The movie is borderline pornographic. Well, kind of. The most you will see is tits. Which is weird, because it is a movie about gays. Though the only actual nudity is a female breast. Teenage breast! Illegal teenage breast. Luca Guadagnino doesn't give a damn. But the non-nude sexual stuff is borderline pornographic anyway. Like the shot will be composed to conceal private parts. But they are there in the actor's face. Like there is a shot of Elliot simply grabbing the ball-sack of Oliver. No trickery. Real grab, done for real. Though Oliver is wearing shorts in that scene. So you don't see the ball-sack itself. Just feel the grab of it through the clothes. The actors of the teenagers in fact were a bit older than the characters they were playing. Which speaks a lot about the casting of the movie. Elliot played by Timothee Chalamet was like 19 I think while making the movie. But he plays a 16-17 year old. So it was legal for Chalamet to grab Oliver's ball-sack. Oliver was played by Armie Hammer.
In some regard it is a typical love triangle movie. But it is different, because it is Luca Guadagnino. He has different views on sex than other people. Call Me By Your Name for example was a novelty because it seems like not a single person in the movie was against the love between two men. He was perhaps playing with the expectation that somebody might appear to challenge them. But nobody ever does. Making you, as an audience member, ask yourself if you were actually waiting for that person because you wanted that person to represent you, in way, forcing you to contemplate about it and ultimately agree with Luca that there is nothing to even tolerate here. It's just normal!
One interesting face that I was not expecting to see was Jake Horowitz who plays a guy that gets eaten. The thing is, today I reviewed a movie where he is one of the lead actors called The Vast Of Night which was supposed to be this small self funded movie. But somehow the actor got to be in a Luca Guadagnino picture starring Timothée Chalamet.
Sheiny did that and read the mark on it. It also said "Call Me By Your Name" and also was directed by Luca Guadagnino.
While on the other hand European movies are more open about sexuality. Directors from Europe like Danish filmmakers Lars Von Trier and Nicolas Winding Refn, French Luc Besson, Maïmouna Doucouré and Gaspar Noé, Italian Luca Guadagnino and many others are notorious for near pornographic ( if not entirely pornographic ) depictions of sex or explorations of sexual taboos in films like Nymphomaniac, The Neon Demon, Léon: The Professional, Cuties, Love and Call Me By Your Name to name a few.
On the technical side it's a visual effects heavy movie from the 70s. So if you are expecting high end CGI work, don't. It was made before CGI was a thing. Just before this movie was released, Star Wars dropped. And if you compare the two. In some strange way, Close Encounters actually looks better. Even George Lucas agrees with that point of view.
But how about something other than Blender? Well related to Blender there is the existence of such formats like OpenEXR developed by Industrial Light and Magic, a company started by George Lucas and a company responsible for Jar Jar Binks. They did not try to make the format proprietary like some kind of Autodesk would. There is also the Open Shading Language which sounds like something related to OpenGL, but no... It's a something that helps somehow with rendering pretty images. And it was developed strangely by the godfather of bad companies, Sony. And then released as Free Software, because Film Industry is all about collaboration, I suppose. According to the Wikipedia page, it first appeared in the 2012 Men In Black film. And the interview from the beginning of this article is from the August of 2011. Maybe one thing has something to do with another. Steven Spielberg, mind you, was one of the producers on the Men In Black film.