Fraser doesn’t mince words with Caitlin, and Caitlin doesn’t punish him for being frank. The conversation is timeless - who hasn’t questioned a snobby friend about their high-minded choices? - but the framework is present and pressing. The same can be said for every word, shot, and sequence that makes up the unique yet universal HBO series “We Are Who We Are,” including this scene. I’m looking for something that means something. “The same reason I hate your clothing,” Fraser snaps back, referencing his designer t-shirts and her sporty apparel. Fraser (Jack Dylan Grazer) is reading a book of poetry, and his new friend Caitlin (Jordan Kristine Seamón) asks him why - when you’re an American living abroad, laying under the warm Italian sun, floating mere inches from cool water, why spend your time reading poetry? But if I look at them more as apples and oranges, I would say they both are very well done and each earns its place as a highly recommended piece of work.In the third episode of “ We Are Who We Are,” Luca Guadagnino‘s living teen travelogue, two young high schoolers lay face up in a canoe. I will say I did prefer the original overall as it was first, so it took some of the novelty out of the second, and the original made it more of a sort of very twisted coming of age tale than the second movie did, and I really liked that dimension of it. Would I say it is better than the original? Well, given that they are both very different it would be unfair to pit them against each other directly. The acting is carried off quite flawlessly, and we do find ourselves at least rooting for the children to some degree.

It is these characters that are the goal, and the movie does not resort to needless gore to satisfy cruder appetites. The movie itself is beautifully developed to create both a very plausible realism and very well defined characters. The setting, characters, general plot, and ending all very significantly deviate from the original, and there is even a detailed back story added which creates, if not sympathy, at least comprehension for the acts this family does. My concerns were unfounded though as it turns out since, while the director did use the general idea of the original, he did not so much do a remake as a spin off.

Having seen and quite enjoyed the Spanish original I was a bit concerned about seeing it remade.

We are who we are trailer