The Reel Rejects - LOVE, SIMON (2018) IS SO TOUCHING! MOVIE REVIEW

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Starting point is 00:01:50 I'm just going to go. What did you think of the film? I really liked it. I really liked it. It had so much heart. it was funny it was even though I did

Starting point is 00:02:04 predict some things that isn't that's not an indicator of the quality of how well the story unfolded I thought it was just so charming I really they really cast

Starting point is 00:02:16 and wrote Simon as such an endearing character and you understood everything he was going through and the way he was feeling and they really put you in his shoes and it's a story you can connect to whether you are gay

Starting point is 00:02:26 whether you are gay or straight or or anything in the spectrum you know i feel like it's just a very human story about acceptance because like you know we all have things that we are going through or struggling through whether it be coming out whether it be dealing with eating disorders whether it be you know whatever secret or or challenge you undergo but the fact that you see somebody overcome that over the course of this story and learning to not well i think he he accepted the fact that he was gay but worrying about the perception of how he was going to be perceived by the people in his life because he was afraid of change i thought all of that was very um very poignant you know and i can connect to being someone

Starting point is 00:03:15 who you know has a contentious relationship with change so it was yeah it was great i yeah it's always a good sign when a movie can make me laugh, make me cry, make me frustrated. Like, it invoked all of the emotions over the course of whatever this runtime was. For sure. And yeah, I've never seen this movie, obviously, but I really, really enjoyed it. And I'm happy that I had the experience and I'd recommend it to other people. Yeah, for sure. Never seen it.

Starting point is 00:03:42 I've never even heard of it before today. But I'm glad we got to watch it. It was a beautiful coming of age story. 100%. And I just thought all the performances were fantastic. And I'd only seen this actor as well in Dera. classic world. So I had not really gotten a taste of his acting range. And I just thought, as you said, I think the best word to describe, he gave such an endearing performance. And he was an endearing

Starting point is 00:04:02 character as well. And I think like you said, too, he definitely, you know, was accepting of himself. But then he was just worried about, you know, how other people were going to, you know, were going to perceive him. And as well as he was afraid to scare off, you know, who, the guy he was emailing, which turned out to be Wallet West, as we find out later on in the film. So you can understand that. You know, we live in a very judgmental world, and we even got a little taste of that with, I forgot the other character that we met at the school that was all so gay where he said, like, yeah, whenever we go to family events, my mother tells my grandparents who are very old fashioned that I have a bunch of girlfriends. And it's like, that's a real, that's a real thing. And it's, you know, that's just the world we live in where some people just are not accepting of the fact. And, you know, to each their own, I, you know, I don't agree with.

Starting point is 00:04:52 it. But, you know, again, to each their own. But again, I just thought this was a very beautiful film. And like you said, I really felt that it just did a good job of doing a good job of balancing between the romance stuff and also with the comedy and just giving a lot of levity between the dramatic stuff because it was a very, you know, difficult situation that Simon was going through. You know, he was just, again, very also too, just worried about like how, I mean, because he heard comments, you know, from his. parent uh his dad specifically you know i mean uh making the comment about it i think he said fruity and stuff like that uh so you know perception is reality and

Starting point is 00:05:32 hold on let me just make sure yeah just hit the pause right there please i see it i see it it's it's mouse is like moving over there yeah yeah and i mean That is backwards. Okay. No, continue? Yeah, no. And I mean, I understand again, totally why. And also, too, and in fact, by not, you know, being open about his sexuality, like,

Starting point is 00:06:05 he almost lost his friends in the process because. Yeah, he was so scared. Well, not only because so scared, but because that jerk Martin, who had a little redemption at the end with the Ferris. Well, I know I still didn't like him, but a tiny bit of redemption. A little bit of redemption. A tiny, tiny bit of redemption. And I did like that one.

Starting point is 00:06:22 it was cringe. I did like that one moment in the Waffle place where he was, where he was just saying, like, you deserve a damn hero. Cringe, but I did like it. But just again, I did appreciate the fact that he was afraid to come out there. But again, the truth will usually come out. And, you know, again, that sets up for, that set up for, you know, like what happened with his friends. And, you know, he almost lost them in the process. So, but I also love the fact, too, that that whole thing that at the end where he inspired people to not be afraid to show their feelings and who they are. I thought that was beautiful.

Starting point is 00:07:02 It's so beautiful. And I thought Greg Berlanti, who I only know as a producer for the CW verse, I thought he did a hell of a job directing this film. The performance is so, so well done, so endearing. You killed it. Yeah. Yeah, no, it was, it was really endearing. I liked how it.

