They’re honestly trying to understand the other person not what Fraser gleans from the poems themselves, but something fundamental about who he’s become at this point in his short life. 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? 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.
