At a press conference in Venice for Luca Guadagino’s “Bones and All,” in which he and co-star Taylor Russell depict cannibal lovers on a road trip across America, Timothée Chalamet criticized the social media environment we currently live in on Friday morning.

Chalamet launched on an anti-social media tirade, drawing his inspiration from the fact that the movie takes place in the 1980s, a time period in which social media was nonexistent.

“To be young now, and to be young whenever—I can only speak for my generation—is to be intensely judged,” said Chalamet. “I can’t imagine what it is to grow up with the onslaught of social media, and it was a relief to play characters who are wrestling with an internal dilemma absent the ability to go on Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok and figure out where they fit in.”

“I’m not casting judgment,” he added. “You can find your tribe there.” But “I think it’s hard to be alive now. I think a societal collapse is in the air. That’s why hopefully this movie will matter.”

The film “Bones,” which is derived from Camille DeAngelis’ novel and was adapted by David Kajganich, with whom Guadagnino worked on “A Bigger Splash” and “Suspiria,” tells the tale of Lee (Chalamet), a severe drifter who is disenfranchised, and Maren (Taylor Russell), a young woman trying to survive on the margins of society.

Russell shared Chalamet’s worries about the dangers of social media for today’s youth.

“I have a little brother who’s 19, 20-ish, and thinking about him in this world, and the self-judgment and judgment of others that people seem so flooded with every day in such a drastic and severe way is so scary because the hope is that you can find your own compass within all of it and that seems like a difficult task now,” she said.

When asked during the press conference how it felt to switch between two episodes of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune,” Chalamet replied that he was delighted to be collaborating with the “Call Me By Your Name” filmmaker who helped establish his career.

The protagonist of the story, according to Chalamet, is stuck on a prophecy-related path.