Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Moonlight is the cinematic encapsulation of the Queer theory adage "both/and". The screenplay crafts characters who reveal the malignant illusion in the ragged archetypes of Black masculinity as violent and destined for destruction: Kevin the champion playground fighter forced to turn his fists on his lover and best friend in an attempt to protect them both from further harm; Chiron, the beaten-down boy who sometimes cries so much he feels as if his whole body will turn to water and…