Review of Love, Simon (2018) by Legendarylass — 14 Dec 2018

The film is a confused, privileged mess. When setting up it's premise it immediately and explicitly undermines itself in the opening narration: Simon is a young white man with rich parents who are loving, attentive and quite progressive, he goes to an affluent school with a diverse student body with several LGBT students, he's athletic and not at all an oddball or misfit.

And yet the central struggle is his being afraid to come out. This contradiction should give you a good sense of how the film conducts itself with as well as it's estimation of the audience's intelligence: Simon has every type of advantage and his coming out has all the threat of lightly tossing a pillow from 4 inches up onto some larger, more fluffy pillows.

Special shout out to the phrase "gay people are the only type of people that need to come out," I'm sure trans people really appreciated that one.