I have unfortunately missed Furiosa in theaters and i’m desperate to go see it. I think my most recent views were Idea of You (at home) and Call Me By Your Name (in a theater). I did not mean to watch two movies about age-gap relationships in a row, but I guess it just worked out that way.

• Idea of You was actually much better than you might think from the trailers. The movie hit a lot of themes around the horrors of being world-famous, and really explored the dynamics of an age-gap relationship in a context where the younger person actually has more power than the older person in a lot of ways. The movie features a not-One Direction boy band, and the songs they wrote for the movie keep popping up in my head, weeks later.

• Call Me By Your Name is an indie darling that many know and love. It’s my partner’s favorite movie. I liked it, but it didn’t click for me in the way it does for others. There is a lot of beauty in the film, but I remained conflicted about the age-gap all the way to the end. On the one hand, both characters are relatively young, and both are inexperienced in how to be gay, so they are both on equal footing in that way. On the other hand, it’s a movie about how a 17 year old and a 24 year old develop feelings for each other and the older man lets it happen, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that this story would be so much more fucked up if it wasn’t fictional. The movie does everything it can (with tricks of cinema) to make you root for Elio and Oliver, and to make you understand that their connection is unique and special and beautiful. But this is a work of fiction, and I guess I just have a hard time finding beauty in a grown man lusting after a child that looks like a child.