When Chiron smashes a chair over the bully in front of his high school class, he's taken away by the police and placed in a juvenile detention center. There's more drama when Kevin participates in a hazing ritual, betraying Chiron by slugging him a number of times in the face, at the behest of the usual suspects of high school bullies. The story becomes more interesting when Chiron hooks up with his old childhood friend, Kevin, who leads him to a homosexual encounter on the beach. Jenkins isn't afraid to chronicle additional problems in the African-American community, especially the scourge of bullying. The withdrawn child is now a withdrawn teenager who is still coping with his crackhead of a mother and is taunted by other teens who regard him as not only passive but possibly homosexual. Just at the right moment, Jenkins introduces Chiron as a teenager in the second segment. Despite the lugubrious pacing, Moonlight chronicles the tragedy of how drugs can play such a ruinous part in the lives of African-American men and women, residing in the inner city. Unfortunately, Juan plays no part in the rest of the film and we eventually learn in the last segment that he's no longer alive. Juan eventually forms a relationship with Little, acting as a mentor, despite hostility from the boy's mother. Little is mute until he opens up the next morning and tells the couple where he lives.
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A crack dealer named Juan discovers Little inside an abandoned motel and after learning he's been the victim of bullies, he brings him to the home of his girlfriend, Theresa. When we first meet Little, he's run away from home, alienated from his crack-addicted, abusive mother, Paula.
Moonlight is divided into three segments, first focusing on a young African-American boy named Chiron (whose nickname is "Little" in the first segment). It has an amazing score of "99" on Metacritic, with the lowest score being "63." When I saw this score my immediate reaction was that this film is no "99." It's a lot closer to that "63," a score attributed to a review put out by Slant Magazine.
Moonlight represents the end product of a collaboration between Barry Jenkins who wrote the screenplay based on a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney.
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