shut UP hugh!

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
In an industry saturated by bleak, hopeless queer stories, I went into Soft with high expectations that I was finally going to be watching a heartening story of queer kids that celebrates queerness from the perspective of childhood.
Then Soft opens with a scene of kids shoplifting and then smoking stolen cigarettes. And it’s just the beginning of a heavily problematic portrayal of queer families in a world where queer families face enough backlash outside the community, let alone from queer creatives. …