Moonlight

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1. ›MOVIE REVIEW :Moonlight@filoso1496d

   

   The director actively uses color to bring the reality he is facing into the realm of empathy. As the title suggests, the scene in which the blue color  like the moonlight appears is the moment when the energy of 'positivity' spreads, whereas the  red color is explicitly expressed at the moment of threatening or oppression of the main character 'Chiron'. In a word, mise-en-scène is a very rich movie, but it may be a bit uncomfortable for the audience who want a drama genre that you can watch without any burden. Characteristic elements can also be seen in terms of shooting techniques such as handheld and extreme close-ups, but fortunately, I felt that it matched the overall sentiment of the film, that is, the title of 'unstable life' as a minority.  If the Dardenne Brothers' handhelds capture the heartbreak and collapse, Barry Jenkins's is filled with bursting anger and anxiety.
   

   'Juan' is a person who has had a great influence on Chiron's growth and establishment of identity. Although not related by blood, Juan sincerely hopes that Chiron doesn't become a drug dealer like him. So, he builds a bond with Shah Theory from time to time and offers advice to help this young boy grow up to be a healthy and independent being. It is safe to say that Juan's lines are at the heart of the film's conclusion.
   

   'Under the moonlight, everything is green'
   

   speaks This statement contains the truth that sexual identity and race never define a person's attributes. In addition to this,
   

   'You have to decide what kind of person you will become one day.'
   

   In other words, we can understand Juan's sincerity, who wants to overcome the trials and tribulations and walk the path of Chiron in the end, even if they come.
   

   As a young man, Chiron is faced with a period of ordeal in earnest.  At his school, he is subjected to bullying, verbal and physical violence, and his single mother's dependence on drugs increases, making it difficult to sustain daily life. In this situation, his only friend 'Kevin' feels a special feeling beyond friendship, which one day leads to some kind of sympathy on the beach under the moonlight. Afterwards, due to an unexpected incident, Chiron is imprisoned in a juvenile detention center in another area, and naturally separates from Kevin. The director clearly shows how difficult life as a minority can be. All the circumstances surrounding Chiron's ego, such as blacks, sexual minorities, poverty, and single mothers, intervene in his choices, encouraging him to become a distorted existence over time. Some scenes come as a bit of a shock, but I think this may be a kind of unconscious superiority or defense mechanism that we feel because we are on the side of the majority.  So, after the movie ended, I began to feel sorry for someone in the past who would have looked uncomfortable in my life. At the same time, I had no choice but to feel self-help hypocrisy and humbleness at the same time, wondering why I had such thoughts and reacted in such a way, even though they were just 'humans'. So thank you for this unkind movie. Because this film does not comfort the few, but makes them look back.

   As an adult, Chiron's appearance has changed 180 degrees from before. However, her longtime friend Kevin Mann, whom she meets by chance, detects Shah Theon's 'real' self, hidden by ragged muscles, precious metals, flashy cars and a nice house. After a few conversations, he finds out that Chiron, a boy and a young man who has been hurt by it, and who felt friendship and love for him at the same time, has essentially not changed. Not being the grown-up he had hoped for, Shah Theory is still not completely free from the wounds of his past. However, he only intentionally forgets those memories.  However, when he meets Kevin and hears his sincere apology, he begins to slowly open the door of his closed heart.

   Director Barry Jenkins, along with director Damien Chacelle of <La La Land>, is attracting attention as a young master of Hollywood.  The aesthetic detail of the film is similar to that of a new director, 'Xavier Dolan', and the way it unfolds and the depth of themes in it reminds me of another black director, 'Steve McQueen'.  If we carefully anticipate, I wonder if there will be a few more works that symbolically reveal the identity of black people. Let's look forward to his rise.
   

   
   

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2. ›Moonlight (movie)/Moonlight (pelicula)@takeru2552220d

   

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   When you spend so much time consuming content, it's hard to find something really cool that you can talk about. Everything seems very monotonous to you and therefore, talking about a common movie is not very different from talking about another common movie, since they are all basically the same. However, every once in a while you find something different, or, for one reason or another, the film makes you feel things that you did not feel long ago with what you consumed. Moonlight, the winner of the Oscar for best film in 2017, made me feel that, a film that calmed me down and I found it very good, to watch at any time.

   Cuando pasas tanto tiempo consumiendo contenido, es difícil encontrar algo realmente bueno de lo que puedas hablar. Todo te parece muy monótono y por ende, hablar de una película equis no es muy diferente a hablar de otra película equis, ya que todas son básicamente lo mismo. Sin embargo, de vez en cuando encuentras algo diferente, o, por una u otra razón, la película te hace sentir cosas que hace mucho tiempo no sentías con lo que consumías. Moonlight, la ganadora del Oscar a mejor película en 2017 me hizo sentir eso, una película que me calmó y me pareció muy buena, para ver en cualquier momento.

