I knew nothing about this movie nor the book. The conclusion is that it is not a perfect movie, not even close, but I enjoyed the movie. It is a slow movie. Lionel (Paul Mescal) takes most of the screen time but David (Josh O'Connor) stole every scenes. From his gaze to moving his mouth, Lionel was no wonder under David's spell and followed David wherever he went. It makes the heartbreaking when Lionel found out what had happened to David. Capturing the history of sound back in the 20s was hard, just as finding a forbidden love in that era. I wish the director used more dialogs to express their feelings to each other and run parallel with the project they did in the movie.

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