In astrology, Chiron is known as the "wounded healer" and it's considered to represent our deepest struggles and spiritual wounds. Chiron represents our ability to transform our core wounds and use them to help others, while also turning our misery into healing and growth. Chiron helps us overcome the challenges we face. In order to heal Chiron, you need to look into your past and getting to know your inner child may help you feel happy and comfortable with your identity. By sending unconditional love to your past self, you build emotional strength that may help you come to terms with negative memories from your past. Based on an unpublished play, "In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue" by Tarell Alvin McCarney, the film portrays a young Black …show more content…
In fact, these changing groups provide an interesting lesson in American historical development." However, Moonlight combats this preconceived notion mentioned in Kimmel's article, that homosexuality as something that emasculates men. Unlike the majority of many films which feature intimate relationships between Black men, Kevin surprisingly does not tell Chiron that he must keep their relationship a secret. Despite the fact that Kevin is bisexual, he does not fall into the stereotypical caricature of a deceptive Black man on the “down low.” The approach that the writers and directors chose for the movie is rare because it normalizes Black males who happen to be queer. Especially considering the socio-political conversations that were happening with the black body around the time. Kevin breaks some stereotypes about men, but he also confirms some of the same. According to Kimmel, masculinity develops into a defense against the threat of humiliation in the eyes of other men since "what men need is men’s approval” …show more content…
However, Jenkins simultaneously has this delicacy when writing about Miami and the community in the hood of the movie. Jenkins and Chiron have various similarities, which perhaps is the reason why the relationships between the characters are so authentic and pure. The director's personal experiences embedded in the film presents the suggestion that even though the characters like Juan, who's a drug dealer and does bad stuff, they still have a heart. Juan and other people in the hood still protect each other and they still have empathy, in spite of not being displayed in the cinema. Frequently, the media paints this interpretation as the hood is unpleasant and violent. Even if there is some truth to this narrative, it's one-sided. That's why Moonlight is so significant, it's a well-rounded film that humanizes the black community. Jenkins says in an interview with Mandalit Barco on NPR, "It's something very, very common in the black community." And I hadn't really seen it sort of done in a movie or a TV show, carrying the warmth that I think it carries for the characters in this film" (Barco
similar. The movie Moonlight, based on the play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue” by Tarell Alvin McCraney, shows a unique view on life from the perspective of a young black man that is growing up gay in Miami, Florida. With this movie being so realistic, it lets people see what it is really like to grow up with this experience. The movie Moonlight is a realistic film showing what it is like to grow up having a druggie parent, not having a parental figure, and being gay in a black community. In the
Moonlight is a motion picture with a tender, heartbreaking story of a young man's struggle to find himself, told across three chapters in his life as he experiences ecstasy, pain, and the beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality and dealing with his more difficult past. Moonlight describes a touching way of those moments, people and unknown forces that shape our lives and make us the way we are. A major theme of Moonlight is the black male identity and its interactions with
“Who is you, Chiron?” This question sets the stage for the entire movie. We follow a young boy named Chiron through adolescence to adulthood within 110 minutes of film. We watch him progress through life while he tries to erase or bury his old younger self. We first meet Chiron, also known as little, while he is running from a group of boys from his school trying to beat him up. He runs into a drug hole and is met by a man named Juan who “fosters” Chiron and soon becomes his father figure. As we
Moonlight is that rare movie that succeeds in almost every way possible for a film of its kind. It’s the story of how to save a child by teaching him self-acceptance. This film is really not a love story in the traditional sense, it is a self-love story. The very core of this story is about a boy we all knew, but didn’t uplift and support like we should have. Moonlight told one of the most compelling, consistent and specific stories you will ever witness, which is fairly hard for a film about people
Even before the moment we are born, models of gender and sexual expression are pressed into us. The colors "pink" and "blue" identify what gender a newborn baby will be, placing these two genders into a type of "box" or "category". The idea that young girls should stay inside to play will dolls and young boys should go outside to be adventurous, also puts these two genders under limitations. Society places these gender roles upon us, in hopes of us acting a particular way to display our gender in
The film Moonlight by Berry Jenkins is considered a “coming-of-age” film with universal themes, but one of the main themes in the film is learning about the struggle to find one’s identity in a hyper-masculine and ultimately homophobic culture. There are two scenes that fit in to this theme. One occurs during the first section of the film, entitled “Little,” and the second occurs in the final section of the film, entitled “Chiron,” although this film follows the same character each section has its