After coming out of the theater, listening to savage love riding under the moonless night, I always wanted to find the moon but couldn't find it, and was even deceived by the lights in the building.
Just thinking about a question, what is love?
After watching Moonlight Boy, I realized that my previous thoughts, or the expression of love in film and television dramas, were really too superficial. There seems to be no foreshadowing in the movie, nor does it talk about what love is, but every image, every look, every expression, every hesitancy to speak, is expressing the most subtle love in the heart.
I feel like love is something that is hard to describe. If it can be classified, I only want to refer to love here.
If I could put some labels on this movie, it would probably be blue, moonlight, water, music, men, women. What is commendable is that the film uses the most real and brutal special and stereotyped culture to reflect the most moving and soft places. Even if Chiron grows up to be a really strong man, you can still see his cowardice, self-doubt, thinking about the world and right and wrong in his taciturnity, and you know that he has never changed.
I like the image of water. Water is Chiron's first emotional companion. In the absence of fatherly love, Juan loves and guides him in the role of a father. It's hard to say what effect Juan's presence had on Chiron's orientation, but his role was indeed to help Chiron find and recognize himself in his childhood.
Love is not unbridled slurs and sex, casual insults to women or homosexuals. Even the so-called black culture that the audience has a stereotyped image is certainly reflected in the film, but you can see that Chiron respects all those who are willing to love him and tolerate him. Including his own mother, including Juan's girlfriend Teresa, including the Kevin who taught him to fight, who was willing to listen to him, who was willing to touch him, and who almost implored him to lie down before knocking him down.
Chiron grew up to be a person who was strong, not weak, something Kevin taught him since he was a child. The career he chose seems to let you see the previous Juan. This is their choice and their last resort. It is just a means of making a living, and it just happens to be so suitable for their talent, and he also chooses to wake up the overwhelmed teenager. them.
I still want to talk about the contrast this movie gave me. The deafening rock music, golden teeth, golden chains, and drag racing are all the surrender that Chiron threw himself into this world. It seems that the one who can really wake him up is Kevin, who has not seen him for many years. It's hard to imagine that Chiron's insistence is just Kevin himself.
After all, it's still the boy named Xiao Hei. All your agitation, all your eagerness, are the traces left in your heart by those who are important to you. You are now the product of love.
I feel that this movie makes the relationship very clear and expresses it very delicately. Juan and Teresa, Juan and Chiron, Teresa and Chiron, Juan and Chiron's mother, Chiron and her mother, Chiron and Kevin, Kevin with his wife and children. It seems like every relationship is something I can't express.
Also, there are men and women in the movie, and it seems that there are no men and women. I don't think it's a film about gays and blacks, it's about love between people, that's all. Love has no reason, it's just a heartbeat that has something to talk about, it's just a touch and reliance that can be infinitely relied on. The only thing that distinguishes between men and women is that Juan treats Xiaodian as a brother with equality and respect, and Teresa is tolerant towards Chiron like a sister and mother. I like such female characters very much, including my brother's girlfriend in the long summer, they are a kind of characters, they all use their gentleness to tolerate the bumps and bumps of youth, and teach them how to love.
So after watching this movie, I feel more and more that my previous understanding of love is extremely shallow, and even some people in their skins use this movie to express things that are in their own interests, in other words, they are selling miserably. There is no need to rush to label the roles. These are all insults to holy love, at least for me right now, it's disgusting.
Chiron does not represent all symbols, and is not used or shouted by anyone. He is just a person who wants to face his love. He has always been himself.
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