jiemba:

One of the things I really appreciated about Love, Simon was that it showed that even if your coming out goes fairly well, it’s still difficult as fuck. Yes, he wasn’t kicked out, and his friends mostly accepted it, but he was still faced with the dilemma that he was going to abruptly readjust every person’s idea of who he was, overnight. The risk in that is overwhelming. And even when it goes well, there’s still a tense period of weeks of months or years where the closest people in your life suddenly aren’t sure how to relate to you, and don’t know how to talk to you anymore, and will never see you the same way again. It’s jarring. It takes time to mend. And on top of all that, you’re doing the same thing to yourself, trying to get comfortable with an idea of who you are that you weren’t aware of or prepared for. I dunno, it might just be me, but I liked that the movie focused on the emotional aspect of him coming to terms with himself and not just the consequences of what might happen if he came out.