By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Greg Berlanti
Cast: Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Garner, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Keiynan Lonsdale, Miles Heizer, Logan Miller, Talitha Bateman, Tony Hale, Natasha Rothwell, Drew Starkey, Clark Moore, Joey Pollari and Mackenzie Lintz.
Rating: Excellent.
Greg Berlanti, director of “Life as We Know It” brings “Love, Simon” his second feature film and brings very good results.
The movie centers in Simon Spier (Nick Robinson), a high school kid who has good friends on Leah (Katherine Langford), Abby (Alexandra Shipp) and Nick (Jorge Lendeborg Jr).
Besides having good friends he has his loving parents Jack (Josh Duhamel), his mother Emily (Jennifer Garner) and his aspiring chef sister Nora (Talitha Bateman).
Simon has everything in life but he has a major secret: He is gay. Now Simon is facing a dilemma in weather or not come clean about his preferences to his love ones, even if it means to loose the love of his friends and family.
When I first watched the previews of “Love, Simon” I admit that I judged it harshly and I thought that it was going to be the typical cheezy movie that is released in the first semester of the year.
I am glad that I was wrong and I was very impressed with this movie. The film debut of writers Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker couldn´t start any better and crafted a very good and original screenplay.
The characters that they created are original, unique and for all moments you feel for them. I feel that both of them created a very good villain in the film in Martin Addison, who is portrayed by Logan Miller. Not only he is annoying, but is someone that you don´t want to have close to you at all.
Greg Berlanti directed a very good film and knew how to get the best out of his young cast in this film. I really admire this since it´s really difficult to direct young adults in this kind of film and he did an amazing job.
You can tell that he learned from his mistakes on his previous film “Life as We Know it” and here he did something special and unique.
The performance by Nick Robinson is so far the best I have seen in his younger career. This young actor has a bright future and hopefully we can see him in many roles in the future.
The message of acceptance is really powerful and true in this film and is one of the reasons why it made it so good.
The film from the opening image to the end is engaging, sweet and I was very happy with the result of it. I confess that the film made me drop a tear from my eye, specially in the finale of the film.
With that being said “Love, Simon” is so far one of the biggest surprises of 2018. I highly recommend for Greg Berlanti`s directing, performances and both Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker´s fantastic screenplay.