While Chiron took a rather radical approach to turning his fortunes around as a teenager (hitting the school bully who bullied him), becoming a drug lord was by no means the best outcome the taciturn kid could have hoped for. The feeling of powerlessness that arises in the mixed environment hangs over the entire process of Chiron's growth.
The young Chiron chased and bullied the bullies every day after class, but her mother turned a blind eye. "He is quite good at escaping from the bullying of the bullies" is her only remark about the whole thing. As a teenager, her mother's drug addiction grew, and a life of promiscuity ensued, and Chiron was even banned from going home.
Chiron seems to have completed self-identification in the third paragraph, but how much meaning does the mother's confession mean to Chiron as an adult? How much redemption can be obtained from an old friend Kevin who has a son? To me, Kevin at this time is no different from the boy who punched Chiron at that time, a kind of hypocritical falsehood.
In the end, Chiron became the type of person he despised the most when he was young, he became a drug lord with the same contradictory personality as Yuan, and he could also be predicted to end up like Yuan, although in the film the director disagrees with Yuan. The latter's death was mentioned. It's also puzzling that a character so important to Chiron was handled so crudely by the director.
Chiron was born in a drug environment, where he would have died if there were no accidents. The content of the film (at least in my opinion) is not based on the class struggle of the black race, nor is it based on the self-identity of homosexuality, but is only based on the fate and powerlessness of the bottom individuals. Take off the black and gay labels, and the story is actually tenable.
Or, is this the theme the director wants to express?
It has to be said that Moonlight is a work with a strong personal style, but it is difficult to agree that it is a work with a high degree of completion.
In terms of tracking personal growth, he does not have the patience of Boyhood as a teenager; in editing, there is no naturalness of Manchester By The Sea. In fact, the director can use a three-stage blending method to build the mental journey of the character's growth, Nocturnal Animals (Nocturnal Animals ( Nocturnal Animals) has successfully handled the connection between the fictional plot and the mentality of real characters.
In terms of actor selection, the eyes of the three actors are indeed very similar. It can be seen that the director has indeed put a lot of effort into actor selection, but in terms of their respective performances, they are not lost, but their performance and aura are the same. The worst enemy of a good work.
The success of the film is largely due to the use of color, photography and soundtrack with a high degree of aesthetics. The color and composition are completely correct. The name of the original stage play In Moonlight Black Look Blue, produced between black and blue A deep sea-like tranquility.
Black is dark blue.
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