![]() ![]() Outside of his home life, Simon also has pretty tight-knit (and normal) friends, with childhood best friends Nick Eisner (Jorge Lendeborg Jr) and Leah Burke (Katherine Langford) as well as the new addition to their group, Abby Suso (Alexandra Shipp). Together, the nuclear innerworkings of the Spier family flows smoothly, with Spencer’s parents, his young sister Nora (Talitha Bateman), and their dog named Bieber. ![]() His parents are the stereotypical (almost cliché) love story with his father Jack (Josh Duhamel) being star high school quarterback falling in love with his mother, Emily (Jennifer Garner), who was class valedictorian. Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) is your typical normal teenager. Does this movie find its courage within its meaningful narrative or does something get lost within it’s the film’s journey of self-discovery? Now, 20 th Century Fox (Fox 2000 Pictures) and director Greg Berlanti present the latest film in presenting a person conflicted with his sexual identity with the film Love, Simon. This includes (but not limited too) this topic in moves and tv shows like Glee, Dallas Buyers Club, Birdcage, Brokeback Mountain, Carol, Notes on a Scandal, and most recently with the film Call Me by Your Name. Of late, recent mediums on both the small (syndicated television shows) and feature films have tackled the idea of being gay through their medium of storytelling of various characters and situations, allowing to express the idea underneath a cinematic lens. It’s a double edge sword to officially “come out”, fearing the worst of a person’s surroundings and the general acceptance to those close to the individual (family, friends, peers, colleagues), but, at the same time feel a sense of liberation and to finally express oneself for the first time without any false façade behind it. That being said, there are still individuals who look down upon the idea (due to personal differences, religious belief, etc.), which can lead to a person being ridicule and / or involving a hate crime for being gay. The LGBT – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender). While it may have been a sort of “taboo” idea, being gay (in today’s society) has entered a more main stream / pop culture realm, with the idea being more generally accepted (in the public’s eye) than in years before, compromising more of a large community behind the personal identity (i.e. some suggesting they were born thinking that way, while other due to a lifestyle choice that triggered it), the moniker status of being gay / lesbian has been around for quite some time, mostly (in more modern times) more developed awareness by an individual during their adolescent teenager years of self-discovery of “who am I?” identity. While there’s no clearly defining reasoning behind it (i.e. As humanity continues evolve from one generation to the next, the idea of a person (male or female) being gay and attracted to an another of the same sex has always been sensitive subject to broach.
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