Analysis Of The Film Moonlight

The film Moonlight was released October 21, 2016. Moonlight is all African American cast, and was awarded over 25 awards including the Academy Award for best picture. This film is a coming of age story that follows the dramatic ups and downs of the life of Chiron, a young Africa American man growing up in Miami. The plot begins from the time he is in elementary school to the time he reaches adulthood. The plot is structured in three stages of the life of Chiron and touches on the topics of the struggle of dysfunctional households via socialization, sexuality and sexual identity, physical and emotion abuse, and the process of accepting ones self.

Part Two “Chiron” fast forwards to Chiron, now a high school student, still continuing to be bullied by his peers, who now more than ever suspect him to be gay. Nothing much has changed, he is still very coiled up and scrawny framed. Chiron and Kevin have continued to stay friends through out the years, but in the middle of the scene, there friendship takes a different turn. One night on the beach Kevin and Chiron share and intimate moment, Chiron’s first and only homosexual encounter with a man. Not long after Kevin is pressured by the high schools bully Terrel, to attack Chiron. It makes no sense, as to why Kevin would do such a thing after an intense, intimate moment the two had just previously shared. This act is another reminder to Chiron that he cannot trust anyone, especially after the complete betrayal that Kevin has shown in front of countless other students. Chiron and Kevin shared an emotional connection that he has never experienced before. The scene ends as, Chiron walks in to class, as per usual does not say one word, and slams Terrel in the back of the head with a chair and is taken to Juvenile Detention. This is a defining moment as we see Chiron standing up for him self. However, it leaves the audience wanting more. Now as part two comes to a conclusion we see that Chiron had the opportunity to become his own and live up to his true identity. Yet, Not much has changed, but Because he was denied this as a young boy, as a teenager he still is

The movie Before Night Falls directed by Julian Schnabel offers viewers a glimpse of how the homosexual community in Cuba was being mistreated under Fidel Castro’s regime. The true story is told in the eyes of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. The film depicts Arenas life in Cuba and all of the awful experiences that he had to deal with as a homosexual. Eventually he was arrested for false accusations of being a molester, however, he was actually under arrest for being a homosexual. Between the 1930s and 1990s, the Communist Cuba was abusive to the LGBT community as shown in their actions of harassment towards homosexuals, imprisoning the homosexuals, or sending them to re-education camps.

Through the depiction of Chiron and his struggle in the film Moonlight Jenkins shows that the system one lives in and the internal self results in domination against oneself. Chiron the protagonist of the film is considered weak and fragile in comparison to his classmates and the people in his community and thus Chiron is targeted by his peers and even within his own household. In Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks it is argued that the black man plays a part in their own domination by constantly viewing themselves as less than the white men.

“At some point, you've got to decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you.” philosophically uttered by Mahershala Ali’s drug dealer character Juan to Alex Hibbert’s character Chiron as they looked onto the oceanview. Whenever I reflect on the film Moonlight, I profoundly reminisce about that particular scene and that particular line. This ocean view scene involving Juan and Chiron will always be embedded in my memory due to the effect it had in regard to my future life decisions. Moonlight is a coming of age film that covers three prominent chapters of the life of a gay black man named Chiron from the ages 6 (Little), 16 (Chiron) and 26 (Black).

Many films used many shots as possible to bring the viewer in with amusement and entertainment, but this film by Steven Soderbergh called The Limey is the contrary with unique editing techniques. In short, this movie depicts the main character Wilson (Terence Stamp) trying to uncover the cause of his daughter's death and her murder. He goes heaven to hell to find her murder and for him/her to get their rightful day of justice. Along the way, he does some unethical actions that some might seem abrupt (i.e. torture and death of some characters), in order to find her murder, whom he mistakenly identified him as Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda). From this movie, there was also the use of many editing techniques that were used including

Barry Jenkins’ award winning film Moonlight is based on the coming of age play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney. This story follows Chiron Black in three different phases of his life. This film highlights many of the things that plague black boys questioning their identity, but does so in a way that captures the innocence and vulnerability of the process. At first glance, one may think Moonlight is just another stereotypical coming of age story – a young black boy with a drug addicted mother and no father, living in a neighborhood riddled with drug addiction, who is confused about who he is. It does play into those stereotypes, but with good reason. Those tropes highlight the contrasts between the life he is ‘supposed’ to live, and who he really is (even if he doesn’t realize it).

