Love, Simon (2018)
9/10
NAIF AND CHARMING GAY LOVE STORY
11 March 2023
Simon is a teenager who hides from everyone that he is gay. His life goes by normally between school, his four inseparable friends and his family. One day Simon starts chatting with a mysterious gay guy who knows and likes him. Intrigued, he tries by all means to find out who that secret admirer is. But one day he leaves the chat open on a school computer and one of his classmates accesses the secret conversations and posts them on the school's open social networks, revealing Simon's true orientation, who is forced to confess. His feelings to his parents and ends up being teased by the other students. When everything seems to collapse in his life, things begin to change, he receives an apology from his classmates and his parents lovingly accept the new phase of their son. But she still needs to discover the identity of the boy she fell in love with in the chat. Afterwards, it all ends in a very romantic and happy way. Love Simon is a charming, human, romantic and very entertaining film. Unlike other gay love stories that focus more on queerness and excesses, this film goes straight to the purest love, to the confusing moments that teenagers go through when they decide to come out of the closet, to friendship and love. Family above all else. The entire cast works perfectly, highlighting the moving performance of its protagonist Nick Robinson.
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