Day 12 - 01/12/2019

  What does one do when having a cast of four above average actors? Make sure they can evenly have their spotlight and make own their appearance? Love, Simon tells us otherwise, we focus on one of them and makes sure his problems with life are the center of the universe while ignoring the other three. 

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  Simon (Nick Robinson) hides a big secret from everyone around him: he's gay. When Martin (Logan Miller), a boy from his school, accidentally finds out about it, he blackmails Simon into setting him up with one his friends, Abby (Alexandra Shipp). To protect his secret from others while still getting Martin to keep his end of the deal, Simon has to forge fake ideas between his group of friends and find his way around it. 

 

   Overall the movie is told from a nice perspective: of a teenager that doesn't know how to deal with his identity. The experience is visually pleasing and the group of friends looks like the companions that every person would like to have around oneself, not being overly artificial but still very much enjoyable. By attempting to tell a sad reality, Love, Simon is convincing in the sense that it exposes to anyone in a similar position that the people that are truly beside you will never let your connection end due to a sexual preference of yours. 

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   That's as far as it goes though, as the experience of Simon's journey can be very tiring during his search for "Blue", most notably due to the annoying piano soundtrack when attempting to paint a mystery over who's this potential  guy. Overly stereotypes are also a bit distracting from the solid message, such as the extremely extroverted and "gay" gay person, the gay guy having to talk about guys with girls and the very cheesy conclusion, which seems hard to believe something like that would ever happen. As cited in the introduction, it's unfortunate that Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. were severly underused figures, with personalities implied to them during the film that seemed quite interesting but were never fully explored. 

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   As an attempt to send its message Love, Simon talks well to its audience. But other than that the movie is forgettable despite the nice experience one could find in many other movies, deserving 6.5 out of 10 stones.