In its eagerness to please (Simon’s opening line is: “I’m just like you”) and its relentless upbeat jauntiness, the film makes Beautiful Thing look like Fassbinder. With the corporate clout of 20th Century Fox behind it, Love, Simon is the first gay teen movie from a major studio. Even Beautiful Thing in 1996, which represented the previous benchmark for making a mainstream coming-out story that wouldn’t scare the horses, never had a ferris wheel erected in its honour. There were few takers –well, it was raining – but that’s not the point. For a sign of how times have changed, try this: at a London preview last week of Love, Simon, a glossy rom-com about a US high-school student (Nick Robinson) inching slowly out of the closet, audience members were invited to ride a giant Love, Simon ferris wheel in Leicester Square in homage to the film’s giddy, fun-fair climax. The coming-out movie, commonly found on the film festival or arthouse circuit rather than at a multiplex, has always been a reliable source of angst.
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