It's as close to a safe haven as the repressed but deeply feeling Chiron has ever dreamed of.Ĭhapter I: "Why haven't you made a f*cking film?"
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He takes the youngster under his wing and teaches him how to swim, among other nurturing acts that his crack-addicted and abusive mother (Naomie Harris) neglects to provide for him. On one of these such occasions, Little is rescued by a benevolent man who happens to be a drug dealer. They chase him into the outskirts of their poor South Central Miami neighborhood and beat him to a pulp. With his slightly feminine walk and gentle nature, he's Different with a capital "D," and the bullies at school never let him forget this. We meet Chiron ( Alex Hibbert) as a child, nicknamed "Little" for his unassuming stature and reticence.
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This movie came damn close to killing me." Barry Jenkins We can answer, however, " Why is Chiron?" in large part due to the deep reserves of empathy with which Jenkins renders his protagonist's journey. We can never definitively answer, "Who is Chiron?" because identity is a work in progress, after all. We witness the cause and effect of external forces on Chiron's identity. Watching Moonlight, the audience brings the past self to bear on the future self. Each chapter displays his identity in the present tense when viewed together, the three present tenses take on the cumulative shape of a life. In the form of a triptych, the film enters the life of Chiron, a black, gay man, in three distinct stages: childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. In doing so, it reveals the contortions, the interminable mess it makes as it evolves and shapes itself. Moonlight, one of the most important films this fall season, attempts to locate the origins of personal identity. Are we the conglomeration of our life experiences, the deterministic products of our genes, or some unquantifiable mixture of both? And what of the stories we tell ourselves? The stories we tell other people?
Identity is perhaps the most elusive of human concepts.
Barry Jenkins' 'Moonlight' illuminates the experience of growing up black and gay in the Miami projects.
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