Assessment Of Gay African Lesbian Movies Moonlight

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Moonlight Film Evaluation
The central conflict in Moonlight revolves around how Chiron tires to discover love and the human connection. The film is a brilliantly acted meticulously crafted and vibrantly shot coming-of-age masterpiece that focuses on portraying the story of a young African American gay child, growing up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood in Miami (Lee 1). As queer as it is black, the film directed by Barry Jenkins now finds itself teetering on the edge of becoming the first LGBT film to win a significant Academy award. Audiences only need to remember how heterosexual stereotypes can become a barrier to even the most accessible queer love stories.
In the society, gay culture has been shamed for many decades. Sexual positivity now dominates same-sex relationships, and the community now values honesty and confidence in most sex scenes in films (Lee 1). Increasingly, this has been seen in television and also films that have been made with a feature that sets its sights mainly on mass appeal. Furthermore, such movies glorify heterosexual relationships in which leads to the community growing timid over LGBT films (Lee 2).
The motif of outside versus inside creates a significant dichotomy in the film. This is associated with the manner that Moonlight takes an individual’s appearance and the relationship to what a person carries on the inside as its subject. Throughout his life, Chiron remains profoundly silent in the film, and he only reveals his true self in most heartbreaking admissions (Lee 5). Such moments are highly significant for gay individuals as they have to remain silent of their true identity since they feel embarrassed of revealing their true self to others. Although Chiron is a hardened criminal on the outside, he later admits to Kevin that he never was touched by anyone since their moonlight tryst as teenagers (Lee 5).
Moonlight efficiently veers away from the literary stereotypes that its entire settings may suggest. This film intentionally rejects what the viewer may anticipate in such a deep storyline. The concept of male weakness and strength is essential to Moonlight’s exploration of the identity of Chiron and also the cultural forces that mold it. This holds true since Chiron’s journey into manhood circulates his sense of his weakness within a society that continually demands toughness from him (Cuby 10).
Juan eventually makes the realization that Chiron does not need to be coddled or forced into opening up emotionally. All that Chiron needed was space and time to express himself. At every juncture and interactions between Chiron and Juan, Juan attempts to dissuade the boy from accepting whatever fate has been handed to him by his tormentors including his drug-addicted mother Paula (Sims 4).
The pacing of the film is sequential as it is highlighted in three stages. In one of the scenes, the young Chiron asks Juan on what the word “faggot “means. Juan answers that this word is only utilized by people to make gay individuals feel insecure or negative about their identity (Thrasher 18). Chiron then inquires on whether Juan is gay and Juan assures the young boy that a person could be gay, but there are no justifications for being cal...