Everyone craves a simple, beautiful love story.
For people in the LGBT community, they also crave simple, beautiful love stories, except that they are gay. And because they are gay, this leads to the fact that they need to face a lot of difficulties alone to get such love. The movie that Xiao Shuai shared with you today is an LGBT movie, "Love You, Simon". This movie has a high score of 8.3 points on Douban, which can be said to have created a very good gay movie.
<h1>First, the background of the story of "Love You, Simon"</h1>
<h1>1. Simon's puberty</h1>
A high school kid who has just entered adolescence, 17 years old, male, named Simon. He was a very ordinary ordinary boy, very normal on the surface, with good family relations, his parents and sister loved him very much, he was like every adolescent child, he had several good friends, and he went to school together every day. But he has a very deep, amazing secret that he hides, that he's a gay (gay man).
At first, this matter, the good friends around him did not know, even his mother who worked in psychology, did not find out that he was gay. Every day he would take some of his best friends to school, Nick, Emily, Abby, Simon, and they were happy every day, and there were no secrets between them, and this friendship was really enviable.
However, he was gay's secret, and the other three people could not think of it in any way. They were almost inseparable, but what they didn't know was that in the quiet, Simon's inner world had begun to change subtly with the arrival of adolescence. He watches a video of the cowboy band with his good female friend Emily, who focuses on music while he secretly pays attention to the cowboy's appearance. He often saw a muscular male weeder in the early morning, who would come to the roadside in front of his house every day to weed.
Just as everyone begins to explore sex in adolescence, ignorant and expectant. Gradually, he discovered his own sexuality, male.
<h1>2. Ignorant of the beginning of love</h1>
The arrival of all this did not seem to affect him much, and he was proud to be a gay. I still go to school with my friends every day, and I have always had a good relationship with my parents. Until one day, a person with the screen name blue posted a post stating that he was gay on their high school forum, that he began to have new ideas. He started contacting Blue by email, and he looked forward to every chat with Blue. Because he knows that there are few people in gay's circle, not to mention that he is really lucky to meet one in high school, and he is eager to seize this opportunity to talk about a vigorous and simple love.
Just as ordinary boys and girls will have a crush on other girls and boys during adolescence, Simon gradually has a love for this blue who has never met but talks very closely. So he fell in love. Sneaking out to the bathroom in class just to see if Blue replied to his emails online; after class, when rehearsing dances, he secretly went to the library to write an email to Blue; back home, a man with a movie spat out to Blue as a gay and bitter voice. Soon, Blue and Simon gradually developed a mutual liking.
<h1>3. Realistic guesses about the deep closet boy blue</h1>
Blue, as a deep closet boy, usually mixed in Simon's high school, no one knows who he is, so Simon can only use the memory of chatting with Blue to recall and guess. He walked down the hallways of the school, guessing the handsome guy in the class next door, guessing the employees at the burger shop, and even guessing his classmates. But he was never sure who was the boy hiding behind the net.
He and Blue talk about how they like chocolate chip cookies, so the next day he deliberately takes chocolate chip cookies to school to imply that Blue is himself. But Blue didn't expose himself, he was still too scared to come out. He was afraid of the strange eyes of other classmates, afraid that Simon would not like him, afraid that he would face a lot of verbal attacks.
<h1>The love story of Simon and Blue</h1>
It is true that a gay faces a lot of stress from the beginning of adolescence.
Like Simon's experience in the movie, they didn't get proper sex education instruction during adolescence. Even if the teacher talks about it in physiology class, it doesn't seem to apply to them. Moreover, if a gay wants to come out, he will face the pressure of friends, family parents and other aspects. They have been silently hiding in the cabinet since adolescence, surrounded by darkness, and the feeling is like the oppressive feeling of being locked up in a small black room when they were children.
When I was a child, the small black house was closed for less than five minutes before it collapsed, let alone like them, some people may have to be locked up for more than ten years or even decades at a time, and the pain is unimaginable.
