 no matter what announcing who you are to the world is pretty terrifying because what if the world doesn't like you. So Simon feels that everyone deserves a true love story. Well let's see if it worked out for him. My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey what's going on everyone thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Love Simon I really do appreciate it. Now this movie Love Simon if you don't already know this is about a character in high school by the name of Simon who is gay and is afraid of coming out of the closet. No one knows his family doesn't know his friends doesn't know the high school that he goes to doesn't know and it is really just tearing him up on the inside that he just wants to come out and let everybody know you know how he really is he's he's afraid you know of any repercussions or you know people lashing out you know he just doesn't know how people are going to react and he just you know he wants to express himself. Now this film is based on a novel by Becky all battalion by the name of Simon versus the Homo sapiens agenda and when I first saw the trailer to be honest with you I was a little turned off because I was feeling the trailer up until the very end where they threw that line or that scene in there where it goes doesn't seem fair that only gay people have to come out by a straight to default and you know just to be honest I was kind of saying to myself like wait a minute you can't say that that doesn't make any sense that just doesn't add up and but going into this movie I completely forgot about that I just remember it as I was preparing for this review it is a very great job of just telling the story and just like filmmaking like it's directed by Greg Berlanti and I'm a fan of him because he is the producer of a lot of the cw tv comic book superhero shows like the flash black lightning supergirl legends of tomorrow and just you know that's just the first thing I noticed about the film is just directing other film by Greg Berlanti the way it opened up you know it felt very home and cozy just kind of like you know hey welcome come on in take off your shoes sit down you want some water lemonade coffee tea I got you you know we got something cooking over here got something brewing over here you just relax we're just gonna take care of you you're gonna have a great time I mean that's just kind of like the feeling that I had you know when this film opened up okay you know this this may be pretty cool you know I'm feeling this there was a long opening credit scene and I'm really not a fan of those but for some reason they worked in this movie and came a little later on the film but you know it's something that I did appreciate something else that I really did appreciate was the score of the film and if you've seen my reviews in the past you know I do love a good score you know I do love a good soundtrack and with this movie with the score and the soundtrack this really this movie really made me feel like it came from like the 80s or the 90s this really felt like high school and just kind of took me back and then we tied it in with the great directing by Greg Berlanti I was like okay you know I'm saying I'm on board this film I'm feeling it and the composer for this film is by the name his name is Rob Simonson and that name didn't ring a bell initially but he's done films like Life of Pie Moneyball Foxcatcher and a number of others when I looked at his filmography so you know I really did love the score I was I was really feeling that besides Simon himself of course I'm gonna talk about him the main titular character all the other characters in this movie like the side characters like you know he does carpool every day so he picks up one of his best friends it's a guy and then these two other girls so it's just kind of them for and just the way they interact with each other I found that very fascinating some of their dialogue seemed a little more mature than what it really would be in real life you know for somebody that is 16 17 18 years old but that's nothing that I'm just gonna complain about too much I would just kind of like watching him in the car like okay did I talk like that they talked you know back then you know one of the characters well one of them is a black and white the other one I don't know what he is he may be he may be all black but I was just like you know I didn't talk like that maybe some other people did but you know it's not a big deal but I did like all the side characters especially like a character he was the vice principal of the school just this kind of quirky dude really necessarily didn't fit in the film like I was kind of watching him just kind of saying to myself okay are you a realistic vice principal I don't see a vice principal acting the way you are acting right now in this movie but it was still funny so I accepted it there's another character by the name of Martin that was just kind of really kooky as well you know but he you know he fit well in the film unlike the vice principal did but the vice principal is still funny some other side characters that were just a little off to me they were great in the movie and their relationship was great but they didn't relate to Simon the way that I thought it would and that is Josh DeMille and Jennifer Gardner those are his parents they came across as a great married couple and somebody that can uphold the family but when you put them in the same picture frame Josh DeMille Jennifer Gardner and Simon and his little sister it just I was like you know I'm just really not buying you guys as parents right now you know you just just kind of just seeming too cool I'm not really feeling the the husband the wife the son relationship here in this family that you guys are trying to present but the crazy thing is is that was early on in the film when the film ended towards the end you know all that went away those preconceived notes that I had I was okay you guys are being not that there was being bad parents earlier but you know I'm really feeling you now I really feel this family dynamic here so I don't know whatever happened late in the third act of the film but it really picked up there and I really was buying a relationship now Simon himself you know do I like Simon um well the thing about Simon's character is his character was hit or missed with me uh his character was a roller coaster at towards one point in the film I was you know the dude was cool you know I'm saying I seem like a real cool dude but then later on in the film at some point I despised his character I was very disgusted by some of the things that he was doing but then at little after that you know he redeemed himself kind of stood up for himself kind of grew some nuts some cojones so I was back on board with him again but then like later on in the film kind of towards the very end I was kind of clocking out again so his character for me just was kind of like all over the place and I don't I don't know if I want to get too specific because I don't want to ruin anything for you um but I'll just say that's that another so that was like my real first gripe of the film but something else that I really just didn't care for is the whole story of Simon coming out trying to uh reveal to the world that he's gay the reason why I was not feeling that story is because Simon in this movie is making such a big deal about him being gay now I'm not gay so I cannot relate to Simon's character