DVD: Love, Simon
Reviewed by: Samantha Keogh
Review made possible by: Empire Entertainment
Simon Spier is a very average teenage body – he has a comfortable life, great parents, a sister he loves and friends he has known forever.
Simon is the very definition of the “normal” high school learner.
But Simon has a secret he thinks will rock his entire world.
So beings Love, Simon which tells the story of Simon’s coming of age as a gay teenager in a typical high school where different is always bad.
Simon begins an online correspondence, which turns into a romance, with Blue – another gay teenager at his school who also hasn’t come out yet.
They neither know the identity of the other, but they know they attend school together and Simon begins to see Blue as more than a willing ear.
Writing as Jacques, Simon and Blue give one another the courage to tell the world their secret.
Unfortunately, just as Simon is beginning to pluck up the courage to break the news to his parents, a fellow student stumbles across his emails with Blue and outs Simon on a website containing all the school’s scandal.
This is a sweet coming of age movie which, while essentially about the angst Simon feels about telling those he loves that he is gay, show just how cruel high school learners can be to anyone seen as different.
While most of the actors are unknown to me, the cast is bolstered by performances by Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner as Simon’s ever so slightly wacky parents.
Aimed at a teenage audience, Love, Simon is a fun movie for the younger crowd.
