Moonlight (I) (2016)
6/10
Does not Justify the Hype
23 February 2017
"Moonlight" is a dramatic and very well acted film about three stages in the life of a black character since he was a bullied boy and teenager in Miami until his adulthood in Atlanta. The first part ("Little") is heartbreaking, with the boy Chiron completely lost between the rejection of his crack addicted mother and the love of his new friends, a drug dealer and his girlfriend. The second part ("Chiron") is inferior but also attractive when Chiron is an adolescent and the problems and doubts he has to face in this difficult phase of life practically alone. Unfortunately, the third part ("Black"} is awful; Chiron has become a strong man (the biotypes totally different from his childhood and adolescence), drug dealer and gay.

It is impressive how professional cinema critics love films where the characters are gays (remember "Brokeback Mountain", one of the most notorious) and the power they have to influence worldwide viewers with their opinions. A few people dare to say that the King isn't wearing anything at all, like in the "The Emperor's New Clothes". My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Moonlight: Sob a Luz do Luar" ("Moonlight: Under the Moonlight")
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