LOVE, SIMON

LOVE, SIMON (2018)

Featuring: Nick Robinson; Josh Duhamel; Jennifer Garner

Director: Greg Berlanti

By all accounts this is a ground breaking movie. It is the first time that a big Hollywood studio like Twentieth Century Fox tackled the until now taboo subject of teenage homosexuality. And boy, did they hit the nail on the head!

Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) is a 'normal' seventeen year old who has to deal with all the usual stuff of growing up and coming of age. Only thing is, he is gay and nobody knows it. Heck, nobody even suspects it. And has every attention of keeping it that way. Until one fateful day when the class clown accidentally discovers his secret and decides to 'out' him...

Based on the book "Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli, this is a powerful yet sensitive account of the anguish and inhumane agony that faces every gay person at some point or the other in their life. Some, like Simon, get through it rather unscathed - others are not so lucky. And even though this film was generally very well received by audiences and critics alike, don't expect to see much of it - or any at all - at this year's Oscars. The Hollywood establishment and other elite is still reeling after what happened with Call Me By Your Name at last year's Academy Awards.

Be that as it may, I award this gem of a film with my very rare 5 out of 5 stars!

Simon with his friends before they knew...