![]() But he’s also got Blue’s privacy to worry about, so he submits through gritted teeth to what Martin wants, and winds up feeling treacherous and alone at the precise moment when he needs his friends the most. If Simon had the guts, he’d come out there and then to avoid screwing up multiple friendships. ![]() Meanwhile, his straight friends have a bunch of feelings towards one other, and in one case towards him, which get tangled up in his calculus, especially when a classmate called Martin (Logan Miller, terrific) snoops on a library computer and blackmails him to fulfil a romantic agenda of his own. He gets his hopes up that Blue might be one person, only to rule that person out and alight on the next candidate. One thing Love, Simon handles really nicely is the way it allows its hero’s longings to flit excitably from one guy to the next, in the manner of most inchoate crushes we have when we are young. These two pour out their hearts to each other, but only behind the safe curtain of email aliases, and while Simon’s curiosity about the identity of “Blue” drives the story this way and that, his correspondent is resolute about playing coy. He hasn’t yet plucked up the courage to come out to his family or friends, and his sole confidant is an anonymous pen pal, another boy at school, who admits to being gay as well. He doesn’t have life too rough in any way, except for his Big Secret, which first sunk in a few years ago during a series of nightly dreams about Daniel Radcliffe. ![]() Simon, played by Nick Robinson (not that one, the Jurassic World one), is your everyday suburban boy next door, with a little sister he adores and two absurdly attractive parents (Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel) whose genes give him a reasonable excuse for being the cutest person in school. The wrinkle that keeps things interesting isn’t the main character’s sexuality per se, but the right mess he makes of revealing it. ![]() Sweet and moving as it often manages to be, the film is comfortingly average, in its way – the point of it not to stand out, but fit in. Love, Simon aims to conform: to every contour of the high school romcom landscape, with the secrets, the gossip, the unrequited crushes and the indie-pop soundtrack. Cast: Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, Miles Heizer, Keiynan Lonsdale, Logan Miller, Alexandra Shipp, Jorge Lendeborg, Jr, Tony Hale, Natasha Rothwell, Talitha BatemanĬoming out is a darn sight easier than it ever used to be, which explains why a mainstream American teen comedy now exists about it, when this really wouldn’t have been thinkable a decade or two ago. ![]()
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