Moonlight: Crash Course Film Criticism #13
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Comments and reviews: 10
ThatsHowLoveMoves
I understood everything about 'Moonlight', and yet the movie didn't excite me as much as I wanted it to be. I wanted to LIKE it, but I just found it boring. And now that I see this video, i can't help but be frustrated we don't get to see what happened to Juan or how Chiron got into prison. I feel there were things missing that could've helped - at least me anyway - connect to the film on an emotional level. I think what people liked about this movie is that they're so used to seeing and perceiving Black stereotypes that the image of Black boys being vulnerable is completely foreign. If seeing Black people as human and affectionate is this groundbreaking then I can't help but wonder how we were seen before this film. Glad it won an Oscar. I just wish it was worth the hype as far as story. I mean, hitting the bully with the chair got my attention and maybe the fight in the schoolyard too, but that was about it. Maybe I missed something else. I feel like I saw nothing new in this film, unfortunately.
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I understood everything about 'Moonlight', and yet the movie didn't excite me as much as I wanted it to be. I wanted to LIKE it, but I just found it boring. And now that I see this video, i can't help but be frustrated we don't get to see what happened to Juan or how Chiron got into prison. I feel there were things missing that could've helped - at least me anyway - connect to the film on an emotional level. I think what people liked about this movie is that they're so used to seeing and perceiving Black stereotypes that the image of Black boys being vulnerable is completely foreign. If seeing Black people as human and affectionate is this groundbreaking then I can't help but wonder how we were seen before this film. Glad it won an Oscar. I just wish it was worth the hype as far as story. I mean, hitting the bully with the chair got my attention and maybe the fight in the schoolyard too, but that was about it. Maybe I missed something else. I feel like I saw nothing new in this film, unfortunately.
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Shifty
I think the ice and cold was significant as after him first using the ice pack in the office he first began to lean into his more closed and traditionally masculine behavior. And you notice that he goes and sticks his head back in the fridge in a scene in his 20-s. I think the cold is representative of him closing up and hardening while the beach represents the opposite for him as it-s at the beach where he opens up and makes himself more vulnerable. I love how this movie simply for the amount of symbolism and metaphors and whatnot to pick apart. I can-t personally relate to any of main topic the movie touches on as I-m straight and Native American, but i still found it to be incredibly compelling as a piece of art and even made me think more about theses things as it presents it in a not obnoxious way. It doesn-t feel like it-s just agenda-pushing propaganda as it just shows you all this stuff and lets you use your own mind to come to your own conclusions and judgements. Excellent movie.
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I think the ice and cold was significant as after him first using the ice pack in the office he first began to lean into his more closed and traditionally masculine behavior. And you notice that he goes and sticks his head back in the fridge in a scene in his 20-s. I think the cold is representative of him closing up and hardening while the beach represents the opposite for him as it-s at the beach where he opens up and makes himself more vulnerable. I love how this movie simply for the amount of symbolism and metaphors and whatnot to pick apart. I can-t personally relate to any of main topic the movie touches on as I-m straight and Native American, but i still found it to be incredibly compelling as a piece of art and even made me think more about theses things as it presents it in a not obnoxious way. It doesn-t feel like it-s just agenda-pushing propaganda as it just shows you all this stuff and lets you use your own mind to come to your own conclusions and judgements. Excellent movie.
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Upside
This movie was sooo bad and forced. one of the two good actor dies in the start and they don-t even show it -- the other is poorly casted as a crackhead and she was horrible at. The movie was a really great idea but poorly executed. The acting was so cringey at times it made me uncomfortable.
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This movie was sooo bad and forced. one of the two good actor dies in the start and they don-t even show it -- the other is poorly casted as a crackhead and she was horrible at. The movie was a really great idea but poorly executed. The acting was so cringey at times it made me uncomfortable.
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Thomas
I feel for the black community. Especially young black boys and men. Society won't let them be vulnerable and their true selves shine. Many put up a front of strength when they don't have a family or society who gives them love and respect for being human and who they are.
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I feel for the black community. Especially young black boys and men. Society won't let them be vulnerable and their true selves shine. Many put up a front of strength when they don't have a family or society who gives them love and respect for being human and who they are.
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MAthU
Moonlight was a film I had not understood, but after watching this video I have now understood way more about it. Just the little hidden things and techniques Barry Jenkins puts into Moonlight is astonishing and truly makes this film a masterpiece
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Moonlight was a film I had not understood, but after watching this video I have now understood way more about it. Just the little hidden things and techniques Barry Jenkins puts into Moonlight is astonishing and truly makes this film a masterpiece
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soulsearch1234
I hear people calling this a -gay- movie but I didn't even notice that. I'm from the hood and it felt like I was seeing deep into my soul. Inner city life for real. A boy growing up in the hood, I felt it hard.
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I hear people calling this a -gay- movie but I didn't even notice that. I'm from the hood and it felt like I was seeing deep into my soul. Inner city life for real. A boy growing up in the hood, I felt it hard.
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Mitjell
In that scene when he's getting lectured after being beaten up you can almost pin-point the very instant he decides to kill his potential for vulnerability. Powerful stuff.
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In that scene when he's getting lectured after being beaten up you can almost pin-point the very instant he decides to kill his potential for vulnerability. Powerful stuff.
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Harlie
I dnt knw. This movie did nothing for me. It's just another movie about someone being scared to be themselves. Instead they hide it.
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I dnt knw. This movie did nothing for me. It's just another movie about someone being scared to be themselves. Instead they hide it.
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Gothicc
this film reflect my life, i wish to escape my society before it destroys me too. being black in america is a curse when alone
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this film reflect my life, i wish to escape my society before it destroys me too. being black in america is a curse when alone
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seven
This movie is perfect and beautiful. I cried so much for little, Alex Hibbert was just as amazing as the adults on screen
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This movie is perfect and beautiful. I cried so much for little, Alex Hibbert was just as amazing as the adults on screen
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