{"id":32172,"date":"2018-03-13T14:41:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/13\/how-gay-comedy-love-simon-breaks-boundaries-by-playing-it-safe\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:41:25","slug":"how-gay-comedy-love-simon-breaks-boundaries-by-playing-it-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=32172","title":{"rendered":"How gay comedy Love, Simon breaks boundaries by playing it safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something surprisingly subversive about the glossy crowd-pleasing commercialism of a teen movie with a coming out narrativeAt three separate points in my screening of Love, Simon, a sizeable portion of the audience united in a collective \u201cawwwww\u201d \u2013 a satisfied, soft-hearted sigh, as if we had gathered for a big-screen showing of a YouTube cat video montage rather than a movie. I may have involuntarily joined in a couple of times: an unabashedly contrived story of a sweet, \u201cstraight-acting\u201d high-schooler (lovable dreamboat Nick Robinson) drawn out of the closet when he strikes up an anonymous email friendship with another secretly gay schoolmate, Love, Simon is entirely adorable. Related: Love, Simon review \u2013 coming-out comedy is a landmark teen classic Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/mar\/13\/how-gay-comedy-love-simon-breaks-boundaries-by-playing-it-safe\" target=\"_blank\">How gay comedy Love, Simon breaks boundaries by playing it safe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something surprisingly subversive about the glossy crowd-pleasing commercialism of a teen movie with a coming out narrativeAt three separate points in my screening of Love, Simon, a sizeable portion of the audience united in a collective \u201cawwwww\u201d \u2013 a satisfied, soft-hearted sigh, as if we had gathered for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}