Review of Love, Simon (2018) by Tyrell B — 23 Apr 2018

When me and my other LGBTQ+ friend entered the screening for this movie, we had very low expectations. But we were very wrong to do so.

The film was an amazingly heartfelt, accurate and extremely emotional representation of our community, hitting all of the emotions in all of the right ways. I remember originally feeling very cynical of this film as I was apprehensive at the fact that a Hollywood-like film would really misrepresent our community. However, that was not the case.

The film managed to accurately capture how young LGBTQ+ teens would feel pre-coming out, which was great as many people in the community could relate very well to the lead character - Simon. I for one could definitely relate to Simon's position, which made me feel a deeper connection to the film more than I had with any other film.

I personally loved the level of different representations of people throughout. Not only was there a lead LGBTQ+ character, but there was also representations of black Americans of different sizes which were great.

I believe that in the years to come this film will become a cult-classic and it will indeed become a triumphant, important and a much-needed film for all young LGTBQ+ kids to see and finally feel represented in such a normal and mainstream way.

Love, Simon deserves all of its success and the best thing about this film is absolutely ANYONE can enjoy this film and relate to it in some way.