Diary entries forMoonlight
Moonlight
“Who is you?” That one question carries the whole movie. Three chapters, one soul — trying to answer something most of us never do.
Moonlight
eu sempre adiei o dia de assistir moonlight pq a) queria assistir sem incômodo b) queria assistir na sala, e conciliar os dois sempre foi muito difícil por aqui em casa. hoje chegou o dia, e acho que foi o filme ideal pra eu começar esse ano, tanto pela sua história quanto pela sua qualidade.
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Nem tenho muito o que dizer é apenas incrível,um dos melhores que já vi. É um filme poético em todos os sentidos.
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second act almost broke me oh my god i needed to hug chiron so bad 😭 this is such a beautiful devastating movie, it'll take me some time to watch it again. i'm so glad it won best picture over la la land.
Moonlight
Rewatched Moonlight and have to say it still hits as hard as it did the first time. From my own experience picking up on the message of human connection and love but also facing and showcasing such challenges as intersectionality. But what really hits home for myself is watching a boy grow up trying to find deep love and connection but also fit in as someone who they truly are. Showing him looking for belonging and trying to find softness in a world filled with hardness. Mahershala Ali also played he’s role to absolute perfection. I think everyone should give this a watch once bcus it to me is truly exceptional.
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Beautiful filmmaking, Moonlight is slow and patient with its storytelling, creating a believable lifetime of events. Everyone in this feels real, the acting is amazing and cinematography is fantastic. There are some points which I didn’t really like, I find it hard to believe that Littles attackers, who stomped on him whilst he was on the floor, received literally no punishment because he didn’t press charges, but then Little automatically gets arrested for attacking the bully. There is no way a child in school would have to press charges against another student for that student to get into trouble. Apart from that though it’s a great film and we’ll worth a watch.
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One of the greatest films I have ever seen, we need more black queer media!!!
Moonlight
in moonlight, black boys look blue. que filme lindo, eu tô muito emocionado. o chiron merece todo amor do mundo. i cry so much sometimes i feel like imma just turn into drops.
Moonlight
i cried a lot seeing this for the first time in a theater at college around...the beginning of when everything started going south for me mentally, i guess? i had just recently started to regress in behavioral patterns and general thoughts regarding how i felt about my own place, in every way that mattered (my own place in my friends' lives and whether they really wanted or needed me there, my place in my families' lives and if they liked hearing from me anymore, my place in school and at my job wondering if i belonged there and if i was lying to myself about being happy there) and especially regressing in an important way that mattered: my own place in life as a queer man and wondering if that had an impact on any of those and thinking, fearing, knowing that my insincere attempts at getting in the dating scene locally there weren't for lack of options, but out of belief i wasn't good enough. for them, for anyone, for any man. i didn't have the looks, the size, the heart, or the strength of the love inside it, and i acted and sounded too feminine, and i was too emotional, and they'd notice, either all of it or some of it or even just one part of it, but they'd notice nonetheless, and they'd move on quick when they did, and i'd be alone again and this time i'd be broken with it, and i couldn't let them do that to me so i tried to break myself before i could give them the chance. every fear, every worry, raced in my head at an increasingly frequent volume until i had a mental breakdown around 2 weeks before seeing this for the first time. discovering yourself is hard. coping with what you discover is hard. the time seems the hardest of all. nobody likes to talk about that because it's different for everyone, sometimes you're lucky and you're able to pick yourself up very quickly after realizing you are who you are and you're easily able to be okay with that and you can move on and be you. and there won't be any doubts or regressions or conflicts with that. obviously most others aren't that lucky. but the worst is the loneliness. there's no way to prepare for that. especially if you're in an unfriendly or unfamiliar environment. if you're lucky, you know other queers who are close by. if you're lucky, they even like you back. at college, amidst all my worries was more worrying, worrying about how lonely i felt inside and it matching how it felt on the outside. my best friends cities away at best, and they weren't the type that answered the phone either. (found that out the hard way during my breakdown.) i was lucky to befriend two other queers but because they were women i still kept my guard up/emotions bottled in because being a non-masculine queer man has its own complex fears and thoughts behind it (for me specifically if not also in general) that i didn't know if they'd understand, even if i felt i weren't bothering them or wasting their time by bringing it up in the first place. a lot of times i wonder how different that fall could have been. if i'd had one less worry. if one friend answered their phone. if i'd more seriously pursued the dating scene there. if i had opened up to the few friendly faces that could have understood that i was lucky enough to meet. familiar stuff in the film (including chiron's isolation due to how he identified, and how at least one family member was clearly unsupportive by treating others like him as a joke) helped me cry a lot that first viewing that year. some of that stuff still being present in different capacities/volumes helped me cry a lot rewatching this tonight. it's rare we get a film this honest and this beautiful. with call me by your name or blue is the warmest color or even weekend, there's moments (a few or a lot, but always merely moments) that linger and that you come back to. and even as much as love simon meant, and as great as i think all of these were, it still only had moments i came back to. moonlight is the one experience we got that i've always thought about in its entirety. how much it means to me has never left my soul since that theater screening at college. i don't think i'll ever forget how much it's meant to me either.
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The tension in the Restaurant 🤯
