Moonlight

I feel so much about this film, I don’t even know where to start. It’s a perfect body of work, let’s start with the poster.

Part I

You have to look a bit keenly to tell but the picture is of three different people. Each is a representation of the same person but at different stages of his life. The first is Little, a nine-year-old boy whose already been branded words he can’t understand and looks for truth in it. As Little grows into his teen years, he is now known as Chiron and faces violence for who he is as well as having to navigate that inwards, so there is external and internal chaos which he is living through. Juan is sort of his mentor/father figure but is also selling drugs to Chiron’s mother which kind of blurs the lines because this is the life that Juan…