating their plaza with images of fishermen defeating oceanic menaces. Underwater, sea monsters live in a community that’s just as quaint, herding sheeplike fish and cultivating rows of kelp. The pastoral charm doesn’t stop at the shoreline. Cobblestoned streets wind their way up hills residents pepper their speech with ejaculations like “ Santa Mozzarella!” and each year the kids compete in a triathlon of swimming, cycling, and pasta eating. Portorosso, the fictional setting of the new Pixar movie, Luca, is a bright daydream of Italy. Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer) and Luca (Jacob Tremblay). ![]()
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