LGBT Representation in Film: Call Me By Your Name vs Love, Simon- A Pride Month Special
So for anyone who follows me on Facebook or talks to me in person you know that I've recently been very angered by the poor representation of LGBT characters in movies, namely one Lando Calrission in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Now as it's Pride Month, I wanted to stem my anger a little by talking about the good representations of LGBT people in cinema, the celebrations. The two movies I'm going to discuss, both have very different, but equally brilliant, ways that they represent gay people. The 2017 Oscar winner, 'Call Me By Your Name' and 2the 2018 coming of age teen romance, 'Love, Simon.' And hopefully by the end I'll have an answer of a question I've been constantly asking myself since I left the theatre of the latter, which is better? 'Call Me By Your Name' stars Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet and charts the lives of Oliver and Elio over the course of 6 weeks one summer in Northern Italy. It charts how their love grows and the relatio...