And return how he responds to that perception. Chiron’s identity is always interacting in this community shaped by how they see him and label him. The choice explores the relationship between an external persona a persona in an internal self. This continuity between the actor’s performances but to an outsider, they are not the same person. This reinstates that idea that we are not all the same people in stages of our life. And lastly, the hardened Black that puts on a gangster fasaud to repress himself. The teenager Sygone who’s dealing with his mother’s worsening addictions. It first starts with the lost young Little whose nicknames is an insult cast on him and a name he must reject. By casting three different actors for the three different times in Shyrone’s life. This highlights the fragility, mutability and the complexity of a person’s identity over time.

The film stands out for its structure in three acts.

Even if you don’t feel the same emotions, this taps into many emotions that we all might feel because we are all different people at different stages in our lives. He is pressured by his hyper male Miami environment to deny those feelings and his sexuality. And in both cases, it sets out to challenge those commonly held stereotypes of black men. The story is as much about performed masculinity as it is about growing up gay. In Moonlight we follow Shyrone in three chapters of his life, following three phases of his life that stands out for its form and execution. Moonlight was loosely adapted from an unpublished play from Tarell McCraney called, Black Boys Look Blue. Berry Jenkins intimate film Moonlight, follows the struggle of a young sensitive black man trying to find himself against his society’s expectations of masculinity and identity.

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