In the moonlight, the black boy looks like blue. This sentence is so beautiful.
I haven't seen this film before, because countless film critics say that this is a black version of Wong Kar Wai. I have seen so much of the original Wong Kar Wai, what black version do I watch?
However, after really looking at it, I found that it didn't stop there. First of all people like Wong Kar Wai are real, those light and shadow, atmosphere, and grammar of the image. Seeing a film from the director's point of view for the first time, I realized the difference in narrative for the first time: this is an expressionist verse, not a realist account.
But "Moonlight" doesn't just stop at imitating Wong Kar-wai's style, it obviously has its own strong words to say. What struck me the most was the fact that when a boy grows into a man, he also becomes a drug dealer. It troubles me and convinces me. Why? He suffered from the bad influence of drugs since he was a child - his mother was emotionally unstable due to drug use and neglected to take care of him, so that CHIRON had to go to JUAN and his girlfriend's house to seek a safe haven. JUAN was already dead at the beginning of the second part. He didn't say how he died, probably because of his identity as a drug dealer. Drugs have always had a negative impact in CHIRON's life. When he finally grew up, why should he be a drug dealer?
Closely linked to it is masculinity. CHIRON, who was bullied in childhood and adolescence because of his feminine temperament, eventually turned into a muscular, drug dealer with gold chains and teeth.
No one dared to bully him now.
In this way, CHIRON escaped persecution by joining the persecutors.
So, this is not a triumph of growth, just a closed loop of a sad history.
But the film is still tender. The grown-up CHIRON, after literally armed to the teeth, went to see KEVIN again, and in front of him, he revealed his true self, who was expecting, helpless, gentle and vulnerable. The adult CHIRON actor is really good. At the moment when he and KEVIN hug each other again, you can really see the difference - take Zhang Ailing's words, the two have had intimate contact, and the feeling is different when the body touches again. of. But in the instant of 0.1 second, he showed you the kind of gentle hesitation and cover-up, as if the tide of memories rolled over in an instant, drowning him completely.
And then there's the terse and powerful ending: the blue black boy in the moonlight. This is the return of CHIRON's true IDENTITY: a sincere, vulnerable and beautiful gay boy who can be less MAN.
Finally, a lot of people have criticized this film for being "politically correct", but after watching it, you will know that it does not discuss racism with much fanfare - the entire cast is black, bullying and being bullied Yes, they are all black. So, unlike GET OUT, this is not a manifesto against white people. Its focus is always on the growth of an individual. But I also don't want to say that this has nothing to do with the black/white racial conflict, because CHIRON, as a poor black man, can only grow up in a drug-infested neighborhood and eventually become another drug dealer. The background of its history and reality, and the cause of this background, the white people are inseparable after all.
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