Starting point is 00:07:20 captured like it was it was a movie that could talk about in an honest way but also address those other perspectives on it you know and like I think the the moment for me was like seeing when he came out on Christmas watching his dad's reaction versus his mom's reaction and his dad not knowing how to process it and his mom seemingly accepting him from the jump and then I know you got emotional at both parents part but I think the the part that really got me in tears was like you've been holding your breath for years and I was like oh man like someone who's just like holding something so tight that they they can't breathe if they can't operate in in comfortability because they have to hold something so near and dear

Starting point is 00:08:01 or something so oh not even treacherous that's not the right word but like something that's so sensitive yeah and close to them and be able to live in freedom like that i think that's very um yeah it's it's it's very uh not admirable but the fact that his mom was able to see him is beautiful and that was beautiful yeah no those were probably too i mean i love the whole movie but those scenes were just so i mean just how accepting his parents uh were especially his mom and then his dad it's not that he wasn't accepting it was just like he just didn't know how to react in the moment just because he was expecting his son to be this raging testosterone man uh to get all the women kind of thing so it's just like and again he was

Starting point is 00:08:45 trying to deal with i think he said it best like in the moment he was trying to deal with the best with comedy and like joking around like deflecting yeah exactly he was deflecting for sure so uh but like to come back with him and just say hey you're still my boy i still love you like that was just so heartfelt so sweet i love that and um again there were some really powerful moments in in this uh film as well in terms of you know how the cobra kai crisp the guy who looks like chris brown and uh the other bully how they were treating simon and then the other kid uh in school too awful they were treating and how insensitive. And I love how that one teacher, I think it's the cabaret teacher, how she just hit the mic drop on them. But it's, it's just crazy. We live in a time.

Starting point is 00:09:29 I mean, I've never, to really be blunt with you guys, I actually dealt with being, I was bullied myself in middle school, not for the same reason. It was not about sexual. I was just, I was just bullied. So I can understand, you know, what Simon was going through. And again, not for the same reasons just being bullied, it sucks. It's not fun at all. Although, difference being as I was physically bullied, whereas Simon was being mentally bullied, but still either way, they both are terrible. But it's just, again, just so crazy to me. We live in a society where not all, but some people can get to a point where they feel that's necessary. A lot of times, too, that can be a ramification of just the craziness that's going on in their own minds and, you know, what they're

Starting point is 00:10:17 dealing with. And then, you know, they bring it into the world for, you know, because again, what they're, you know, what's going on in their lives. And I feel bad for them. I really do. Yeah. It sucks. And I wish them well, uh, and get the help that they need. Um, because we should all be accepting of, you know, if it, it doesn't affect your life. So I don't know why you have to, you know, get on other people for things, you know, even if you don't agree. It's, it's, Yeah, they've likely, like, they feel small at home, so they've got to make other people feel smaller, make themselves so big. Yeah, and again, the usual belief. Yeah, and if you don't agree, hey, that's your business.

Starting point is 00:10:52 It's all good. Like, keep it to yourself. No worries. Like, you don't have to get on someone else for something you don't agree with. That's, that's fine. All good, you know. We're not all going to agree with everything in this world. And, you know, that's what makes the world go around, but you don't need to bring someone else down to uplift yourself is kind of all I'm saying.

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Starting point is 00:13:05 He's good at his job. He made me cringe. He made me mad. So I'm like, kudos too. You put that role very well. Yeah, no. I don't want to see you. I don't see that character in real life. But hey, yeah, no, but a great job of what you're giving. No, but hey, seriously, though, beautiful film. And again, I really appreciated. I think his name is Zach Robinson, the main actor who played Simon. Great performance. Fantastic. Seriously. I mean, it's a very difficult job to be the lead in a film. And I thought he and drama. Yeah, he really carried the film. You could see how much weight, like, just what he was holding within him and just like to still like be such a wonderful. kind human being and you know with everything that he was withholding within himself like i just

Starting point is 00:13:45 really love this character so much and i'm so glad i got to uh watch this film is a really good one and again so impressed with greg perlantec i didn't even know he was a director yeah so uh i was really to stick to stric to stuff like this yeah i mean you had to run in the superhero world but like yeah i wish you did a good job into by the way but uh yeah i'm very impressed with him as a director do you have any final thoughts you'd like to say Did your, did your brain also do that thing, like, when you're watching it? I was just like, what superhero would he play? What comic book character would he play?

Starting point is 00:14:17 Are you talking about Simon? Yeah. Oh, I didn't say that, but I mean, I'm usually always saying stuff like that. Every time I was like a young leading actor, I'm like, what comic book character would you play? I don't know. I mean, with his performance in this film, he could do any type of, I mean, he really showed me a lot of acting range in this film. He was fantastic. He would be great Peter Parker.

Starting point is 00:14:36 I could see it. I was at. Okay. Yep. You got me there, no, when he had. When he had his glasses on at that dance and the woman and the girl said to him, I love you. And he's like, and then he went into the bathroom and told his mom that, uh, uh, there's drugs

Starting point is 00:14:50 or some drinks at the party, like come get me or something. Actually was thinking Peter Parker. No joke. I really was. I'm not just agreeing with you to agree with you. I really did say that in my head. I just reminded me of that. I really was thinking of that.

Starting point is 00:15:01 Good call. Anyways, what did you guys think of the film? Love Simon. Um, love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below. Are there other films like this? or other films just in general that you would like Aaron, myself, other members of the Real Rejects to react to. We'd love to hear your thoughts down below

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The Reel Rejects - LOVE, SIMON (2018) IS SO TOUCHING! MOVIE REVIEW

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