During the greater part of his nearly two-hour duration, "Moonlight", Barry Jenkins, is a story of unhappiness, chewed and swallowed passively, in loneliness and resignation. the And it is a misfortune that goes beyond color of the skin of the main character in the film, Chiron (it is black), family situation (living alone with the mother, addicted to "crack" and decompensated emotional, in a poor area and dangerous Miami), social condition (the subclass than in the USA survives of the benefits of the State and whose members are little or no hopes to have progress in the scale of society) or sexual orientation (confused as to his possible homosexuality), to be generally empathetic, understood, identified.
[See the "trailer" of "Moonlight"]
Even taking into account the reality that has roots and that depicts, "Moonlight" is a work of broad scope and significance of human, and can not be terminated in the corner of the film "gay" or "ghetto" in the film "ethnic minorities". the Based on "In the Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue", a dramatic work of a playwright and actor Tarell Alvin McCraney, "Moonlight" has already won a Golden Globe award (Best Dramatic Film) and is nominated for eight Oscars, and is a production "indie", which is associated with Plan B’s Brad Pitt. Is divided into three parts, corresponding to other so many "acts" of the life of the protagonist, who seems to have born to suffer continuous abuse of law and three others at the hands of his fellowman, whether he arrived or distant, and is played by three different actors.
(See the interview with the director Barry Jenkins]
In the first part, we witness the childhood of Chiron, nicknamed Little (Alex Hibbert) to be very small. Now repelled now cherished by the mother on drugs (go with him Harris), and persecuted by schoolmates, Little finds a father substitute in Juan (Mahershala Ali, "House of Cards, the "dealer" of the neighbourhood, and shelter and affection in the house of the girlfriend of this, Teresa (singer Janelle Monáe). In the second part, Little is now Black (Ashton Sanders), name, powered by his only friend, Kevin (Jharrel Jerome), in high school. He continues to live with the mother, the same life disgraced and lost to Juan (it is assumed that the victim of a violent death), to take refuge in the house of Teresa and the victim of the brute, who one day force Kevin, with whom he had had a brief and clumsy homosexual experience, to be violent to him. It is too much for Black, who explodes and responds in the same currency, and will be arrested.
[See the interview with Trevante Rhodes and André Holland]
Finally, reencontramo-in with Black as an adult, using and finally the baptismal name, Chiron ( Trevante Rhodes). Served his sentence, moved to Atlanta, have the mother hospitalized in a clinic for drug addicts and smuggle the drug as Juan, the image of which seems to have molded to the smallest detail, displaying an armor of muscles against the world, and is more lonely than ever. the A phone call unexpected takes you again to Miami, to review Kevin’s (André Holland), who was also arrested, but has a son to take care of, want to lead a life straight and is chef in a neighbourhood restaurant. They eat and drink together, talk about the past and the present, and the hard carapace of Chiron ends up snapping. Perhaps the unhappiness thick, militant and pervasive in your life can diminish, and the hope of something better emerging in the horizon. Maybe.
[See the interview with, to go with him Harris]
Such as don’t fall into the armadillo of the final perfect and reconfortantemente resolved, Barry Jenkins also does not put his hand to the naturalism abjeccionista or resorts to melodrama of despair torn to tell this rough journey of a man coming from a place in the world and alienated from a family identity, emotional, social, sexual. "Moonlight" is a film of realism restrained, sometimes lyrical and sensual, elliptical in the manifestation of emotions and so collected from the point of view dramatic as the protagonist is in his existence. Jenkins can still blur the origins of theatrical history and escape the rigidity of formal, in good part thanks to a camera peripatetic, restless, fluid, compensates visually for the withdrawal, passivity and ensimesmamento Little/Black/Chiron.
it Would be nice, on the path to success of "Moonlight", that someone got the first film of the director, "Medicine for Melancholy" (2008), very well referenced, and unique in Portugal. And hopefully Berry Jenkins is no longer a talent of the genuine strain of "indie" that is going to impair, dilute, and delete projects "mainstream".
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