Sociology: Moonlight (2016)

Sociology: Moonlight (2016)

1. How does the film demonstrate that race (as constructed and perceived) truly shapes life chances?

Racial blackness is represented in the film by black and blue colours. Both black and blue served as both visual and emotional of performed, archetypal weakness and hardness. Characters struggled to place themselves in some ways of black and blue embody the dichotomy of ‘soft’ and hard thought the film. The performance of hardness and toughness is opted by both Chiron and Juan, which represented by their gangster lifestyles. This takes shape not only in the colour of their skin but also in their dress, especially that in black’s case. Black and gold shade all things he owns.

In contrast, the film’s expression of softness and vulnerability in men like Chiron seems to be served by blue. During the night when a woman told Juan that ‘in the moonlight, black boys look blue’ and award him ‘blue’ as a nickname, they describe and discussed literally of blue during that night. The nickname that was given to Juan was rejected. This means it is implying that it felt untrue to his appearance as a grown man and recall little of the primacy of blackness, saying that the first people on earth were black people. The black body is the sensitivity and vulnerability as seems to be embodied by blue as from Moonlight to the ocean, especially that body of Chiron. The shirt of Terrel or the black car represents that hardness. The vulnerability is seeming to be left by the characters as Chiron ages. At the beginning of the film, the vulnerability is expressed in blue and Miami teal dominate. Blackness represented the hardness during this time, but it feels like it is somehow untrue to the Little we watched the film’s begging. At home, Kevin changed the blue shirt that of wave and made Chiron hear the sound of it.

2. Why might it be said that these characters/actors represent authentically

portrayals and not just tropes?

Authenticity is something that is always playing with it. Moonlight is not a realist movie by any stretch of the imagination, particularly visually. I don’t think the film is untrue.it provides images that are a delicate balance, which allows a viewer to feel like he/she is watching a real experience. Moonlight is presented in a way that it provides a broader lens to look through. Moonlight film has been set in three acts, following the life of Chiron and opens with a drug deal using some familiar tropes of an archetypical dealer named Joan. The film allows us as the audience to make choices later in the movie, so when we don’t set up our language at the start, we could feel like not as organic. The authentic sensibility that supports Moonlight was created when everything was in a real location; that is, the setting of Moonlight was in Miami.

3. How does the film portray intersectionality? What is the nature of the multiple lines of marginalization? How are these male characters representative of

some of the most vulnerable people in American society?

In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, is directed by Barry Jenkins. Thought the stages of life which were from Little to Chiron to Black. The main characters explore sexuality and masculinity. Drug-addicted mother and broke families are dealt with by the Chiron. The character suffers from bullying and discrimination. His friends in the neighbours bullied Chiron during ‘Little,’ this was because he lacked macho and found a safer place, and when he met Juan, he filled with love. Chiron was supported by a drug seller and his girlfriend, Terresa. When Chiron was in middle school, he could not come out of school when he first tasted the lips of his childhood best friend, Kelvin and gave him a blow job. At the ‘Black’ stage, the character was revealed that he become more masculine and independent, more fearless to face an authentic self. The impression of diversity and intersectionality is portrayed in the movie.

Masculinity is being focused and sexism. For example, Chiron’s bully responds to Chiron when they were in science class when the science teacher asks if he needs anything, saying ‘he needs a tampon.’ Gay men are seen as more famine as they are related to sexism by homophobia. There is still so much blatant and underlying homophobia in society, even though the LGBTQ + community is becoming more acceptable.

4. The New Yorker magazine says Moonlight “paves the way for a new kind of American cinema –serious but not ideological, and reflective of the diversity

that has always gone into the making of that complicated character otherwise

known as America.” What does this statement mean to you?

In my view, I think Moonlight is a great film and does an outstanding job of telling Chiron’s story. The audience believes in sociology because the movie is earnest. The video has reflected a lot of diversity in the whole set from three parts of the Chiron’s journey.

5. What aspects of the movie could you relate to? What aspects did you find

difficult to relate to? What is unique about Moonlight? What is the sociological

message of this movie to you?

Cyclical identity is the aspect that I could relate to. Chiron’s struggled to grow comfortable in his skin, and this makes him come up with a character that echoes his surrogate father figure, Juan. The aspect of guilt and redemption is hard to relate because it is difficult to accept that Chiron goes from an innocent victim to a hardened gangster. What I found unique about the movie is the fact that it made mysterious, open-ended and beautifully shot. The theme of vulnerability is portrayed all over the film; this means a lot to me.