Before watching this movie, I always thought it was an ordinary youth love movie, similar to the warm healing story of "The Fault in the Stars", but as the movie gradually deepens, children born in the middle class have enlightened parents, popular A good friend, a teacher who loves students, the only problem is that he is worried that coming out will affect all these happy lives.
Yes, this is a mainstream gay movie. Different from gay films such as "Breakthrough", "Lan Yu" and "Please Call Me by Your Name", which are somewhat depressed, hopeless and lonely, this film is filled with the sweetness, confusion and sadness unique to adolescence, which makes people laugh at times. Sometimes weeping. This is also confirmed: love has nothing to do with gender, and the relationship itself is not wrong .
This movie also has a realistic mapping. Heterosexuality is tacitly accepted by most people, and same-sex love is still solidified as an "abnormal" thing by tradition. Simon has always been tacitly regarded by his sturdy father as a "straight man" who likes women. , and another boy who came out of the closet in the school is still complained by the elders every year. So Simon has an interesting fantasy: Why don't straight people come out? One day, the atmosphere is just right, your family is sitting around, you and your family muster up the courage to say: I have something to tell you, I like boys (girls).
Although it is an interesting assumption, love outside the mainstream is always particularly difficult and faces some pressures, just like the reason why the protagonist dares not come out of the closet, because he is worried that it will destroy his ordinary life, and go to the calm lake. Throw in a small rock and you can't predict what kind of ripples this will make. But I hope that behind every brave person who comes out is someone who can say "it's okay, no matter who you like, you're still you, and I'll still love you".
So, JUST RELAX! YOU are still YOU! you deserve everything you want.
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