Seems like they could’ve really benefited from some more serious roughage. There was a stack of diner pancakes, maybe an apple, some Cornish game hens that are prepared (but we never see them eaten). Because human flesh is hard to secure, we see Lee and Maren eat other things throughout the movie, but they’re always presented as a second choice. Even more so when you remember that these are supposed to be kids on the run who need all the energy they can muster. But: “It’s absurd to think that there would be a reason for people to just consume human bodies as a regular practice, as a means of nutrition,” Schutt said.

Oh boy, do Lee and Maren really want to eat a lot of human flesh.

Your LDL cholesterol levels are gonna shoot through the roof, you’re probably gonna be lethargic.” (Or, perhaps, you might end up in such precarious health that a shot of apple cider would keep you from sleeping for a month?) Vitamin C, Vitamin D, all the sort of deficiencies that go along with a lack of those vitamins, they become apparent very quickly. It would be exactly the same.” Schutt, who wrote the book Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, went on: “You’d be getting a lot of protein and fat, no carbs-and very, very few vitamins. It can be muscle-you’d eat a steak or ribs-or it can be organ meat: a liver, kidneys, etc. They’re not going to eat fruit, they’re not going to eat vegetables, they’re just going to eat meat. “Compare it to somebody who has decided that all they’re going to do is eat cows for the rest of their life. Think of it this way,” explained zoologist and author Bill Schutt. And I can’t help but wonder if that’s even possible-what about their nutrition? That certainly couldn’t …feel good? “No. If Lee and Maren could have it their way, they’d want to eat flesh all of the time.

That said! Let’s circle back to the cannibalism part, because I have some, erm, questions. Bones and All tells a surprisingly beautiful tale about love and loss the film is about loneliness, trauma, and belonging, more than it is about cannibalism. And yet, like an addiction, they can’t resist their deeper hunger. Of course, there’s the occasional human snack along the way, but they try their best to be “good,” knowing that feeding on another human requires taking advantage of them. In Bones and All (based on Camille DeAngelis’ novel of the same name), Chalamet and Russell play Lee and Maren, two young adults whose penchant for eating human flesh has consigned them to the fringes of society, leading them to set off on a road trip through America’s backroads and beltways. This time, instead of being gorgeous gay boys, the lovers-Chalamet and Waves’ Taylor Russell-are high school dropouts and vagabonds who particularly enjoy the taste of human flesh. In Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, Bones and All, the Call Me by Your Name director reunites with Timothée Chalamet to tell yet another story of young love.

Book bones and all