2016 Directed by Barry Jenkins
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Joshua Adeniji Onnalee Blank Christopher Bonis Alessandro Checcacci Chris David Frederick Howard Mathew Waters
MOONLIGHT is *MAGNIFICENT.* a specific but utterly symphonic portrait of masculinity in the modern world. every shot is seared into my brain. it's also a devastatingly beautiful love story. to put it in the most reductive / tantalizing terms possible, think CAROL by way of Frank Ocean.
most likely the best film of 2016 so far.
The hype has never, ever, ever been so real. And the best birthday present that I ever could have asked for. A marvel -- a modern masterwork of unadulterated understanding. Understanding of isolation, of idiosyncrasies; understanding of care, of compassion; understanding of darkness & disparities, of spectrums, of sexuality; understanding of memories & maliciousness, of (forced) numbness, of nostalgia; understanding of catharsis. Catharsis. The third act of this film is nothing short of the purest shaping and structuring of cathartic cinema. One of, if not the finest sophomore feature of the last half-decade. A miracle of a film... an experience which we are blessed to have exist in our current, rapturously unsympathetic reality.
It doesn't matter who you sleep with, look like, voted for, your age, what part of the world you live in, your hairstyle, who your favorite member of Nickelback is, what type of car you drive, what music you listen to, your sex; a good movie is a good movie. You don't have to be a certain "type" of person to appreciate quality cinema. A great film should bring people closer, not rip them apart. That's what I got out of Barry Jenkins' Moonlight.
Mahershala Ali is the motherfucker, ain't he? Fuck yes! What a screen presence. The orange juice scene will stay with me for a very long time. For such a short amount of time on screen, Mr…
I'm not sure we as a society deserve a movie as empathetic and open-hearted as Moonlight right now, but I'm grateful it exists.
I can never breathe during the final scene in the kitchen. I only know when it’s time once the waves begin to crash. The beckoning and roar of the Atlantic become characters via this powerful script. The motif of the ocean juxtaposed against Moonlight’s unforgiving Miami is almost as beautiful as it is cruel.
The film solidifies Barry Jenkins as one of the most important visual directors working today. His eye is not just for environments but for the story told through the physicality of Chiron. The way the cinematography decides to bounce light off of the whites of eyes shows a commitment not to aesthetics but to character. These three actors are able to capture the essence of a…
Moonlight has fantastic acting all around the board, all of the three actors who played Chiron in his three stages of life were utterly phenomenal and convey so much emotional without uttering a word. What I really liked is that Barry Jenkins the director doesn’t make you sympathize with Chiron because he’s gay or black, but because you sympathize with him as a character.
The cinematography is also great, one of the best shot films of 2016
I don't know if I'll ever be able to truly put into words what this film means to me.
There's too much ground to cover and the tools that language gives me are too far removed to be sufficient. I could talk forever about what this films means to me in terms of masculinity, intimacy, vulnerability, family, love, and a number of other subjects on both a deeply personal and a social level.
I could talk about the beauty of the film's construction, a film that on the level of craft feels as though it were conjured through a magic woven of the same material that makes up my aesthetic taste. Every shot, detail, edit feels as though it speaks…
This was already near the top of my rewatch list, but then Aretha died and some of the articles reminded me that "One Step Ahead" had been used in this movie—twice. Now there's nothing else to watch.
P.S. This is one of the best movies of the century. I cannot wait for Beale Street.
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