After two years, the spin-off drama "Love, Victor" of "Love, Simon" has been released. The place is still the same place, the school is still the same school, but a new batch of students have begun to explore their completely different lives.
This drama is essentially an orthodox American youth film. Compared with the same-sex emotional line, it is more about the male protagonist's exploration of his own sexuality. He vaguely knows that the same sex has an unusual attraction to him, but when the school girl threw it to him At the time of the olive branch, he did not want to easily give up this opportunity to integrate into the mainstream group.
A lot of people say male protagonist scum. I don't really like this term because it's too general and general. You can easily attach this adjective to all kinds of very different behaviors, like an assembly line worker to scum on them or The label of no slag, and then you are done and let it go. I think the male protagonist shows more weakness and procrastination, and his role as a mediator in the family also proves that he is different from his younger sister with a distinct personality, and is a peacemaker who tends to please. And this also destined him to pay more courage to resist the pressure from family religion and society.
The plot itself gave us enough details to figure out the emotions of the characters in the play. Victor sent a private message to Simon saying over and over that he liked Mia. I really want to like Mia with all my strength, and hope that Mia will be the one who guides him back to the "right way", back to the "normal group" where no one needs to be hurt, but what contradicts this is that his eyes are still Be drawn to Benji from time to time. Seeing Benji's heart beats faster, messing up part-time interviews and running away from the other party, and he doesn't even dare to take Mia on a date where Benji is performing, he actually knows how badly he looks shaken by Benji.
If the first half is that Victor is weak and wants to compromise and take a simpler life path, then from the moment he lied to Mia to spend the night with Benji, everything went in an irreversible direction, and he gave up the possibility of going down with Mia , the breakup is a foregone conclusion. But the decision to break up is not the actual breakup, whether to come out, when to break up in what form, watching Victor procrastinate is like watching a child rack his brains trying to make his parents happy and then take out the failing test papers Same, but like Simon said, you can't control how people react to it, all you can do is be honest with your loved ones, and the rest is up to them.
In the end, everything backfired. He wanted to give Mia a perfect dance, but he chose the worst ending. He wanted to maintain the family's crumbling relationship, but in reality, he could only come out of the closet when his parents were facing separation, and he didn't want to hurt anyone. Human he hurt everyone.
There are many flaws in the male protagonist's behavior, but it is because of this that it is real enough. Not everyone can face everything bravely and decisively. Choosing a difficult path is not a maverick, but more just a last resort. If you are looking at the same confusion, maybe a lot of what Simon said can also give you a little inspiration and direction.
By the way, I love the casting! I like the faces of all the protagonists, especially the male protagonist's mixed-race complexion from the Three Kingdoms is just perfect! The color of wheat skin and star-like eyes are so beautiful! If If you don't like the handsome guy who can only say that you don't eat this hexagram, saying that his appearance is low is basically watching the drama with his eyes closed :)
The supporting characters of this show are also very good. Felix's cheerful enthusiasm will blow away all your troubles like a gust of wind. When Victor doesn't want to have a relationship with Mia, he will forcefully explain the world's most boring board game for an hour, just for the sake of Tell Victor NOT READY is NOT READY, UR BODY UR CHOISE, when Lake rated himself low for other men and dissatisfied, he would say u deserve a man who doesn't reduce you to a number, accidentally overheard Lake and his mother After the dialogue, he also showed her his unknown family life. I saw ur life, I want u to see mine. It turns out that love words can be so simple and touching at the same time. Although Felix is an isolated poor girl with zero charm in the plot setting, the audience knows that the opposite is true. Isn't a romantic and gentle Nerd who only sees you the most perfect?
Benji... Since the first season has less roles, I have nothing to say, but he is handsome, gentle, handsome, patient, understanding of romance, can go shopping, chatting, work-study, and playing in the band at the same time, who doesn't like such a handsome guy? The only problem may be that gaydar is not very good. I thought he saw that the male lead was gay at first. After all, Victor can't hide the look in Benji's eyes.
Generally speaking, I like this drama a lot. Compared with the movie Love, Simon, I like it even more. Although it is less naive and fairy tale, it is more real and delicate. Recommended for the little cuties who do not reject American youth dramas themselves, if you are just for the same-sex CP line--probably you will be disappointed XD
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