Moonlight Response At first glance, moonlight may seem to be an ordinary story about the struggles of an African American boy, whose mom is a drug addict and who gets picked on at school, but it is so much more than that. The underline plot of the movie is much deeper than that, it is about the life on a boy who struggles with his sexuality and has a hard time figuring out who he is. It is also about his relationship with Juan, who quickly became his mentor and the father that he never had. It is also about his relationship with Kevin, who may be seen as Chiron’s only love. But most importantly it is about how one boy can be so different in the stages of his life, it is about Little, Chiron, and Black, who just happen to be the same person. The movie starts out with establishing who Juan is and what he does for a living and how he finds Little in an abandoned house, where he was hiding from some other boys. Juan took little home and let him spend the night. After that Little spent a lot of time with Juan and his girlfriend, Juan taught him how to swim and became a father figure to him. At the end of …show more content…
He starts to resemble Juan in various ways. He has the same job as him, he wears similar clothes, drives fancy old cars and even wears the same head piece as Juan once did. Black gets a very unexpected call from Kevin, which brings back old feelings, so he rushes to visit him. On the way to see Kevin, he stops by a rehab center where his drug-free mom works. She apologizes to him for the way he treated her, but I think that Black cannot forgive her after everything that she did. He finally gets to Kevin’s where he tells him that he was the only guy to ever touch him and really the only person he has ever been with. The movie ends on a touching note of they sitting similar to the way they did at the beach the night they kissed for the first
This movie expresses the struggle of a middle class Mexican-American family and their struggle to find a sense of identity and a place where they belong. Even though watching this movie was so easy for me because
The Mexican siblings are caught between their culture and that of America. Also, the Japanese girl is split between her culture and that of the US. The people from the two foreign cultures seem to identify with the American
They kept chasing Mann and accusing him of being Jesse Hunter (who they never met, who was the supposed rapist), but he was at the auction when the ‘incident’ happened. The mob grew to over a thousand, KKK members and neighboring white supremacists joined the residents of Sumner and after a week of lynchings, rapes, torture, shootings, burning and other tortures, the town of Rosewood was gone. One white man teaches his son that he 's superior to Negroes. The boy is forced to look at lynchings and murders, is told that this makes a man.
This film involves Hispanic culture that relates to my heritage when the movie displays familia gatherings. The mother, Dolores is cooking for everybody with meringue music blasted in the barrio. For example, this relates to my life in so many ways because I am Hispanic. I am of Hispanic decent because my mother is from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Mexico
He sees African American youths finding the points of confinement put on them by a supremacist society at the exact instant when they are finding their capacities. The narrator talks about his association with his more youthful sibling, Sonny. That relationship has traveled
In the movie “Friday” it displays a typical day in the ghetto and what obstacles two young black men had to go through just to get through one day. Ice Cube a famous American rapper from LA’s popular 90’s hip hop group NWA wrote this historic black comedic/drama film and along plays the main character Craig Jones. Craig plays the neighborhood hero after a chaotic day where he deals with bullies, his love life, annoying neighbors, and scary drug dealers. The film is based in south central LA in the mid 90’s where Craig and his best friend Smokey who is played by comedian/actor Chris Tucker find themselves in trouble after thinking it would be a typical Friday in the ghetto. Craig a young black man in his early twenties lives at home with his parents is determined to leave the ghetto but there 's just some things holding him back.
After viewing Moonlight, which was personally my favorite film of the year, I choose to analyze the scene when Blue takes Chiron to the ocean and teaches him to swim (17:20-19:30). This scene first drew my attention because of Blue’s character. The dynamic of a crack dealer with a heart-of-gold has this duality about it where my heart tells me to love him as a person, but my head tells me that this person is Chiron’s mother’s dealer, and I should despise him for it. Yet, when I watch this scene I can’t help but think of how much I love Blue as a character. He is able to fill in for the role of a father figure, and teach Chiron about life.
It follows Cole, a member of the black community, as he guides viewers through what life is like when living as part of the black community. The
She watches her mother sacrifice her virtue in order to keep them together, loose her sanity when another child is taken from her and eventually surrender her faith and health. And in the midst of all the chaos Juana learned, “to do what you have to do,” for the sake of your family In her search family proves to be an important theme. Once, when Juana risks her livelihood to search for her father, leaving her home with little money, and no knowledge of where to find him if he was even alive. Another way the importance of family is emphasized is in the sacrifices of each character for the sake of what they found most valuable, their family.
The movie Moonlight is about a protagonist named Chiron, who struggles with his identity. The movie is structurally broken down into three stages of Chiron’s life, his childhood, adolescent, and adult life. Chiron is an African American male struggling with self-discovery and confusion regarding his masculinity and the world around him, which consist of drugs, poverty, bullying, and aspiring to uncover his true sexual identity. Chiron’s characterizations are timid, quiet, shy and vulnerable. He is extremely quiet and expresses much of his feelings through nonverbal communication.
Boyhood embodies coming of age where the director Richard Linklater with Mason Junior, Olivia (Mason’s mother), Mason senior (Mason’s father and Olivia’s ex-husband), Samantha (Mason’s sister) builds an emotional saga which enumerates individual emotions and relationships. Linklater made film history by shooting the motion picture for 4-5 days (consistently) for the traverse of 12 years just to draw out the progression of time. Boyhood is an intimate movie which covers relationships between children and parents, adolescence, and child psychology, and further exemplifies the development of a six year old boy to an eighteen year old man, where the characters go through a series of emotional and physical changes, Mason’s voice drops, he grows taller, his parents grow older, you can feel the adolescence oozing out of the two
The film starts out with an African American man walking in the suburbs. He sees a car and is frightened. A person in a hood strangles him from behind and kidnaps him. This illustrates the fear African Americans have in a white society. The movie then fasts forwards to New York City and turns the focus on Chris who is a successful young photographer.
The movie Moonlight follows the story of the character Chiron, as he transitions through three main stages of his life beginning with him as a poor little boy from Miami, followed by his adolescence, and lastly his life as young adult. Throughout his childhood and adolescence Chiron is often teased and called homophobic slurs by the other neighborhood kids. The movie is about Chiron learning how to cope with the different struggles in his life such as his sexuality, his relationship with his mother, falling in love, and heartbreak. In this paper I will be analyzing the character development of Chiron in his three stages of life as well as Kevin’s character. I will also be analyzing the fighting scene in act 2 and the genre of the film.
Anecdote Suddenly one Friday night, Javier started seeing a bunch of gangsters arriving to the party in which they were at too. They were entering one after another, and began fighting randomly as they walked in. One of the gangsters that had arrived was holding up a gun to Javier and Javier’s cousin panicked that he would be killed. So, Javier’s older cousin runs to the back of his car and takes out a gun and passes it to his friend, he grabbed it and killed the ruthless guy that was going to kill Javier.
This “eight-hour movie” released on Netflix in the summer of 2016 became a cultural phenomenon within months, hurling it’s young cast and hitherto unknown creators, the Duffer Brothers ( identical twins Matt and Ross Duffer ), into near-instant celebrity. At the centre of this thought-provoking supernatural horror story is a small group of socially awkward kids living in the early Eighties in Indiana. Mike, Dustin, Lucas and Will love playing Dungeons and Dragons and riding their chopper-style bicycles. ( If this reminds viewers of the pastimes of the kids in a certain blockbuster 1982 film about a lovable alien, it’s no accident - Stranger Things is chock-full of nods to popular early Eighties films and books, and has a soundtrack of classic