Aside from the Oscar crowning, I really want to watch this movie.
I downloaded "Moonlight Boy" on January 22nd, but I haven't dared to watch it for a long time, for fear that my heart will be heavy, and I'm afraid that I will fall into collapse again. However, on the contrary, although I had a lingering fear when I accidentally decided to start watching it today, I only cried when Kev made the chief's special for Chiron in the kitchen.
The slowness of the story makes it feel a little dull.
1. Little's
thin body is avoiding the chase. Chiron, who is being bullied, is about to break through the screen with the fear revealed in his eyes as he runs. So when Juan showed up, I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Chiron was lucky to have a great adult by his side who could protect him. Although his mother is on drugs and his family is in a mess, at least Juan can teach him how to be a real man, teach him to swim, teach him to run in the moonlight, teach him black boys look blue.
Most of the time Chiron is silent, he is taciturn And inferiority, always lowered his head, like a lonely shadow, cast under the shadow of the rose-red light from the mother's door. The olive green walls ate up the last bit of light, leaving only the loneliness that was about to overflow. I thought Chiron would be rescued and taken in by the good guys Juan and Teresa, but the truth was that Juan was the one who bought the drugs for his mother, and the one he wanted to trust and rely on.
The most beautiful scene in the whole film is probably Juan teaching Chiron to swim by the sea. Chiron is held by Juan's solid arms, lying on the sea, feeling the water rippling on his skin. Juan told him: You are in the middle of the world. There is no one else, no one can rely on him like this. Probably only at this moment did Chiron truly feel a feeling of being "loved", freedom And unrestrained.
Then they sat on the beach and talked about "Moonlight Boys":
"Running around, catching up all that light, in moonlight... black boys look blue." Juan didn't become "Blue", presumably because he didn't chase the light And he chose darkness, probably because he didn't become who he wanted to be, but at this moment, he told Chiron: "At some point you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be".
2. Chiron's
youth Chiron is still being bullied, being ridiculed and excluded because of his gay identity, and has only Kevin as a friend.
The change was probably that Juan died and his mother started taking drugs even harder. Sometimes he even loses his mind and starts confronting and arguing with him, just to grab money from him to sell drugs. He occasionally needs to hide in Teresa's "all love and all pride" house, and the "playing mom" house is probably the only place he can go.
The tragic life continues, but it seems to be even more tragic.
Blocked in the street and insulted, from his mother to Teresa, he tried to fight back in rage but still looked weak. Kissing after a long conversation, discovering that he is in love with his only friend, only to be provoked and beaten. Perhaps there is no such thing as the collapse of the world, but in the face of friends or lovers who cannot be honest about their sexuality, his unwillingness and despair will burn him out. With a face of blood, he finally resisted and was sent to the correctional center.
The last time Chiron was stuffed into the police car was to look at Kevin, and it was hard to tell whether it was more questioning or more sad. The black and white pupils are exceptionally clear, and the expression is full of deep accusations. Whether it was Kevin or Chiron, this moment left an indelible mark on their hearts.
3. Black
grew up like an armor that would make a once weak boy brave and fearless, at least from the outside, strong and strong, as if nothing could hurt him.
I guess his new code name in Atlanta should be "Blue", at least when someone calls him "B", he can think of Juan, the former drug dealer, the man who made him feel like "Dad". He grew into another Juan, and even looked a bit like his dress, with a headscarf, ear studs, a gold watch, and a gold chain, as if he had inherited all the looks of the man in his youthful memory, not flashy but tall . He also sells drugs, travels with a gun, drives a good car, and sleeps all night long.
He has always hated his mother, the existence that occupied too much haze in his life. But she was getting old, and in the rehab center, she would call him and beg him to see her, her hands would shake so she couldn't light a cigarette, and she would cry over and over again: "I love you, Chiron" and "I'" m sorry”. The meeting with the mother ended with the mother and son hugging each other and crying. Probably this is a kind of completion, re-acceptance and re-love, which is heavy and relaxing.
The midnight phone call made him decide to go back and see the person who called him by the nickname "black", the only person he ever loved. Came to the restaurant where Kevin worked, met awkwardly, and greeted politely with high fives. In ten years, both of them have changed. Even so, Kevin was very happy and entered the kitchen for him, doing chief's special with a sincere look on his face. When I saw this, I don't know if it was because of the accumulation of emotions to a certain extent, or because there were too many associations with his emotions in my head. , I started crying. The youth they once had flooded into my mind at this moment, the only friend, the kiss on the beach, the fist in front of everyone's eyes, the look of farewell, the look of reunion, the meticulous cooking, flashed moment by moment, I It seems that they have become Kevin. No matter whether they are old friends or former lovers, their bondage has been washed away by long years, and they have never forgotten each other, but they are completely broken and re-concluded at this moment. Life is small, only the moment is great.
There is another detail that makes me stunned, that is, Chiron with golden teeth secretly took off his braces when Kevin went to get the wine, maybe he didn't want Kevin to misunderstand even at all, maybe he wanted to enjoy the delicacies of one episode and one session. . Although his body has grown stronger, his heart is still soft, and he is as pure and clean as ever.
At Kevin's home by the sea, in the face of Kevin's apology and questioning, he still confided everything. Despite being embarrassed and even cowardly, it's too hard to reveal a message like "I only loved you in my life", but Chiron said: "you are the only one".
The last scene of the movie is when little (Chiron) The back of the sea, the blue boy in the moonlight.
4. As Moonlight
wrote this, there was a sudden power outage. Fortunately, there was only one small light on in the room, and when it was turned off, it was turned off, but it was a little darker. I took out a cigarette and lit one, the smoke curled up in the dark, and the ending song that I didn't know how many times it had looped through the headphones continued.
Everyone is saying that this film is not about black people, not about homosexuality, but about a person's life.
Life is not about finding yourself. Just like a line that often appears in the film: "who you are?", we are always asking such questions, but we can't always get answers. Who is Chiron? Who is Juan? Who is Kevin? In fact, everyone is just a group of people who are bound, those who are persistent in pursuit of that little bit of moonlight.
The movie has a lot of blank space, even vacancies. I want to give everyone an association, but in fact, I just don't want to talk too much. The plot is too full to make people sigh, and the relationship in series is enough. After all, the flesh-and-blood characters have experienced the life they should have experienced. We all understand without too many words. It seems that they know each other, and there is no need to describe the specific shape of the wound. They can already imagine how it will not heal. It is the saddest thing to say. What is "running away for half a lifetime and returning as a teenager", we are well aware that this is a beautiful fantasy, and it is blood when it is pierced, so it will be like a mirror image for a lifetime.
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