Guadagnino said he'd been 'chasing' a graphic scene between Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey ever since he saw something similar in childhood.
is full of uncanny, surreal, and at times, downright grotesque imagery. Perhaps the film’s most stirring scene comes in its final act, when William Lee and the object of his affection, Eugene Allerton , go on an ayahuasca trip together. When they first drink the concoction, presented by a mad botanist deep in the jungle, they both initially think it hasn’t worked. Then, out of nowhere, they begin to blow balloons made of blood from their mouths and vomit up their hearts.
“I thought, ‘Wow, auntie’s blowing a balloon.’ I’m transfixed by this image,” he continued. “The balloon becomes bigger and bigger and redder and redder until it pops and it collapses. She had a hemorrhagic in front of me. So that image has been haunting me forever.”itself, which he said he’s had in mind since he first encountered the William S. Burroughs novel at age 17. One day, he’s “terrified of being in a place where I’m doing something and I don’t want to do it.
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