"Dark skin is blue in the moonlight" I felt so superficial before, saying that the best picture of this movie is nothing but political correctness. But after watching it patiently, I found that he deserves the best picture. Director Barry Jenkins took four years of photography classes before making the film, and is extremely good at using film language as a symbol. There is a very overall style, the sea inside, the blue metaphor, the ambiguous colored lights, the actors do not put on powder makeup, and reflect the natural light spots of skin oil. Using touch and sensory memory to create a near-real experience, a bitter and lonely youth in a humid, ambiguous city. Freud's memory mechanism mentioned that human memory is formed by sensory experience. When you recall something, most of you recall feelings, which are composed of surrounding environmental sounds, smells and touches. When narrating, it is often overlooked that only important memory nodes are remembered. The "mechanism of memory" is the narrative logic of the film, and the chapters of the novel lead to three growth stories, rather than a smooth linear narrative, making it closer to dreams and memories. It feels a lot like Farewell My Concubine in terms of symbolism and narrative, plus it's all lgbt movies, this may be more delicate and less time-span, focusing more on personal stories rather than history. In short, it's really good. The dialogue at the end has an Ang Lee-style emotional expression, which relieves the emotions accumulated by the audience in two hours. "Chiron is the sign of Chiron in astrology, the manifestation in adulthood of the scars one receives in childhood.
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