   

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   I had an idea when watching Moonlight that turned out to be completely different, that is, I really thought that I had won the Oscar for being an inclusive film (since that would be very normal in the Oscars), but the truth is that the film has interesting shots that They make it a very enjoyable slide of lifes, with incredible performances that can sometimes leave you speechless.

   Tenía una idea al ver Moonlight que resultó ser completamente diferente, es decir, realmente pensé que había ganado el Oscar por ser una película inclusiva (ya que eso sería muy normal en los Oscars), pero la verdad es que la película tiene planos interesantes que hacen que sea un slide of lifes muy disfrutable, con actuaciones increíbles que a veces te pueden hasta dejar boquiabierto.

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   Here is a little of the plot: the film follows the life of Chiron, an African American who lives in a not very good condition. After being found by Juan, a Cuban who takes pity on him, he begins to be raised by Juan and his wife, while in parallel his mother mistreats him as she becomes a drug addict. The movie is divided into three parts: Little, Chiron and Black, which account for their childhood, adolescence and adulthood respectively. With this we can see a different tone at each stage of the movie, but without losing its essence, it is as if the movie matured with the protagonist, but without getting lost at any time, and that, although it is easy to say, is not at all easy to do

   Aquí un poco de la trama: la película sigue la vida de Chiron, un afroamericano que vive en una condición no muy buena. Tras ser encontrado por Juan, un cubano que se apiada de él, empieza a ser criado por Juan y su esposa, mientras que en paralelo su mamá lo maltrata ya que se vuelve una drogadicta. La película se divide en tres partes: Little, Chiron y Black, que cuentan su niñez, adolescencia y adultez respectivamente. Con esto podemos ver un tono diferente en cada etapa de la película, pero sin perder su esencia, es como si la película madurara con el protagonista, pero sin perderse en ningún momento, y eso, aunque es fácil de decir, no es para nada fácil de hacer.

   

   

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   The peace and tension this film made me feel is incredible. Perhaps it is because it is a slide of life, which tells us the life of our protagonist, with its ups and downs, that I have been so in love. A film that takes its time to show us the happiness of a child when playing with his friends, to the discomfort of a teenager having his first sexual experience, to end the maturity of a character when looking back on his life. Something great that I would really like everyone to see, as it is very worthwhile.

   Es increíble la paz y la tensión que me hizo sentir esta película. Tal vez sea porque es un slide of life, que nos cuenta la vida de nuestro protagonista, con sus altos y bajos, que yo he quedado tan enamorado. Una película que se toma su tiempo para mostrarnos la felicidad de un niño al jugar con sus amigos, hasta la incomodad de un adolescente al tener su primera experiencia sexual, para terminar con la madurez de un personaje al ver en retrospectiva su vida. Algo grandioso que en serio me gustaría que todo el mundo viese, ya que vale mucho la pena.

   

   

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3. ›Barry Jenkins' 'Moonlight' Review: Learning to find yourself in a world of oppression@namiks3232d

   

   I absolutely love Moonlight -- it's a film that takes a serious look at how society can both positively and negatively impact a person's life and change their perception of themselves. There's no doubt that society, for some, can be the constant weight of various expectations on the shoulders of the vulnerable; while some manage to deal with such suppression, others hide in a shell -- a shell that tells a different story to what it contains.

   Moonlight follows Chiron's life in three different parts: his childhood, his teenage years, and adulthood. Chiron, in the eyes of the ignorant, is a child that is different from most. He comes from a broken family that is rich in neglect, drug abuse, and prostitution. Each of these awful things plays a major part in how Chiron grows out of childhood and a young adult.

   Chiron begins to explore this rough exterior as life goes on. His personality changes and he becomes someone that he clearly is not, and it's a sad outcome caused by years of pressure on his peers for being gay, as well as the neglect caused by his mother. Chiron explores this facade of masculinity in order to push away those who have always kept him down in the dirt; he tells everyone just through his appearance and personality that he is no longer the fragile child he once was.

   Having been raised more by a not-so-good Juan in a more adult manner than his own mother, Chiron slowly gets caught up in the same shady drug-dealing ways later on in life. Chiron knows this isn't who he wants to be: he doesn't want to be the person that provides drugs and neglect to the households similar to the one he had to grow up in.

   Moonlight's third part is Chiron's eventual realisation that he doesn't have to hide away and pretend to be a person he never was, and it is made apparent when he comes into contact with an old childhood friend of his that has always acknowledged the harships Chiron had to deal with -- his friend, sadly, was never strong enough to stick up for him, and also explored his tough-guy exterior in his youth in order to be ceased from the oppressive ways of society.

   I love that Moonlight manages to be so much more than a coming-out story; it's so much more with its exploration of childhood struggles, poor parenthood, and the pressure that others place on us to simply be people we do not want to be.

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