I remember a friend sent me links to ten Oscar-winning films. I wanted to start watching it at the time. "Moonlight" sounds good and poetic, so let's start with this one. Where is the poetry, single parent, school bullying, drug addiction, homosexuality...
Chiron is a black boy, with dark skin, a thin body, and a melancholy expression. He has a drug-addicted mother at home, and a group of classmates who bully him at school. For some people, life means heavy, bitter, and endless since childhood. of suffering.
Fortunately, life is not always hard. To escape the bullying of his classmates, Chiron hid in a house and met the drug lord Juan, who is also a black man from Cuba. Although he sells drugs, he does not seem to have a bad heart. He treated Chiron as his own child, patiently inspired him to speak, gave him food, took him to his girlfriend's house, taught him to swim... This man he met by chance was more like Chiron's mother A parent, he told Chiron that he was from Cuba, recalled that as a child, he once ran in the moonlight, chasing the light, and an old grandmother said that when he ran in the moonlight, he was blue, "Moonlight Boy, first appeared in what Juan told Chiron. What does Moonlight mean, or to compare it to something like "Sunshine Boy", Sunshine represents a more mainstream and optimistic image. Moonlight It has a more subtle and more silent and obscure feeling. It is the same as chasing the light, but the meaning is different. The Moonlight Boy is more difficult than the Sunshine Boy chasing the light.
Chiron has no playmates at school, except for one classmate, Kevin, who has a crush on him and asks: "Why are you always being bullied, are you too weak?" When Chiron said he was not weak, Kevin said: "It only makes sense to let them know that you are not weak". Indeed, it is not enough for you to know that you are not weak. It is only useful if the person who bullies you knows that you are not weak. The friendship between two boys is too precious, I Suspicion starts from here, Chiron has a vague sense of his sexuality, he later asked Juan what is "gay", Juan told him it was an insult to homosexuality, and told him that you can be gay, but not Let others call you gay. I feel that this shows the values of the work. Different sexual orientation is not a personal moral issue, and should be respected and tolerated by the society.
In the second paragraph, when Chiron was a teenager, he was still bullied at school. He saw the bully trembling with fear. Once, when he and Kevin were out in the wild, they couldn't help kissing and stroking...the sexual orientation was obvious. Later, the bully forced Kevin to beat someone, and the target of the beating was Chiron. In fact, as long as Chiron was beaten down, the "game" was over, but Chiron was particularly "hardcore" this time. He refused to lie down and was beaten with bruises and blood all over his face. The trainer suggested Chiron to sue, but Chiron didn't want to implicate Kevin. He chose to fight back with his own strength. This time, his anger was nothing like that. Lun chose to smash the bully from behind with a chair unexpectedly, so Chiron was sent to an institution similar to a juvenile detention center, and Chiron and Kevin lost contact since then.
Later, when he reached adulthood, Chiron also became a drug lord who sold drugs. He became strong and developed, and his "career" was flourishing, with a bright gold collar, a shiny gold bracelet, and even armed to the teeth, Even his teeth are inlaid with gold, and he has a luxury car. He has been living in another city. One day, Kevin suddenly called and told him that he had become a chef. After hearing a song, he suddenly remembered his childhood. 's companion. Then Chiron drove back to his hometown, first went to the drug rehab center to see his mother, reached a settlement with his mother, then went to see Kevin, and ate Kevin's signature dish at the restaurant. Guilt.
Then Chiron followed Kevin to his residence, where Chiron said the most touching words "Only you have touched me in this life, only you, and I have never touched anyone since then", so pure A kind of love, very touching. Then Chiron leans on Kevin's shoulder, and at the end of the film, a boy appears in the moonlight, gleaming all over.
After watching this film, I think it is difficult to frame it with one frame. In fact, each work is unique. There are also many films that express homosexuality. The first work about homosexuality, I remember that the work was very persistent and firm in the expression of love, and the time span was very long. I cried when I saw the last part of death. There is also Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet", which involves a Chinese person's homosexuality. It is a comedy that expresses the ethical conflict between homosexuality and Chinese people. Putting these three films together, blacks, whites, and yellows have homosexuality.
In this film, Chiron and Kevin's homosexuality is the main line, but I think there are also many side branches. For example, the love between Juan and Chiron is similar to a father-son relationship. Chiron eventually became a drug lord. Although it was related to someone he knew in prison, I think it was more related to Juan. The boy unconsciously put Juan As a role model, Juan told the boy: "What you decide to do, no one can decide for you." Although he makes his own decisions, it is actually closely related to the living environment since he was a child. Juan sells drugs and his mother is an addict. In this environment Here, doing a drug-related business seems like a no-brainer.
In the middle of the work, when Chiron was a teenager, Juan died. There is no specific account of how he died in the film, but he could vaguely feel some kind of risk in the drug business. Chiron took the old path that Juan had taken. , we can't help but worry, what will happen to Chiron, I don't know, we leave it to the audience to imagine, we only know that it is not easy to live, it is not easy to grow as a person, and it is not easy to find yourself. In the film, Chiron said that he had never really been himself before, so is being a drug lord really being himself?
There are two more important women in the whole film, one is Chiron's mother, and the other is a drug addict, depressed and incapable of loving her children. "You can send the child to live outside at will. When the drug attack is in pain, life is better than death. "I need relief, please, baby, mother, please, give me the money", knowing that the son has a little bit in his hand. He desperately asked the child for the money Teresa gave him. He had no mother’s personality and dignity. He was so sad to see that. Later, when the mother was in a drug rehab center, she confessed to her son: “I am a waste, I have ruined my life. everything, but you don't go my old way, God knows I didn't give you love when you needed it the most, but you have to know that I love you, love you very much, I'm sorry", hey, what to say, although the film The kind-hearted son hugged his mother, but we know that sometimes the hurt of this lack of love in childhood will never be erased in a lifetime.
Another woman was Teresa, a warm, loving, optimistic young woman. At first, when Chiron refused to speak to Juan, Juan took him to meet her girlfriend, Teresa. I feel that my girlfriend can make the child talk. It is true. In front of such a woman, the child will not consciously relax and feel the love and warmth. When Chiron was kicked out by his mother, Chiron went to stay at her house, Terry Sha showed a very warm feeling. She said that if he wanted to come, she could stay at any time, as long as he wanted, and taught him to make sheets. She said to Qiren, "Don't keep your head down in my house, this house is full of love. and pride", the girl's name Teresa reminds me of Mother Teresa. I don't know if there is a metaphor in the name, but it does make people feel a warm and broad love. Finally, Kevin wants to find Chiron, It was also the phone call to Teresa's place. It could be seen that Chiron and Teresa had always maintained good contact.
Teresa is a beam of light in the film, a beam of light that once warmed Chiron. She is the one person who never hurt Chiron. Juan is good to him, but he sells drugs to his mother, and his mother loves him, but her love is hurtful, and Kevin is also good to Chiron, but he still beats him for Gu Quan himself when he is forced.
Love like Teresa is priceless in the world!
Moonlight is a sad story of a black boy growing up! Their courage to chase in the moonlight is admirable! He is not only Juan of the previous generation who came to the United States from Cuba, but also Chiron of this generation who grew up in a civilian area. People like them were born humble, grew up hard, and trying to live to find themselves is the meaning of life!
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