and growing up I've heard a little story here and there that you know sometimes gay people are afraid to come out because they are afraid of the backlash and I can only speak from my experiences of me when I was in elementary junior high high school in college and that is I have never in my entire life come across the situation to where somebody came out while I was there was a junior high high school admitted that they were gay and they got beat up or made fun of or just thrown in trash cans or whatever I've just never encountered that I'm not saying that it's not true or that it doesn't exist and if you're watching this video if that happened to you um I do apologize and I want to be sensitive to your situation but in my experience anytime somebody has ever come out if they're gay it's just like no big deal nobody cares you know what I'm saying but at the same time that situation can't relate to everybody because everybody has different walks of life the reason why it becomes a problem in this film is because the film itself treats it like it's no big deal so I'm sitting there asking myself I'm watching this on my assignment you yourself are saying that you're the narrative that you're and he did give great narration in this movie that hey my name is Simon and I am a normal kid just like you I have friends and we talk about coffee and on Friday nights we go to the movies and we binge on carbs and you know my parents love me uh my mom is a liberal my dad is not the macho super tough you know father like oh we got you gotta get in there and be tough and football and whatever he's not like that he's very sensitive I have a great relationship with my sister you know I'm mildly like this school so I'm like dude you have like what's the problem what's wrong with coming out you know what I'm saying like it would be see I would have liked this film a lot better if they if the film would have provided some repercussions like man if I don't if I come out that I'm gay my dad is gonna kill me or my mom is gonna disown me or I'm gonna lose all my friends or I have this football scholarship that I'm gonna lose or everybody at my church is gonna disown me because the church they say no gays you know I'm saying if the film would have presented some type of obstacle that he had to overcome and you know he had he just stood his ground and then like I don't care I'm gonna come out I'm gay and if you don't like me and if you want to dismiss me because of that screw you I'm gonna live my life that would have been a much better film to me but when I'm watching this film as I said nobody in my personal life whenever they have come out gay people like okay you gay so what whether you male or female you know what I'm saying and in this movie it was presented that way too I mean even Simon himself said because there's there's different levels of gayness you know what I'm saying to my understanding and what I mean about it is okay you just have gay people to where you only know if they're gay is if you either walked in on them and while they're in the middle of the act or they told you or something like that you know I guess normally but then you have people that dress up you know in opposite clothes opposite sex clothing or you know you know a man pretending to be a woman vice versa or just you know real flame and get like hey you know I'm over exaggerating but you know what I mean by the flame you know the super duper flaming gay person there was a super duper flaming gay person in this movie in high school that dressed like a girl all of that and nobody gave a crap nobody made fun of them and Simon said there's like you know I'm afraid of coming out that I'm gay but this super duper gay person came out over here and you know and nobody cared so I don't know why I'm so afraid and I'm just like bruh if you don't know I don't know either you know what I'm saying so I just really I just really would have liked this film a lot more is if like you know that Simon was like the most popular guy in school you know what I'm saying you know all the women like were just throwing the panties at him just like oh Simon I want to smash a good Simon you so fine Simon meet me behind the bleachers at 10 o'clock after the game Simon I want to give you my cookies and you know he just had all this stuff going but there was just like nothing for him to lose you know what I'm saying like I just kept saying to myself bro if you come out nobody's gonna care nobody's gonna treat you different and then I don't want to I don't want to spoil it for you but I'll just say that there was these two a-holes in high school that was trying to tease somebody else that they were gay and not like they didn't get any laughs everybody looked at them like dude what you're doing is not funny you're stupid you need to chill out making fun of people it's not cool go sit around somewhere you know what I'm saying and so that just goes on just like another reason why I just don't understand like why we got this story but then again the filmmaking was great the score was great all the surrounding characters were great it was very funny I did relate with Simon just a little bit as far as just kind of being afraid to like say something because everybody has secrets and skeletons in their closet you know I'm not saying everybody's gay but everybody does have something that they maybe have only told God or one of the soul you know so I can relate there but um you know the whole Simon making it a big deal that he's gay and not wanting to come out I just wasn't feeling that and I'm not saying that the movie is bad but it just could have been a lot better you know because it was some decent performances in this movie and another thing there was a love story that Simon was going through in this movie and for the most part I wasn't this I wasn't feeling that either because it was just too somebody gonna call me homophobic for saying this it just did it was just too mushy and just didn't really seem realistic and people that are in high school saying that they're falling in love I cannot take that too seriously you don't even know who you are yet I mean I mean you know I'm going with that um and so Simon potentially falling in love with somebody that you haven't even met before it's just like come on man for real like that'll make no damn sense you know I'm saying and the film if it would have ended on a certain point I would have been like man that was a good movie y'all need to go see this but the ending kind of ruined it for me not ruined it like this I'm gonna give it a feeling greater anything like that it did knock it down a few notches but you know for the most part I did like it but I did not I did not really care for Simon being afraid of coming out you know but it was a good film and I do have a question for gay people out there if you're gay did you have a problem coming out have you ever come out now don't please don't give me a whole four-page letter letter of you know hold when I for I'd give me a sentence or two you know and that's it I'm just being honest so it was something else that I wanted to say um well I think I made my point but if I have to rate love Simon out of a one out of ten I would give it a seven out of ten yes a seven out of ten so you thought I was gonna give it much lower than that but guys I did sell that but in the end you know we're all movie fans and this is 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