There are many subtleties to the movie. I want to know why
Peter Scanavino's character was nude is some of the scenes?
I wish there were more subtitles instead of subtleties. :D
However, that guy was nude, because he went swimming with friends,
and he's pretty free spirited person, maybe even some sort of a
nudist, and he doesn't mind to show that.
Some people are like that, not embarrassed at all.
Oh, the humanity...
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Carter was hoping the boy was gay, and that something good might happen
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At one point Carter clearly says “gay”, in mixed context, but the overall up-shot is the ambiguity of natural discovery, and temptation – take it or leave it – but absolutely in direct opposition to the rigid mindless house of Christianity, tied directly to authority.
Projecting much?
-When you're jaded enough everything can seem like a cliche-
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Carter (Peter Scanavino) was nude because he was naturalistic and uninhibited, he represented the early Americana nude male in a natural landscape
Carter appears to have lived off the grid in woodland wilderness for a very long time, possibly a decade or more, people who live like that, especially people born into off-the-grid regions within the Catskills, are living a life of abject poverty with no electricity, sleeping nude and swimming nude are natural, as is outdoor bathing
( Plenty of young people love swimming nude, and plenty of people sleep in the nude, but the film goes beyond that )
Catskills (filming location) = Hudson River School of art = plethora of paintings depicting nude males in natural landscapes (looking at you, Thomas Eakins)
Carter laid down in a choreographed manner, modelling his chiselled physique, almost like he stepped out of an Eakins painting
Carter at the cliff with the rolling water with the other young men was straight out of "Kindred Spirits" by Asher Brown Durand, young kindred spirits on a cliff spiriting amidst an impenetrable green wilderness backdrop of boundless woodlands and forested mountains
Atticus' mother was raising Atticus to mature into that same early Americana naturalist, uninhibited, complete-individual-freedom-and-release frame of mind-and-spirit
Carter's nature carted Atticus further towards maturing into that frame of mind-and-spirit
One key to understanding this movie is to understand the parallel between 1) the inspired spirit of early Americans with their desire to build a whole new world from the ground up with their own two hands, and their absolute foundational belief in personal responsibility and individual freedom and willingness to die for their freedoms (Atticus' mother alludes to all this when she's reading aloud the details of the rent wars, and the *Catskills historical marker at the end of the film re-enforces all this) and 2) the current dispirited spirit of a generation of people who consider the system failed and ultimately opt to walk out of civil society (into the "cold lands" - an existence outside of society, disenfranchised, marginalised....but the same "cold lands" where people once upon a time built an entire nation from the ground up) and live a life of pure individual freedom and off-the-grid like Atticus's mother, like Carter, like all the country-crossing flea market/swap meet vendors
* These historical markers are a fascinating read that sum it up best (one is featured at the end of the film, the inspiration for the film title):
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/services/largemarkers/areamarkersone.html
This film is all about the scattering of this long-fractured spirit, and whether or not there's any hope of a wind strong enough to catch these scatterings and glue them together to rebuild this fractured America