Please think it’s good. Please think it’s good.
Yeah!
“How does a film deliberately crafted to be an it’s-a-sunny-day-every-day, nudity-and-sex-free, one-kiss-and-that’s-that, “coming of age” popcorn movie wind up being, if not quite as revolutionary as the Wakandan army, at least startling and subversive enough to provoke a response I’ve never heard in a theater before?
“The last ten minutes of Love, Simon is pretty near identical to Never Been Kissed (1999), the wonderfully cheesy, smile-through-three-tissuesful-of-tears romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore as Josie, a reporter impersonating a high school student.
“At the film’s finale, after Josie’s secret has been revealed, she stands in the middle of the high school ball field surrounded by bleachers filled with her fellow students, waiting to see if the teacher she’s fallen for will or won’t show up and kiss her.
“(Take a guess.)”
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