This could have been a great film! What I really disliked about it is that the viewer is treated as a short sighted with a narrow mind, for instance, in the end when one of the characters says "I am black and Jewish". Yes, we had understood that by the time it is said.
I liked the way the main character has a specific taste in music and is a person with a certain amount of culture and education. That should have been focused and emphasised!
I thought it was silly the conversation with the mother (unsuitable for the role, seems like an older sister - poor acting, I guess). The same happened with the father. Time have changed, but feelings have not.
The feeling I get is that everything was sort of predictable.
Are teachers in America like that? Do they get in hallways taking students phones? Do they take about their "tubes"?
Why doesn't the film ends with the graduation or he writing an email? Simple but effective.
Films should move us, make us think, it is through culture that we grow and we mature ideas. I got none of that in this.
Review of Love, Simon
