Okay this is a very small detail and I don’t know why it hit me so hard, but when Joe is telling Nicky to wake up, he says “Nicolò, destati! Destati!”
“Destati” is a word no one has used in common speech for centuries (in modern Italian we say “svegliati”). So the fact that he uses such an old-fashioned kind of language makes their relationship feel so ANCIENT, as if they’ve been together forever AND THEY ACTUALLY HAVE


















