I’ve been looking forward to seeing Love, Simon since I first saw the teaser trailer some time back and I was hoping that the Cineworld Secret Unlimited Screening 7 would be showing it and thankfully, it was.
Love, Simon tells the rather delightful story of Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) who has a secret that he doesn’t want anyone to know about until he makes a connection with “Blue” by email. The two start up a communication that will lead to some life-changing decisions for both of them.
But who is “Blue” and is it, someone, that he knows in school? Maybe it’s one of his classmates?
Simon is finding it hard to let anyone know his secret, but he confides in Blue via the emails that he is gay, in turn, the two build up a relationship over their emails and Simon starts to fall for Blue. But things take a turn for the worse when Simon’s emails are leaked on to social media, his secret is out and now he is worried that he will never find out who Blue is and get to meet him.
Love, Simon is a heartwarming and delightful movie, it kind of reminded me of those John Hughes films I used to watch such as The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, which is no bad thing, it’s actually lovely to see a movie in this genre from the many action and sci-fi movies that we seem to be inundated with these days.
Logan Miller, Alexandra Shipp, Nick Robinson, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., and Katherine Langford in Love, Simon (2018)
The main characters are a delight to watch, it’s emotional watching Simon (Nick Robinson) go through those moments of happiness, fear and friendship with his best friends Leah (Katherine Langford), Abby (Alexandra Shipp) and Nick (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), which all makes the story for the movie even more interesting to get engulfed into.
I loved the direction that the movie took, in that you never know who “Blue” is until right towards the end of the movie, you may have your ideas on who it is, as Simon gives us little daydream moments when he’s thinking who it could be. But by not telling us, we are kept in the dark just like Simon and I loved how that was done.
Love, Simon has some wonderful comical moments throughout as well, Mr Worth (Tony Hale), the headteacher of the school, had me in stitches with his moments of being down with the kids and in this day and age of technology I loved how he was taking the phones of the students and he spoke to them, brilliant.
It was lovely to see how Simon’s parents played by Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel were portrayed when he has to open up to them and tell them he’s gay, nicely done.
For me, I found that director Greg Berlanti, probably best known for being a producer on The Flash and Arrow, has done a superb job of bringing this story to the screen, it’s been done with a passion for filmmaking and for the subject matter of the movie. Now all I need to do is grab a copy of the book, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, that the film is based on.
I’m so glad that Love, Simon was the secret unlimited screening, it was a wonderful movie to watch and I’m pleased to say that only two people walked out from the rather busy screening. If you want a warm fuzzy feeling from a film, then Love, Simon is certainly the film that you need to check out, it also has a brilliant soundtrack to boot as well. So thank you Cineworld for the early preview of the movie.
Love, Simon is out in UK Cinemas on the 6th April.
Summary
Love, Simon is certainly a film that will give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside when leaving the theatre, A heartwarming and delightful Comedy Drama
Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.
