Love, Simon evaluation action
2021-12-21 08:01
The film has a youthful atmosphere. In addition to declaring the equal rights of minority communities, it is more important to express that everyone must be brave to face their own difficulties, not afraid of others' gossip, and need not avoid others' discriminatory vision. As long as you treat people with sincerity, you can transcend all kinds of restrictions
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The film is just like the innocent version of "Call Me by Your Name". It’s just like the end of love, the bitterness of youth, the courage to come out, the bumps of growth, the misunderstanding and reconciliation between friends, it’s "sweet". Come and be sincere. Regardless of the audience's sexual orientation, they can always find part of their own figure and resonance
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The film fully reflects the director Beranti’s ambition to normalize the same-sex narrative. Even in Europe and the United States, where the process of same-sex movement is relatively forefront, "coming out" is still not an easy task. The film accurately grasps this point. Same-sex movies have been consciously trying to de-spectacle and win the majority of audiences by delivering universal values, and this film is another step for this kind of theme to break through the genre and move toward commercial theaters. The happy ending of the small reunion style got rid of the routine drama of the "tragedy arc" of this kind of movie. Telling such stories is not to sell sympathy or spectacle, but because "everyone deserves a piece of love and happiness." It uses macaron-toned youth stories and pop music to quickly edit it to become a movie that allows people to sit in the movie theater and eat popcorn while laughing and watching with tears. It cannot but be said to be a victory
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Extended Reading
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Simon: [after a fantasy] Yeah, maybe not that gay.
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Blue: Are you disappointed that it's me?
Simon: [smiling] No.
[Simon leans in to kiss Blue]