Moonlight.

• Author: Shackford, Scott
• Position: FILM - Movie review - Brief article

Barry Jenkins' Moonlight is a triptych tale delving into the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of a young gay black man immersed in poverty and the drug trade in Southern Florida.

That summary may sound like a recipe for lectures and melodrama. But the life of Chiron (played by three different actors at different ages) is instead a quiet, reflective coming-of-age story of a young man learning how to fit in, but also to find himself, In what Is at times a harsh culture. The viewer watches Chiron working around his mother's drug problems as a child, coming to terms with his sexuality as a teen, and reflecting on how all these experiences inform the decisions he makes as a man.

Drug dealing and addiction...