Moonlight, a film directed by Barry Jenkins in 2016 is mainly about the life of a young black man growing up in Miami; he encounters his journey through his teenage years and into manhood. Chiron is a ten-year-old adolescent nicknamed "Little" who is taken in by a Cuban drug dealer “Juan” and his girlfriend. Chiron explores his sexuality as he falls in love with a close friend and reconnects with faces. Chiron then reconnects with faces from his past. The director Barry Jenkins captures several important moments in the elevation of human everyday experience. Chiron seeks out a father figure, Juan, in which he loses him to an early death. Juan directs Little to shape meaning of his own identity and self acceptance. Jenkins also portrays the real life aspects of violence, subjectification that demoralize his mental and physical appearance throughout Moonlight. Jenkins utilizes violence and drugs in Miami as a perception of realism based on how Chiron’s sexaulity is conditioned by the deriding of adolescent masculine becoming. Moonlight plays a significant role in the representation of the black community, hardship and gender identity performances. Chiron hides his sexuality while living in poverty, finding one’s true self and the emergence as an African American male.

Chiron from the movie “Moonlight”, his decisions of who he became, was not entirely by him. His decisions were made through a mix of him and his circumstances. Proving that his decisions were mainly influenced by his circumstances was the scene where he told Kevin that after the incident with Tyrell, he went to jail and from there he built himself from the ground up. This decision is influenced by him going to jail and he didn't want to let people to punk him around. If your bullied, your going to always be bullied.. Another piece of evidence is when Chiron is in Jail and someone helps him to start selling narcotics. He started selling dope which that decision is influenced by his environment/circumstances. Chiron could’ve got out of jail

For a movie to proceed to its final “point”, a filmmaker must have an image of what has to be and not be familiarized. Source three unveiled, ”Clements

The essay film, as contextualized in this course by Agnès Varda and Ross McElwee, has been defined by many traits, perhaps most notable in the physical presence of said directors in their films; at times on screen, at times in voiceovers, sometimes a combination of thereof. Over the span of several class meetings, this particular trait (the film maker’s presence a la Varda and McElwee) and its implications became the epicenter of most discussions, as well as the assumed baseline by which other directors would be critiqued. In this paper, the argument advanced is that by the standard(s) that emerged from the class’ discussions and evaluations of the aforementioned directors, Errol Morris—specifically in his films The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War—technically is not an essayistic film maker. However, this stance also states that Morris is a film-essayist by other means, in that Morris simply implements Laura Rascaroli’s thoughts on reflectivity and subjectivity in a form dissimilar to Varda and McElwee.

Moonlight is a coming-of-age film released in October 21st, 2016, in the United States. It was written and directed by Barry Jenkins, and based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. The movie won Best Motion Picture in the 74th Golden Globe Awards as well as Best Picture in the 2017 Academy Awards. It became the first film with an all Black cast, and the first LGBTQ film to win Best Picture. The film divides in three parts, “Little”, “Chiron”, and “Black”. It follows the infant, teenager, and adult life of Chiron, a gay Black boy in Liberty City, Miami, Florida.

Moonlight is really a unique coming-of-age story about an infinitely more ignored demographic of homosexual, and black people.Told in three parts, the movie follows Chiron first as a new child , whose early signals of homosexuality produce him the mark of school bullies. Later, we see Chiron being an uncomfortable teenager visiting phrases together with his hidden needs while attempting to avoid the drugs and crime that infest his neighbourhood.The last part examines Chiron being an adult. He is seen as strong and macho man, however the hard outer is a disguise for a soft heart wounded by a community that's never acknowledged his kind.Several people play a big role in his life: Chiron's drug abuser mom Paula,the neighbourhood drug supplier

In act one of Moonlight the protagonist, Chiron, is a child growing up in an impoverished community with many obstacles in his way. It seems as if all odds are stacked against him, however, after an encounter with a drug dealer named Juan (Mahershala Ali), his life finds a bit of meaning. One day Juan takes Chiron to the beach, a place that seemed foreign to young Chiron. Nevertheless, he embraced the water learning how to swim in the process. The use of both sound and mise-èn-scene here introduces the idea that the beach is Chiron’s safe space in his otherwise calamitous life. For instance, as soon as the scene commences, the sound design increases and the music score changes to an uplifting classical song. The way in which Chiron is addressed by Juan is also kind and empowering. The blocking is also essential in this scene. At first, when Chiron is swimming, Juan is holding on to him as he struggles to keep his head above the water. Eventually, Chiron figures out how swim on his own, a powerful message captured in a short period of time. The music puts the viewer in a state of relaxation, knowing Chiron has nothing to worry about in this moment. This is also only the second time in the film where music is used, solidifying

How the use of body and voice can contribute to the aesthetics of film, or more specifically, how actors become agents in a narrative