This article was originally published by tens-frames of 10,000 movies.
In my opinion, there are two major things that matter in adolescence: finding someone you like, and falling in love with someone you like.
The reason why I think so is probably because I was busy studying during adolescence, and I simply ignored the little beauty of those times - if I could talk about a relationship without breaking up at that time, maybe I would be a child now...
Stop, stop! Although it is good to fall in love, please do not be greedy, and I hope that you can find out your sexual orientation before talking, so that it will be fairer in the future, hello, I am good, everyone is good.
Love you, Simon
love, simon
"Love You, Simon" is a gay film, and it is somewhat exaggerated to say that it is a gay film. Compared with those pure gay films that focus on the development of love between men and men at the beginning, it is like a clear stream in it, because it does not take the development of boys' love as the main line, and there is no so-called blushing and shy scene. Therefore, it is estimated that it will make everyone a little disappointed.
But in fact, even without the blessing of these factors, this film can actually look good unexpectedly!
Simon is a 17-year-old boy in high school, he has a superior family, parents love, brother-sister relationship is super good, more importantly, he is handsome, so from childhood to adulthood, he is the more popular boy among girls in the crowd. However, he said that he was a very ordinary boy and lived an ordinary life like everyone else.
And the secret buried deep in his heart that can't be told to others, so that he is no longer normal, has become the ultimate reason for slowly making himself show inside - Simon suspects that he does not like girls at all.
But it was difficult for him to speak out to others, and for many years he had to keep the secret himself and act cautiously. By chance, a post suddenly came out of the school's Tieba Bar, and the owner anonymously said that he did not know how to explain his sexual orientation confusion to the people around him. This gave Simon the courage to find out, in fact, he needed a person to talk to, and this boy named "blue" was in the same situation as himself.
The two exchanged emails, and more frequently. Simon wants to determine Blue's true identity among the crowd, but Blue has never cared about it, thinking that it is good to have someone to talk to and support each other, and there is no need to develop the relationship into real life.
But that couldn't stop Simon.
After exhausting all means and making a lot of speculations, Simon fell into the mystery again and again, and Blue never showed up.
The above is most of the content at the end of the film. I like this large part of the pre-ending part because it meaningfully cuts into the psychology of adolescent boys and girls: a desire for the opposite sex, self-awareness, especially the cognition and awakening of sexual orientation.
We may all have the experience of hearing from the dictations of people around us that so-and-so was hurt by suddenly discovering the true sexual orientation of a male (female) friend, and while being indignant for this friend, he silently sounded the alarm bell for himself in his heart.
In fact, many boys and girls with a small sexual orientation are moving forward in the process of groping and probing when they really understand this problem.
It is true that when they themselves do not understand whether they like the same sex or the opposite sex, they talk about love with others, trying to determine their own orientation through this method, which is undoubtedly scornful; but some people only begin to doubt their genes when they find that they do not have any physiological reaction to each other when they talk about love.
The second case above is not a minority, but Xiaobian believes that the curiosity and exploration of sex is opened from a very young age, and there is almost no situation where the doubt has never been doubted before and the day when the love is started.
In this comparison, Simon's quality is not bad. Whenever a girl shows affection to herself, he avoids it in fear, precisely because he does have a certain sense of fear of women's love that will make him reflexively avoid women's feelings.
"Love You, Simon" creates a great example of gay films, that is, even if you don't track how men determine their relationships and emotional orgasms step by step, they can do a good job of this genre. In particular, "Love You, Simon" moves the story background of this genre film to the high school campus, an age stage and environment where it is easy to doubt and discover your true sexual orientation.
There are no large-scale scenes in the film, and we can feel that the crew is concentrating on the confusion of adolescent children. This is the biggest selling point and the most worthy of recognition of the film, rather than blindly relying on the flesh to win attention.
But I have to say, "Love You, Simon" is still a bad ending. As the editor said before, Blue has always been reluctant to disclose his identity to Simon, but Simon has always been obsessed with it, and finally induced Blue to appear, the two kissed repeatedly under the romantic Ferris wheel light, and then spent a long time explaining the process of getting along between the two and the friends around them.
Probably to promote and convey the right values, that is, we should fully respect those who are sexually minority, and not take them as objects of ridicule.
But in fact, this value orientation seems to be outdated today, and this point can only become a meaningless repetition. But "Love You, Simon" is already gratifying to focus on the exploration and questioning of adolescent children's sexual orientation.
It should be said that helping children determine this early is a well-intentioned move. Everyone has the right and freedom to face their true self, and there is no reason for the bystander to deprive them of the right to choose.
The best we can do is understand and respect.