<h1>4. Simon Acts for Love</h1>
Simon forgets to turn off the computer while using the computer in the library, only to be discovered by his companion Fat Boy, who threatens him to fall in love with his good friend Abby. In desperation, in a few months, the little fat man successfully threatened Simon and Abby to fall in love for a while, but unfortunately, the little fat man did not succeed in courting in the end. The little fat man eventually posted Simon and Blue's chat history to the school forum.
Suddenly, everything changed.
His father became silent to him, his mother thought he was very pitiful and did not know how to explain it for a while, and his sister was directly frightened and crying. That night, his mobile phone and social media accounts were full of messages, as if Simon's cheating as a gay was very special. When he came to school the next day, all his classmates pointed at him in the hallway of the school. In the end, even the principal, who greeted every student passionately every day, changed his face and wanted to draw a clear line with him.
However, when these things happened, Simon did not cry, Simon's heart was strong, it was recognized and accepted by himself.
Although things did not go well, he was quickly recognized by the school's teachers, who respected his choice. It can be seen how important an open society is! Later, he also gained the respect of his classmates.
Later, Simon voluntarily announced his coming out at the school's forum. He admits and accepts the fact that he is gay from the heart, and offers to make an appointment with Blue, a netizen who has never had the opportunity to meet, to meet after the end of the stage play after ten o'clock on Friday night, and the meeting address is a ferris wheel place. Soon, the news was circulated by students all over the school, who admired Simon's courage and respected his choice from the bottom of their hearts.
Finally, accompanied by a few good friends, he bravely sat on the Ferris wheel and waited for the one he appeared. After just a few turns, Simon didn't wait for the man. At this time, there were many people gathered under the square, all of whom were cheering for the slightly disappointed Simon. Luckily, Simon ended up waiting for the blue, who turned out to be his classmate Bram. Usually, the two people do not have much intersection, but this time, Simon is very moved. In the end, the two excitedly kissed on the Ferris wheel and accepted the blessings of their classmates.
<h1>Third, the current situation of the LGBT community</h1>
The story of Simon and Blue falling in love in this movie tells how Simon, as a gay, faces the doubts of his family, the incomprehension of his friends, and so on. Simon's mother said, "Simon, you are still Simon. I just regret that I didn't find out and guide you in time. I hope you can get back to your true self. But the most heart-wrenching thing for me is that you are a gay and have to face a lot of pressure alone, and I as a mother can't do anything about it. ”
Simon's mother expressed a lot of gay voices, and it is really very lucky to have such a cheerful and free parent who can understand the heart of their children. And now our society is still full of discrimination and refusal to accept LGBT people. But I think that with the improvement of the overall quality of society, in the next ten years, we will be able to see an inclusive society and an inclusive world.
I especially appreciate the comments of a netizen who said: "Gay is an ordinary person like us, but the sexual orientation is different." Except for some people who want to change their sex, gay's world is completely ordinary people, and you can't find any difference at all. ”
I think the world-famous marathon sport Rainbow Run represents this concept. Why is there a wide variety of people participating in the Rainbow Run? They come from different professions, different social classes, they are very ordinary, and most of them are not LGBT people. This is also a manifestation of the LGBT community's urgent need to pay attention. Rainbow Running is about age and age, and is a sport that LGBT people are particularly enthusiastic about today. Rainbow Run in a sense for the whole world to remove all kinds of cabinets, this world without rules is the most inclusive, the most free world.
The reason why many young people participate in the rainbow run should be so that people can't tell the difference between LGBT and ordinary people, and it turns out that there is really no difference. So if you're a member of the LGBT community, you don't have to panic and hide, the world is inclusive and will be more inclusive in the future. You just need to be brave enough to pursue love and live out yourself. As Simon's mother says in the movie:
You, still, are yourself. Hope you can get back to your true self!
Be brave enough to love, boy!