Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama. The film is based off a main character whose name is Chiron and is going through life trying to figure out what it means to be a man, a “Black” man at that. The film breaks down three stages of Chiron life, his youth, adolescences, and his early adulthood. In his early youth Chiron lived in Liberty City, Miami he struggles with living in a poor household with his mother Paula on drugs and no Father present in the home. He end up getting the nickname “Little” probably because he was a little bony fellow. A drug dealer named Juan ends up allowing Chiron to spend the night with him one night with him and his girlfriend. He had to feel some type sympathy for the little dude and showed him a glimpse
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Little is continuously getting bullied in school by a guy named Terrel, Terrel and his crew is always messing with Chiron and belittling him. One night Kevin, Chiron’s friend ends up meeting Chiron at the beach and they smoked a blunt and ends up kissing and Kevin started masturbating Chiron. After this night the next morning Terrel goes back to school and have Kevin and everyone beat up on Chiron. Chiron didn’t want to snitch to the higher ups because he felt like nothing would be solved so he took matters into his own hand and came back the next day and popped Terrel the bully in the head with a chair damn near knocking him out damaging his head, and little Chiron gets arrested for his actions. In his adult years he begins selling drugs in Miami and going by a new nickname Black. He goes and visit his mom occasionally, and ends up going back to Miami to visit Kevin his childhood friend and they end up embracing one another again after Black informs him that he hasn’t had any sexual interactions with anyone since that time on the beach when they were …show more content…
For instance when he was young he went by the name little, and just being called little everyday can influence a person’s mentality towards life. It can cause you to have little self-confidence, little work ethics, little ability to express and show love, and when a person feels little they sometimes feel inferior in the world. Sometimes people feel like they have to live up to their nickname, and when he got older he start going by Black, he had turned to the typical Black African American man in the U.S and could have possibly even developed a mentality where he was uncomfortable in his Black skin. When it comes to what makes Chiron struggle in developing a masculine identity you can choose from a couple things. The mere fact that his biological father isn’t in the house to show him how to be a man. The fact that he has a little body frame can make a guy feel weak and powerless, and the most likely reason to his masculinity issues is the fact that he likes males. In today’s world/society we hold the man to be a bread winner, head of the household, the dominant species, and for Chiron to be attracted to males and kissing and touching on dudes he could feel like he is relinquishing his guy powers. I think he succeeds in developing a masculine identity with the confrontation with his bully Terrel, how he didn’t tell the authorities, instead he faced his problems and stood up like a
Little is continuously getting bullied in school by a guy named Terrel, Terrel and his crew is always messing with Chiron and belittling him. One night Kevin, Chiron’s friend ends up meeting Chiron at the beach and they smoked a blunt and ends up kissing and Kevin started masturbating Chiron. After this night the next morning Terrel goes back to school and have Kevin and everyone beat up on Chiron. Chiron didn’t want to snitch to the higher ups because he felt like nothing would be solved so he took matters into his own hand and came back the next day and popped Terrel the bully in the head with a chair damn near knocking him out damaging his head, and little Chiron gets arrested for his actions. In his adult years he begins selling drugs in Miami and going by a new nickname Black. He goes and visit his mom occasionally, and ends up going back to Miami to visit Kevin his childhood friend and they end up embracing one another again after Black informs him that he hasn’t had any sexual interactions with anyone since that time on the beach when they were …show more content…
For instance when he was young he went by the name little, and just being called little everyday can influence a person’s mentality towards life. It can cause you to have little self-confidence, little work ethics, little ability to express and show love, and when a person feels little they sometimes feel inferior in the world. Sometimes people feel like they have to live up to their nickname, and when he got older he start going by Black, he had turned to the typical Black African American man in the U.S and could have possibly even developed a mentality where he was uncomfortable in his Black skin. When it comes to what makes Chiron struggle in developing a masculine identity you can choose from a couple things. The mere fact that his biological father isn’t in the house to show him how to be a man. The fact that he has a little body frame can make a guy feel weak and powerless, and the most likely reason to his masculinity issues is the fact that he likes males. In today’s world/society we hold the man to be a bread winner, head of the household, the dominant species, and for Chiron to be attracted to males and kissing and touching on dudes he could feel like he is relinquishing his guy powers. I think he succeeds in developing a masculine identity with the confrontation with his bully Terrel, how he didn’t tell the authorities, instead he faced his problems and stood up like a