someone who impacts your personal growth, who invites you to be the best that you can be, who leads you out of difficulty and into a place of safety, someone who is an important change agent in your life
Touch have always been Oliver and Elio’s way of communicating their feelings when words fail them. From the volleyball match up to the midnight scene. It was also greatly evidenced in Sirmione when Oliver touches the statue’s lips
and replicates it on Elio after.
This way of communicating desire was also the last thing we saw him do. As if he knew he missed the opportunity to feel those lips one last time.
Which is why it’s incredibly sad to witness the telephone conversation between the two because their ability to touch was removed. They had no choice but to speak. Which is why Elio, once again failed by his words, savored the moment and clung to the phone because it was the only way he could “touch” Oliver after a long time. But that last “touch” only resulted in his heartbreak.
