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Alex Strangelove (2018)

Alex Strangelove, a straight A student and class president in a happy relationship finds himself in a situation he never expected himself to - coming to terms with his own sexuality. Movies like these are usually when a person knows who they are but is not ready to out themselves yet. This movie, though, is about Alex not knowing who he is and not being ready to come to terms with it. So yeah, from afar it might look like the usual scandalous high school story, but it is far from typical.
The characters of both Alex and Claire are both very cute and charming, and they seem to form the perfect couple. That's until the fact that they haven't slept together, moreover that it is a touchy topic for Alex. And you think that's what the movie is all going to be about and start getting bored when he meets openly gay Elliot at a party and he's forced to start facing facts.
This, however, is not a coming out movie, as I would again say. This is a movie about trying to get comfortable in your own skin and those around you helping you to do that.
However, a big negative point of this movie are the weird characters apart from Alex, Claire and Elliot. Delgado, Alex's best friend, is the most weird character, and also the rest of his friends. They even smuggle in an illegal frog to lick it and get high, and that part was completely over the top.
What the movie basically tries to do is not make the viewer feel alone, and I think that's a pretty sweet message been put through in an okayish manner.