That will be used by people who are sexually attracted to boys to rationalize that behavior.

That was obviously the choice of the filmmakers to cast someone who looks seriously underdeveloped.

Hello and welcome to Best Case Worst Case. This is another special episode of Worst Case scenario.

I'm your host, Francie Hakes, and I'm joined here in the studio live face to face by Jim Clementi. How you doing, Francie?

I'm good, Jim. It's great to be together. Finally, I feel like we're starting the year, even though we've already recorded lots of episodes.

It's February, at least. But we're together back again. We were together, but we were on the East Coast.

That's right. We were on special assignment. So here we are back in the LA office of XG Productions and Best Case Worst Case.

For another worst case scenario, Jim, this is a really difficult issue, I think. So happy to be talking to you about this.

But I'm not happy that we have to talk about this, especially given everything that's been going on in the news today.

So let's just put it out there. This is about Hollywood and a movie that once again, I think, glorifies the exploitation of children.

Well, we're talking about the movie Call Me By Your Name. And it has gotten a number of nominations, including for Academy Awards.

It won the best adapted screenplay for the writer's guild of America Awards, which was very distressing for me.

I had just heard about it at the time, but since it won, I decided and I have to admit I dragged Francie along with me to go see this movie,

because I wanted to know whether or not the descriptions that I had heard of it were accurate and what really the merit of this movie was, why it was getting this buzz,

and why despite the fact that the hashtag Me Too movement and the hashtag times up movement was going on raging in Hollywood, why would they be celebrating a movie that literally depicted a sexual relationship between what they say was a 24-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy.

Of course, they were played by a 29-year-old man who looks 35 or 40 and Army Hammer, who's a tall handsome guy, but certainly doesn't look like a 24-year-old.

I mean, there's just no way that he looks like a 24-year-old. And on the other hand, Timothy Shalamey, who played the 17-year-old, looks like a 15-year-old, but he's played by a 19-year-old.

Yeah, I have to say, Jim, I'm not even sure you looked 15. I've got nephews that age, and he looks undersized, underway, he's very short, and just the differential in the physicality between that actor and Army Hammer is remarkable.

So why don't we talk a little bit about sort of the facts of the movie, what's the movie about? So we can get our listeners haven't seen it.

All right, but I want to also go back to what you're just saying in that I don't think he was that short. I just think that Army Hammer was so much taller, and like I said, he towered over everyone else in the movie.

I mean, to say that he was a 24-year-old when just his physicality doesn't even come close to that, so it's kind of ridiculous. But the movie is set in Italy.

In 1983, by the way. Yeah, it's set in 1983, but it isn't really obvious. You can't really tell that by the movie. It could be today.

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