Box Office
Hit · 12.3xBudget$3.5M
Worldwide Gross$43.1M
Call Me by Your Name pushes a 7/10 woke agenda by making an explicit queer romance between a 17-year-old and 24-year-old the entire story, celebrating it without any pushback or traditional boundaries. Skip it if you want to avoid heavy-handed identity messaging disguised as first-love nostalgia.
The film's core premise centers on the romantic and sexual relationship between 17-year-old Elio Perlman and 24-year-old Oliver, making queer identity exploration and same-sex desire the foundational narrative driver rather than incidental.
Specific elements include extended scenes of their physical intimacy, such as the peach masturbation sequence and the line 'Call me by your name, I'll call you by mine,' alongside Elio's bisexual encounters with Marzia, all framed as positive discovery without external conflict from homophobia. Casting features Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer in roles matching the source novel's descriptions of white, affluent characters with no source-material alterations for diversity.
Director Luca Guadagnino stated the intent was universality of first love and 'the beauty of the newborn idea of desire,' not activist messaging, while the 1983 setting avoids modern systemic oppression lectures. Reception shows critical acclaim for LGBTQ+ visibility alongside backlash over the age gap and power dynamics, with some labeling it a 'white gay fantasy' and studio marketing attempts to downplay queerness, but no widespread 'woke' audience revolt or critic-audience score gaps tied to ideology.
We've run a full content analysis on Call Me by Your Name and scored it 7/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
Our analysis checks for themes like identity politics, race-swapping, gender ideology, environmental activism, anti-religious messaging, and other progressive agenda elements. The score breakdown above shows which specific categories were flagged and how heavily they factor into Call Me by Your Name's overall score.
Wokeometer focuses on ideological content rather than traditional ratings (violence, language, etc.). Call Me by Your Name is rated R. For a full picture, combine our woke analysis with the age ratingto decide if it's right for your family.
We evaluate media across multiple ideological categories on a 0–10 scale. Scores of 0–3 mean story-first, 4–6 have moderate elements, and 7–10 flag heavily agenda-driven content.
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