Analysis Of The Movie ' Moonlight Jenkins '

The second theoretical perspective present in Moonlight is the developmental theory. The developmental theory examines the changes that families experience over their lifespans. (Benokraitis, 36). The framework of the film fits perfectly with this perspective, as the film is split into 3 parts, representing 3 stages of Chiron’s life. Each part is signified by the name Chiron goes by at that point in life. Stage one he is called Little, stage two he goes by Chiron, and stage three he is known as Black. We watch as Chiron grows and over this time period learns how to handle different situations. One of the most prevailing developments throughout the film is how Chiron deals with his mother’s addiction. As a child, there isn’t much anything he can do. But as a teenager, he first reacts with compliance, which later develops into anger and unwillingness to even address the situation. His peers tease him about his mother’s addiction, but Chiron will not do anything about it. In the third stage of live we learn that Chiron, now going by the name Black, is a drug dealer himself. One could argue this is due to the socialization he had to drugs throughout his life. Socialization is the process of acquiring

Part Two “Chiron” fast forwards to Chiron, now a high school student, still continuing to be bullied by his peers, who now more than ever suspect him to be gay. Nothing much has changed, he is still very coiled up and scrawny framed. Chiron and Kevin have continued to stay friends through out the years, but in the middle of the scene, there friendship takes a different turn. One night on the beach Kevin and Chiron share and intimate moment, Chiron’s first and only homosexual encounter with a man. Not long after Kevin is pressured by the high schools bully Terrel, to attack Chiron. It makes no sense, as to why Kevin would do such a thing after an intense, intimate moment the two had just previously shared. This act is another reminder to Chiron that he cannot trust anyone, especially after the complete betrayal that Kevin has shown in front of countless other students. Chiron and Kevin shared an emotional connection that he has never experienced before. The scene ends as, Chiron walks in to class, as per usual does not say one word, and slams Terrel in the back of the head with a chair and is taken to Juvenile Detention. This is a defining moment as we see Chiron standing up for him self. However, it leaves the audience wanting more. Now as part two comes to a conclusion we see that Chiron had the opportunity to become his own and live up to his true identity. Yet, Not much has changed, but Because he was denied this as a young boy, as a teenager he still is

Frantz Fanon was a Martinique-born, Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post colonial studies, Marxism, and critical theory. He was born in 1925 and died in 1961. The quote above is from Fanon’s first book, Black Skin, White Masks (1952), originally titled as “An Essay for the Disalienation of Blacks.” Fanon, in this book is providing a prognosis about the lived experience of the black man. He is concerned with describing the place that is held by blacks in the mid 20th century and illustrates the issues of race and racism and to point the reader toward a better and free future for all men. The quote above shows how oppression gives rise to ways of being. Fanon’s experience and the background of the time period he was living in justifies his hostility when he argues that the black man is constantly trying, but never fully accomplishing, to be white and to integrate into the white man’s world. In this essay I will show the three phases Fanon goes through to reach this conclusion: to escape his blackness,

Disney has faced a large amount of criticism from critics over the tropes and stereotypes that it portrays in its animated films. This is not a recent event however. One of Disney’s most notorious and controversial films, Song of The South, was released in 1946. Song of the South, set during the Reconstruction Era, focuses on a young boy named Johnny who learns that his parents will being living apart for an unknown amount of time, moves to a plantation in Georgia, while his father continues to live in Atlanta. Depressed and confused over the recent events Johnny decides to run away to Atlanta, but is drawn to the voices of Uncle Remus, an ex-slave living on the plantation, telling stories of Br’er Rabbit. Although it is implied that the African American workers are no longer Johnny’s family property, the black characters are still wholly subservient and are happy to be so. James Baskett plays Uncle Remus as a blissfully, happy companion ready to please. Due to this “magical negro” trope, the characters’ ridiculously stereotypical voices, and the unrealistic happy and joyful relationship between the white landowners and their black help, Song of The South, is one of Disney’s most offensive, racist, and fictitious film. Disney’s portrayal of Uncle Remus is his veiled justification of the mistreatment that minorities received before and after the Reconstruction Era.

Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight depicts the coming-of-age of a young black boy as he struggles with and endures abuse for his sexuality, causing him to hide his internal conflicts. The life of the protagonist, Chiron, is split into his three main stages of life, with each part focusing on the physical and emotional abuse he endures due to his homosexual orientation. When the viewer first meets Chiron, he is running from bullies. As he ages, the bullying follows him, causing him to harden and avoid vulnerability in his adult life. Jenkins uses climactic scenes in Chiron’s life to portray how prejudice against black sexuality forces him to conceal his true identity. In Moonlight, Jenkins’ cinematic style illustrates Chiron’s public and private

“Black Skin, White Masks,” by Frantz Fanon is a book that explains the psychology of racism. Fanon studied medicine in France. He specialized in psychiatry. The novel looks at the minds of blacks under white rule, and the effects race has on French society. Throughout the book Fanon discusses his experience with racism in 1950’s France. He discusses many concepts like language barriers, race, dependency complexes, and other controversies between blacks and whites. The book talks of events that were dated in the 1950’s, but these concepts can help us to understand racism in America today.

