We Are Who We Are is a meditation on youth, less as a time in one's life than as a mindset one inhabits-the capacity to be brave, careless, and skeptical in ways that often go wrong...
Nothing about these characters seems fixed and resolved, which is why We Are Who We Are feels like such a startlingly truthful depiction of adolescence, in all its confusing, and often thrilling, fluidity.
The first episode is very different to the second one, which is very different to the third and fourth. Everything you think you've settled on about the character's story it drags you in a different direction.
If Normal People reminded older viewers of their own first love, We Are Who We Are might remind them of their own sexual awakening. But then, was it anything as languid and magic-realist as this? Unlikely.
The more time you spend with angsty teens Fraser and Caitlin, the more their explorations of love and identity will make your heart ache. If you're a fan of Guadagnino's past work, it's worth going with the auteur on his latest trip to Italy.
It's gorgeous in many ways, infuriating in more, chiefly how sunnily slow it is. Yes, it's lovely. Yes, people should have the right to love who they will. Now get on with it.
It's an impossibly grand and intimate ending, one well-suited for the eight-episode story we just saw, though whether it's the absolute ending of "We Are Who We Are" remains up in the air.
