We will see Love, Simon and feel counted, finally.Īnd, in some ways, yeah, I did. The thinking-and part of the marketing strategy-is that Love, Simon will offer an opportunity to have a certain burden lifted, that it will do the honorable representational work of letting us see our past and present and future selves on the big screen in warm and celebratory ways. (And actually, maybe that it’s a spring comedy makes it a bigger deal.) Love, Simon arrives poised to accommodate a lot of baggage, with each gay person who sees it hanging a little of their own on the movie (or, I suppose, just choosing not to engage with it at all). Which is a rather big deal, even if the movie is just a spring comedy. Love, Simon is the first major studio film about a gay kid coming out. And yet, for me, it was also a fraught experience, both pained and giddy, cheering and dismaying. Though it tells an emotional story about identity and coming out, it’s an easygoing movie, glossy and kind and cozily corny. the Homo Sapiens Agenda-has a pleasant bearing. Bright and attractive in both cast and production design, Greg Berlanti’s film-adapted from the best-selling young-adult novel Simon vs. It’s going to be hard to talk about Love, Simon, the new gay teen romantic comedy from Fox (yep!), without it turning into a therapy session.
