maroinjoundi

Moonlight is definitely my best picture of 2016, for how much that statement is worth. I felt really close to the main character Chiron: he suffers at home, school, life in general is painfully dramatic for him. He's lost, he hides from himself, he must live up to the real man culture and to what other people already planned for him. So he did, but, in the end i'd like to think Chiron managed to live with himself, be happy with who he is and knowing that's enough.

Juan(shout out to Mahershala Ali, what a beast of an actor) represent Chiron's only protection. He doesn't want him to follow the life he chose and wants to give him what his mother can't deliver: a safe home, but he couldn't manage to stop the cycle, as suffering is strictly part of Chiron's life and to many living in ghetto areas. It's not about living, but surviving.

Also, the ocean and water itself is a big character in the plot. Purification, reborn, solitude. When Juan teaches Chiron how to swim it consolidate his presence as a paternal figure, swimming means surving. And when he meets Kevin on the beach a little bean of sun shines, it's good to know someone else might be on your same boat.

The pressure, the antagonism and the castration on Little is definitely part of the "macho man" emblem. Blackness and suffering, you gotta be strong to stay alive, you must be a man, we know what that means, there's one definition, it's a standard and if you don't follow it, you're weird and different. So better be normal, or you won't make it out alive. And this is a warning.

That's the best part of the show, but only newer seasons. Sometimes he pops in, literally doesn't wanna be seen, but it's good to get a look at him