Although this film effects me in similar ways to BBM, they are very different. Both set at the same time in part.
BBM is thoroughly a story as Proulx puts it, of the effects of rural homophobia, where as CMBYN is a basic love story, dealing with same sex attraction but with fewer hurdles to cross. The latter seems to exist in a time and place almost conducive to it happening. What follows, and I sam still working this out in my mind, is the impact this has upon Elios life and relationships that follow.
I wonder too, given the timing of the story's publication, if BBM did not in some way pave the way for this story.