"Moonlight" is special in this regard. Although the film begins with homosexuality as a label, but in fact the film does not particularly deliberately portray this. And more to show the survival experience of black boys.
Chiron lacked maternal love and family warmth since childhood, and was bullied. However, he is still trying to protect himself and try his best to be a good boy. Drug dealer Juan, let him experience the feelings of fatherly love. In middle school, he met his true love, Kevin, his only friend since childhood. However, none of them were able to reach out, and even deliberately betrayed by Kevin, he fought back with violence. As a youth, he became a drug dealer like Juan, armed to the teeth. Seeing my mother in rehab was like a stranger. When he met Kevin again, he took off all his arms and became a gentle man with full of affection in his eyes.
Although, this is a story about a black kid growing into an adult. What is touching is that the film does not deliberately shape the rift between black and white cultures, or amplify how black people should strive to integrate into the mainstream society, and the process of gaining recognition is not easy. This is a story that can be put on any minority, even on any race.
This is probably a new generation of black directors, a new understanding of their own culture and social identity.
In the same way, films with black people as the main object of performance are no longer rough in the style of images and editing, but show a kind of tenderness and delicacy, which makes the audience feel very happy no matter from the image or from the soundtrack .
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