Movie review: Love, Simon

Author: Alekszandra

Being a teenager is hard. Being a closeted gay teengager is even harder

Simon is a regular teenager who loves iced coffee music, his friends (Abby, Leah and Nick) and family… Exept he has a huge secret. He is gay. One day another closeted gay teenager makes a coming out post on the school’s tumblr page and the story from begins here. Simon writes an email to “Blue” (the now-out-guy) on the pseudonym “Jaques” . They slowly become friends, after a while more than friends. Both Simon and Blue are very private about their conversations and about their personalities but one day Martin (another student) finds out about them and blackmails Simon that he will leak the messages unless he organizes a date with Abby (whom he has a crush on). Simon doesn’t have a choice but to make it happen.

In the meantime Simon comes out to his friends and family, plays in the schoolplay and lives his life. Right until the moment that Martin outs Simon because he is angry when Abby confesses that she doesn’t feel the same way about Martin. After that “Blue” cuts out Simon, because he’s afraid that everybody will find out his real personality. But Simon makes a post that he will wait for “Blue” in the amusement park at the ferrieswheel. And “Blue” show up? We find out who is he? Do the two of them get a happy ending? You have to see the movie for that!

This movie is based on Becky Albertalli’s book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens

Agenda. This film is perfectly interprets the atmosphere of the book. We can laugh and cry with the characters, feel their anxiety, struggles. It is a perfect representation of a coming of age-coming out story. Maybe someone who is straight thinks that coming out is easy, but after the movie they enlightened that coming out is hard especially for your friends and family cause they know you and love you, but you feel that with this coming out they’re going to see you in another way, maybe they going to turn on you or going to be disappointed in you. And this movie is perfectly represents this tension and anxiety. Not even talking about a very cute, non-heteronormative love story, witch category is a bit lacking from the big cinemas and mainstream media.

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You want a hearty, lovely, charming story Want to see an amazing cast with Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford and the always lovely Jennifer Gardner