Moonlight Reflection

I give this movie a six out of five-star rating. How it managed to keep me on the edge of my seat the entire time is beyond me; I am still in disbelief that I was fully engaged for the entire two hours and twenty-six minutes. Although I had heard many great things about the novel, the film exceeded all of my expectations. The Natural teaches many valuable lessons about perseverance, determination, commitment, karma, relationships, and staying young at heart.

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

In Moonlight (2016), the PROTAGONIST is a black boy called Chiron Harris or Little, who is thin and small. His PROBLEM in the first 10 minutes is that he is chased by three boys, who try to bully him. His WEAKNESS is that he is always bullied by others, but he is quiet and shy that he is not being willing to talk to strangers or speak out. Hence, he is a rebellious teenager. This causes him to display BAD BEHAVIOR by not returning to his home like he supposed to, rather he spends the night with Juan and his girlfriend Teresa. He hates his mother because she doesn’t care about him.

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

Through the depiction of Chiron and his struggle in the film Moonlight Jenkins shows that the system one lives in and the internal self results in domination against oneself. Chiron the protagonist of the film is considered weak and fragile in comparison to his classmates and the people in his community and thus Chiron is targeted by his peers and even within his own household. In Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks it is argued that the black man plays a part in their own domination by constantly viewing themselves as less than the white men.

The director of this film clearly presents an idea of masculinity and how it especially is pertinent in context to the african american men in the film. Growing up in his early days, Chiron does not have a male or fatherly figure in his life. The director shows that Juan acts as a stand in for Chiron’s father-like figure while protecting him from the threats of bullies and his mother. Juan could represent a positive male presence since he genuinely

His mentors, Juan and Theresa, share what seems to be a more traditional family dynamic than Chiron is accustomed to. Theresa cooks and cleans, while Juan is the breadwinner, through his drug business. Therefore, Theresa takes on a traditional female role and Juan assumes the traditional patriarchal role in the household. Consequently, role flexibility is represented by Chiron’s single mother, who works as well as cooks and cleans, pushing the boundary of traditional gender roles due to the absences of a male figure in the household. This is signified when Juan drops Chiron off at home and his mother is in her CAN uniform.

William Shakespeare once said, “Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”. In the same way, people who go through life-changing events will either be overthrown by the world’s sin, or they will overcome it like a militia conquering another country. For example, in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he states, “But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long…” (68). Henceforth, throughout the book Night, the main character, Elie, is changed drastically by his near-death experiences in Auschwitz.

Barry Jenkins’ award winning film Moonlight is based on the coming of age play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney. This story follows Chiron Black in three different phases of his life. This film highlights many of the things that plague black boys questioning their identity, but does so in a way that captures the innocence and vulnerability of the process. At first glance, one may think Moonlight is just another stereotypical coming of age story – a young black boy with a drug addicted mother and no father, living in a neighborhood riddled with drug addiction, who is confused about who he is. It does play into those stereotypes, but with good reason. Those tropes highlight the contrasts between the life he is ‘supposed’ to live, and who he really is (even if he doesn’t realize it).

Masculinity is presented throughout this film in a manner that forces Chiron to become isolated from his peers. As it is shown in opening of the “i. Little” chapter, he is instantly being ridiculed and severely bullied for being weaker than the rest of the boys in his class. It is stated in “Machismo and Hollywood’s Working Class” that, “Images of men are neither domesticated nor ‘sensitized.” This statement forms a parallel

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.

The film is inspired by the play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue” by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Jenkins’s film is a reflection on growing up, and the way society forces people to adhere to what is considered ‘normal’. Moonlight is designed to emotionally shatter the viewer to their foundation, even if their life shares very little to no similarities to Chiron’s. This is not a motion picture intended to focus on one particular problem about race or sexuality; It is intended to appeal to the humanity in the viewer.

Imagine if you go outside your front door and you look left. There are two people dealing cocaine. You look right and there is someone being robbed with a gun. The movie Moonlight tells a story about a kid named Chiron who was different from everyone else, because he is different he got picked on and got taken advantage by everyone else including his mother, Paula. When Chiron had an opportunity to start all over he pretended to be someone he wasn’t so he could survive and be respected by others. The film shows Chiron in the parts of his life, when he was a kid the others called him Little, throughout his teenage years he was called Chiron, and as an adult he was Black. The movie took place in Miami, Florida in the “hood” around the 1980’s

Set in the predominantly African-American Liberty City neighbourhood of Miami, Moonlight unfolds in structure as numerous key turning points in the life of a boy named Chiron. Meek in personality and small in stature, the rudderless nine-year-old Chiron (Alex Hibbert) we meet is ostracised and physically bullied frequently by his classmates. Only one friend named Kevin (Jaden Piner) extends some form of friendship to the boy his

What you know and believe in can change at any moment. We see a first hand account of this in the book Night. Everyday we see the jews face the horrors of the Buna work camp, as a result of this we see most people change their ethics. As fight or flight instincts kick in, people abandon their family and friends to survive. Elie fights an internal battle to keep his father alive and strong during these tragedies. As others around him give in to the cruel punishment, Elie himself wants to drift towards the darkness. When people are faced with such cruel punishment everyone changes to some extent. For some the change is instant but for most the process of breaking their will is extensive.