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MOVIE 1 : THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Fantasy

The Addams Family steps out of Charles Addams’ cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip the shark’s son into the family as their long-lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?

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—John Vogel

• A TIGHT FAMILY

Each family member represents a nail. The thread connects them together. As long as one member is missing, it is not a complete Addams Family. They are looking peculiar and creepy. They are a gloomy and odd family, but they have a kind innocence that is more precious than many ordinary people.

MOVIE 2 : CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

Drama/Romance Academy Award for Best Writing

(Adapted Screenplay)

Call me by your name, the film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman.

It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who’s working as an intern for Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

“It’s progressive in its appropriately admiring depiction of a loving and erotic relationship between two young men. They’re the most tacit of friends and the most silent of lovers.” —Richard Brody

• 1 : BLURRY LOVE

In 1983, homosexual love was not accepted by most people. We see the two characters in the movie, just as we see the letters separated by paper. The random movement of letters behind the paper conveys a special romance between clarity and fuzziness, giving us a feeling that we can’t touch, but we care about and are curious. Still, we feel worry and uncertainty.

• 2 : FLOWING LOVE

The faint letters represent the love of the characters in the movie. The font is not written, but dyed with ink. Like the ink they attract and bond with each other, and the love (the letters) is clear at the end.

• 3 : INTERTWINED LOVE

The random movement of ink and water looks intertwined and entangled. Also, the random floating of letters on the water brings a lively feeling on the whole, which is very attractive, just like their love in the movie.

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