58 - Love, Simon

Eavesdropping at the Movies · Apr 11, 2018 · 42m

A young adult romance with a twist, Love, Simon gives gay teens a high school movie with a decent budget and aimed at a wide audience. We both have mixed feelings on it, but find it a well-meaning and substantially positive film. We discuss some shortcuts it takes - the use of a queeny character to render Simon more acceptable, the setting in upper middle class suburbia making Simon's sexuality the only issue in his life, a certain generic formulaicity - and ideas the film depicts as simple that could and should be more complex, including conversations we'd like to have seen Simon have with…