In 1950s Mexico City, a forty-something American immigrant leads a lonely life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student prompts the man to finally make a meaningful connection with someone. Daniel Craig was ultimately the one to convince Luca Guadagnino to cast Drew Starkey after watching audition tapes with Guadagnino and telling him "That's the guy" after watching Starkey's film. William Lee: Sit on Your Ass! Or What's Left of It After Four Years in the Navy. Featured on The Graham Norton Show: Daniel Craig/Nicola Coughlan/Jesse Eisenberg/Kieran Culkin/Flo (2024). The main reason is that the film was too abstract and felt like a stream of consciousness. The overall meaning is to explore the loneliness in the queer heart, the difficulty in making connections with others, the pain of not being able to love, and the complex emotions of depression. But the acting technique is very stream-of-consciousness, especially the last 20 minutes, which have almost no lines and are entirely used to express the male protagonist's inner world through various blurs, hallucinations, and abstract art forms. Although I understood what the director wanted to express, the way of expression may not be acceptable to the audience and I wanted to leave the scene at one point.