First off topic, this is a concise and smooth movie. The movie shows the audience the three stages of Chiron's life. Two of the blank spaces are very important. It is important for Black to move from one stage of his life to the next. The reason, the director did not repeat these two journeys, but left blank, which also made the film not mediocre. The audience can restore the mental journey of the characters through the concise dialogue and imagination of the characters.
Returning to the title, the shots of the film are unique and show Chiron's inner activities just right. The most impressive shots are in two places:
In the first place, when Chiron was a child, Juan taught him to swim in the sea. At first, I was surprised why the camera was placed so low, the camera swayed with the sea water, and it felt like I was about to be swallowed by the sea, and I was about to suffocate. This turbulent water is like the world that Chiron has to face every day, and I suddenly realized that the camera shows Chiron's perspective, which is the world in Chiron's eyes. Therefore, when this child who was not cared for and sheltered, and was full of fear in his heart just met Juan, silence was the way to protect himself; in addition to silence, Chiron, who had been bullied for a long time, would suppress his emotions, so when Kevin told him on the grass When Chiron was about to fight back against the perpetrator, Chiron asked why he did this. Silence and repression are the twins that grew up on Chiron. They seem cowardly, but they are the only way for Black to protect himself.
The teenage Chiron finally raised the chair in the class and swung to his cowardice, no longer repressed and silent, which also opened the huge transformation of the characters in the third stage.
In the second place, Chiron went to the restaurant to find Kevin, whom he had not seen for more than ten years. After learning that he made his fortune by selling drugs, Kevin said, "It shouldn't be like this, you are not like this." Chiron said, "You don't. Understand me." Kevin asked back, "I don't know you?" His eyes were firm. As soon as the voice fell, the bell rang in the store, Kevin got up to check out the customer, and the customer turned and left. In the camera, Kevin clears the table and goes around behind Chiron. Chiron sits with his back to the camera and does not speak. The camera is aimed at his back and slowly zooms in. After that, the camera turns to the door of the restaurant again, only to hear vehicles driving incessantly. Pass. In this scene, the coordination and switching of scenes and shots complement each other, which is very advanced! Although the camera switches to the scene of the customer checking out, it actually points to Chiron's heart. Facing Kevin's questioning and torture from the depths of his soul, perhaps Chiron's self-awareness will gradually become clear. If repression and silence are a kind of protection for oneself, slickness and sophistication are also out of protection for oneself (insert a sentence, so Chiron in adulthood lives like Juan, and Juan’s childhood is like Chiron Being bullied and lacking love. So Juan wanted to protect Chiron. When Juan's girlfriend was making the bed, she told Chiron that you were the same as Juan. You could do it yourself, but you just pretended not to, and asked others to help you.) No matter what. Whether it is silent and repressed or sophisticated and slick, for Chiron, these are not the real him. The real Chiron actually needs to be loved (Kevin actually understood Chiron as early as childhood). These rich inner monologues do not rely on the characters' words or even their expressions. The camera only slowly draws closer to Chiron's back, and the silence has its own power.
As an aside, the film is actually about a boy's growth story, he experienced cowardice, confusion, fear, want to break the routine to change his destiny, constantly prove himself, and finally found himself (Chiron is lucky, and finally found himself) , and did Juan find himself on his deathbed?) Although it is a black star, what the film wants to express is not just black people. It's people!
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