Moonlight is a typical example of intersectionality, that is, the protagonist combines multiple identities of disadvantaged groups: poor, underclass, African-American, gay. The film's excavation of marginalized characters is indeed a rare (and very politically correct) clear stream in Hollywood's gay films dominated by good-looking upper-middle class whites. The film is bland, and truly depicts the plight and struggles of multiple disadvantaged identities.
Chiron has been bullied and isolated by the group from beginning to end because of his marginal status. He became a drug dealer after adulthood, single and unmarried, and is still an outcast in the group. His childhood good friend Kevin has a similar identity background to him, but the difference is that Kevin chooses to hide his particularity, chooses to "integrate" with the group, and chooses to marry women and have children when he becomes an adult, and live a "normal life". "life. At the end of the film, the two friends had a brief argument, which was actually a conflict between two completely different choices of marginal groups.
The film explores much more than the label homosexuality. The plight of the African-American community is made clear in the film. Chiron's mother was drug-addicted, short-tempered and capricious, making Chiron withdrawn, reticent, bullied, and socially weak as a child. In middle school, Chiron went to a predominantly African-American school and continued to be bullied. His mother continued to take drugs and asked him for money. It's no wonder that Chiron can read a good book in such an environment. If education is one of the ways to jump up the class, then children who grow up in a lower-level environment like Chiron are less likely to change their destiny than those in the middle and upper classes who can enjoy better educational resources and environment. When the second part of the film was about Chiron's student life, I was still fantasizing about whether the director would arrange for Chiron to get good grades even in the face of adversity and get admitted to the ideal university. No result. Chiron's education was ruined by being sent to a juvenile detention center. Ironically, the children who had bullied Chiron to the brink of death were not dealt with in the slightest, and Chiron's supposedly just counterattack cost him his studies. Does this reflect the partiality and injustice of the American judicial system? In short, black children like Chiron are the epitome of tens of millions of black people: living in poor and chaotic neighborhoods since childhood, being raised by negligent parents, fighting and fighting drugs and alcohol are commonplace, and the school enrollment rate is low, and it is very likely that they will not be able to go to college. , even if they enter the university, they are likely to drop out of school because they cannot afford the high tuition fees or other reasons... In the end, these African-Americans continue to follow the path of their parents, (in the film, Chiron also began to sell drugs) and continue to be in the middle and lower classes of society. Rolling in the predicament, there is no way out.
Finally, what is the meaning of the two tones of red and blue in the film? Hope a professional can answer.
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