The dominance of the white race is evident through the power that it holds in a traditional society. Throughout The Bluest Eye, Claudia and Frieda, two young black girls, gradually begin to hate Maureen Peal, a lighter-skinned “friend” with whom they attend school. Claudia and Frieda despise the beauty that other members of society see in Maureen and attempt to figure out the reason for Maureen’s power over themselves. Claudia argues that “Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred,” and that the only thing they had to fear was “the Thing that made her beautiful and not [them]” (Morrison 74). When Claudia references the “Thing to fear,” she is addressing Maureen’s lighter skin tone and acceptance into society, and not her own blackness, despite the fact that Maureen is not a part of the white community. Claudia’s hatred toward Maureen illustrates the power that light-skinned, and primarily white, individuals have over blacks to deceive people as well as place themselves above everyone else. The ability for the white community to assume its position at the top of the social hierarchy

The movie starts off in the home of Chiron where he lives with his crack addict mother, Paula, in the hood of Florida, Miami. Chiron was a small shy boy, who was often referred to as ‘little’ due to his size and personality. Little was often bullied quite regularly and finds himself in abandoned house hiding from the flock of bullies chasing him. Where drug dealer, Juan, finds him and offers to take him home. Essentially the whole time Chiron is with Juan he is timed and shy and doesn’t contemplate saying a word, so to counter whatever Juan was saying he stares at the food that had been bought for him. Still without saying a word. Juan takes little back to his house to meet his wife Teresa, who feeds him and lets him stay there the night. Juan the next morning takes little to his house, where his mother, Paula, is extremely distraught and

Moonlight is really a unique coming-of-age story about an infinitely more ignored demographic of homosexual, and black people.Told in three parts, the movie follows Chiron first as a new child , whose early signals of homosexuality produce him the mark of school bullies. Later, we see Chiron being an uncomfortable teenager visiting phrases together with his hidden needs while attempting to avoid the drugs and crime that infest his neighbourhood.The last part examines Chiron being an adult. He is seen as strong and macho man, however the hard outer is a disguise for a soft heart wounded by a community that's never acknowledged his kind.Several people play a big role in his life: Chiron's drug abuser mom Paula,the neighbourhood drug supplier

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is an illustration of a fantasy world full of seduction, desire and death. It explores the corrupted desires of society, while counterbalancing between its subconscious and social world. The film disrupts all nostalgic knowledge we have of American suburbia by juxtaposing the fluidic norms of gender and socioeconomic roles. As well as evoke neurotic notions of masculinity. However the construction of women being used as agents to the physical and social desires of men, create an empirical judgment on the perpetuance of male dominance and their ability to comply with societal rules. When examined from this logic, the men in Blue Velvet are constantly seen and shown as aggressors, and perpetrators of women’s demise.

Black Skin, White Masks is a passionate study of colonial racism and urges the racially oppressed to take action against the injustice of racism. Fanon, is trying to make his reader gain a clear insight into the effects of racial oppression. Even though Black Skin’s White Masks is a piece of academic writing, it is written with personal nuances by shifting from the first, second and third person (“I”, “You”. “They”). He wants his reader to relate and identify with the colonized and he wants “to enable the man of colour to understand…the psychological elements that can alienate his fellow Negro.”

Music plays in the background as a blue vintage car pulls into a driveway. The car stops, and so does the music. The driver, a middle-aged black man tosses a pack of cigarettes on the dashboard and steps out of the car. This is the opening scene of Moonlight, written by Barry Jenkins and Tarrell Alvin McCraney. Moonlight follows Chiron, an African American boy throughout three periods of his life, portrayed by three different acts: Little, Chiron and Black. It is a film that influenced my perspective on African American social life on multiple levels, specifically the presence of hyper masculinity, the view on sexuality and the drugs in struggling communities. Moonlight is one of the few glimpses I’ve had of primarily black communities, and certainly the first glimpse of a gay African American boy growing up in a black community I have seen in any form of mainstream media.

The Vow is a modern romance that many are very familiar with. This movie is well liked by many, especially since the main character is Channing Tatum. However, this movie also displays many characteristics of a medieval romance. The characteristics include a “hero”, an “evil force”, a “woman held in high regard”, and an “epic quest”. The Vow demonstrates each of these characteristics often throughout this movie.

In “Black Skin, White Masks,” Fanon attempts to describe and analyse the experience of Black people within white controlled societies, and argues that Blacks are forced to experience serious psychological problems because of pressures to assimilate and take part in the process of colonization by a racist, white society. Fanon argues that to “fit in” and successfully integrate into higher social circles, Black people are encouraged to want to “become white,” rather than to embrace their African heritage, though this is ultimately a moot point, as argued within the text, as white society will never truly accept Black people within it as equals, but rather second-class inferior citizens. This essay aims to analyse the arguments that Fanon presents within his text, using the work of other authors to both support and criticise Fanon’s claims regarding the dehumanisation process that takes place for both Black and white individuals.

At the “Hot Wings and Hot Topics,” we watched the movie, Moonlight, which is about a Black American man named Chiron, and takes place in 1980 in Miami. The movie is about 3 parts of Chiron’s life; young adolescence, mid-teen, and young adult. The first Chapter is his childhood in which he is known as “Little.” He lived in a neighborhood full of crime with his mom who was a drug addict. Little is a little, shy boy who tends to be bullied. He has one friend his age named Chris, and a drug dealer named Juan, who sees how neglected Little is from his mom. Because of this, Juan tries to give as much care to Little, and so does his girlfriend, Teresa, and they allow Chiron to go to their house whenever he needs to get away from the bullying or his mother. The next chapter is “Chiron,” and is about his teen life. This is where we learn a little about Chiron’s sexuality, and when he begins to stick up for himself towards the end of the chapter. We see peer pressure in this chapter because if affect what Chiron, and his friends are accepted to do. In the third chapter, “Black,” we see Chiron all good up, and no longer skinny, but built like a strong man. After leaving Miami, Black is a drug dealer, is no longer weak, but is a drug dealer like Juan. He has a lot of masculinity now with his body, and what he wears. His old friend, Chris, gives him a call to come see him after years, and we are left with them hugging each other.