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Post by Sexual Chocolate on Oct 30, 2016 22:09:02 GMT -5
Saw this today. The first movie I've paid to see in a long time, and if it doesn't get an oscar nomination, I will riot.
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Post by Sexual Chocolate on Oct 30, 2016 22:10:51 GMT -5
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Post by dark sister on Nov 2, 2016 12:24:32 GMT -5
Sexual Chocolate I'm so jealous, I've been dying to see this since it hit TIFF. I love awards season, I think this is likely to be there.
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Post by Sexual Chocolate on Nov 2, 2016 12:31:44 GMT -5
Sexual Chocolate I'm so jealous, I've been dying to see this since it hit TIFF. I love awards season, I think this is likely to be there. It truly is a beautiful film. The ending was a little abrupt for my liking, but maybe I feel that way because I didn't want it to end. It taught me a lot about the ideal of masculinity and how detrimental it can be for all men, not just black and gay. I hope you get to see it soon.
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Post by dark sister on Nov 2, 2016 13:11:23 GMT -5
Sexual Chocolate I'm so jealous, I've been dying to see this since it hit TIFF. I love awards season, I think this is likely to be there. It truly is a beautiful film. The ending was a little abrupt for my liking, but maybe I feel that way because I didn't want it to end. It taught me a lot about the ideal of masculinity and how detrimental it can be for all men, not just black and gay. I hope you get to see it soon. I think Moonlight is going to be a big topic of discussion, especially with how #OscarsSoWhite took off last year. Everyone talked about The Birth of a Nation all year, but that movie ended up being massively overhyped. One like this looks amazing.
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Post by Ripley on Nov 2, 2016 13:41:23 GMT -5
I look forward to seeing Moonlight myself-supposed to be groundbreaking in many ways and refreshing.
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Post by dark sister on Nov 19, 2016 8:55:17 GMT -5
This movie was amazing, and Sexual Chocolate I completely see why you didn't want the ending to end there. I wanted more.
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Post by Ripley on Nov 19, 2016 9:26:25 GMT -5
From Slate- "When a young black man appears on screen in an American movie, there is a limited range of things his character can generally be expected to do. He can deal drugs or get addicted to drugs. He can get in fights, run from cops, get arrested, go to jail. If he’s lucky, he might get to be a cop (though often his luck runs out, and his white partner is spurred to acts of heroism by his buddy’s untimely death) or get out of jail (only to face the temptation of life back on the streets). Maybe he gets to fall in love with a good woman, but more often, he keeps that good woman down. The main character in Barry Jenkins’ tender, lyrical, and stunning Moonlight—who’s known by a different name and played by a different actor in each of the film’s three distinct chapters—does engage in a few of the activities described above. But he also does things we almost never get to see a black male do on screen. He wrestles with the societal expectation that he project strength, invulnerability, and hypermasculine cool, even when he feels anything but strong or cool on the inside. In the transcendent nighttime scene that gives the film its title, he kisses another young black man on a beach. Most surprisingly of all, he cries. Not just once, in a single pent-up release of long-suppressed manly emotions, but several times, alone and in the company of others: sometimes from loneliness and rage, sometimes from relief and gratitude. Moonlight is one of those movies that showers its audience with blessings: raw yet accomplished performances from a uniformly fine cast, casually lyrical camerawork, and a frankly romantic soundtrack that runs the gamut from ’70s Jamaican pop to a Mexican folk song crooned by the Brazilian Caetano Veloso. But the film’s greatest gift may be that flood of cleansing tears—which, by the time this spare but affecting film was over, I was also shedding in copious volume.... ...Moonlight’s most noteworthy achievement, in the age of both Black Lives Matter and the backlash against identity politics, is that Jenkins mounts no soapboxes and brandishes no manifestos in his attempt to illuminate the inner life of this troubled boy turned teenager turned man. Instead he shows us the love that other characters feel for Chiron, made tangible by the generous performances of co-stars Harris, Ali, Monáe, and Holland. Chiron’s search for sexual and personal identity matters because he himself does—if not to the often cruel educational, social, and legal systems that surround him, then at least to that small group of people who love him. By the time Moonlight reaches its ravishing conclusion, that group includes us, too.... link
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Post by Sexual Chocolate on Nov 19, 2016 14:07:03 GMT -5
This movie was amazing, and Sexual Chocolate I completely see why you didn't want the ending to end there. I wanted more. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I just wanted to hug all three versions of Black because he deserved all the love and protection in the world. When he cracked the bully over the head with the chair I may or may not have cheered out loud.
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Post by dark sister on Nov 19, 2016 16:03:32 GMT -5
This movie was amazing, and Sexual Chocolate I completely see why you didn't want the ending to end there. I wanted more. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I just wanted to hug all three versions of Black because he deserved all the love and protection in the world. When he cracked the bully over the head with the chair I may or may not have cheered out loud. I wanted Juan and Teresa to adopt him.
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Post by Sexual Chocolate on Nov 19, 2016 17:48:57 GMT -5
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I just wanted to hug all three versions of Black because he deserved all the love and protection in the world. When he cracked the bully over the head with the chair I may or may not have cheered out loud. I wanted Juan and Teresa to adopt him. So did I. It took me a minute to realize Juan had died. He died, right? I think all three actors who played Chiron were fabulous, but I don't know if any had enough time on screen to get an actor nod.
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Post by dark sister on Nov 19, 2016 22:45:13 GMT -5
I wanted Juan and Teresa to adopt him. So did I. It took me a minute to realize Juan had died. He died, right? I think all three actors who played Chiron were fabulous, but I don't know if any had enough time on screen to get an actor nod. Yeah, Chiron's mother says "I haven't seen her since the funeral" when he talks about Teresa. I'm not sure either, they should definitely push them in the supporting actor category though. Teenage Chiron was my favorite, but adult Black had amazing moments too.
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Post by Sexual Chocolate on Nov 20, 2016 0:48:33 GMT -5
dark sister teenage Chiron was my favorite, too. The scene where he's walking down the school's hallway towards the classroom with the bully was perfectly acted. You could see him talk himself into it, almost change his mind, and then decide he'd rather face the consequences than be bullied. But I also have to hand it to adult Chiron (Black) who shocked me when he first appeared on screen. Those little vulnerable boy versions of him were gone, or so I thought, but came back in full force when he met with his mother, and then reconnected with Kevin. Little Chiron was there the whole time. After your screening did they show a Q&A with the cast and director/writer?
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Post by dark sister on Nov 20, 2016 9:28:54 GMT -5
dark sister teenage Chiron was my favorite, too. The scene where he's walking down the school's hallway towards the classroom with the bully was perfectly acted. You could see him talk himself into it, almost change his mind, and then decide he'd rather face the consequences than be bullied. But I also have to hand it to adult Chiron (Black) who shocked me when he first appeared on screen. Those little vulnerable boy versions of him were gone, or so I thought, but came back in full force when he met with his mother, and then reconnected with Kevin. Little Chiron was there the whole time. After your screening did they show a Q&A with the cast and director/writer? No, I didn't see it at a festival or anything. It expanded into a wide release this weekend and one of my theaters in town got it. I think my favorite moment is when Black is talking to Kevin on the phone as an adult, and he has that moment where it looks like he's going to burst into tears, then he sucks it back up and keeps his "tough" image. That was just..wow.
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Post by Sexual Chocolate on Nov 20, 2016 16:05:30 GMT -5
Wow is right. I really need to see this again. I didn't see it at a festival either. The videotaped Q&A was tagged on at the end of film in my theater. If I can find it, I'll post it.
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