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The two tearfully reconcile before Paula lets Chiron go.Ĭhiron travels to Miami and visits Kevin at his workplace, a diner. His mother apologizes for not loving him when he needed it most and tells him she loves him even if he does not love her back.

While visiting Paula, Chiron breaks his silence. One morning, Kevin calls and invites him to see him should he ever come to Miami. He receives frequent calls from Paula, who asks him to visit her at the drug treatment center where she is living. Now going by the nickname 'Black,' an adult Chiron deals drugs in Atlanta. Chiron is arrested, and leaves the school in a police cruiser while Kevin watches. The next day, an enraged Chiron walks into class and smashes a chair over Terrel's head before being restrained by classmates and a teacher. When the principal urges him to reveal his attackers' identities, Chiron refuses, saying that reporting them will not solve anything. Kevin reluctantly punches Chiron until he cannot stand, watching as Terrel and other boys savagely attack him. The next morning, Terrel manipulates Kevin into participating in a hazing ritual. While smoking a blunt together, the two discuss their ambitions and the nickname Kevin gave Chiron when they were children. One night, Kevin visits Chiron at the beach near his house. Chiron's childhood friend Kevin tells him about a detention he received for being caught having sex with a girl in a school stairwell, and Chiron later dreams about Kevin and the girl having sex in Teresa's back yard, waking with a start. Paula, who has turned to prostitution due to her worsening addiction, forces Chiron to give her the money he receives from Teresa. Now a teenager, Chiron juggles avoiding school bully Terrel and spending time with Teresa, who has lived alone since Juan's death. After Juan remorsefully answers yes to both questions, Chiron leaves. Chiron then asks Juan whether he sells drugs and whether his mother does drugs. Juan tells him it is 'a word used to make gay people feel bad.' He tells Chiron there is nothing wrong with being gay and that he should not allow others to mock him. The next day, Chiron admits to Juan and Teresa that he hates his mother and asks what a ' faggot' is. She implies that she knows why Chiron gets tormented by his peers, alluding to 'the way he walks' before going home and taking out her frustration on Chiron.

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Juan berates her for being addicted and for neglecting her son, but she rebukes him for selling crack to her in the first place all the while, they argue over Chiron's upbringing. One night, Juan encounters Paula smoking crack with one of his customers.

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Chiron continues to spend time with Juan, who teaches him how to swim and mentors him, telling him he can choose his own path in life.

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He lets Chiron spend the night with him and his girlfriend Teresa before returning Chiron to his mother Paula, who revokes his TV privileges as punishment for worrying her. In Liberty City, Miami at the height of the crack epidemic, Afro-Cuban drug dealer Juan finds Chiron, a withdrawn child who goes by the nickname 'Little,' hiding from a group of bullies in a crackhouse.

5.2 Intersection of blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability.

Joi McMillon became the first black woman to be nominated for an editing Oscar, and Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim to win an acting Oscar.

It became the first LGBTQ film with an all-black cast and the second-lowest-grossing film domestically (behind The Hurt Locker) to win the Oscar for Best Picture. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with Best Supporting Actor for Ali and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jenkins and McCraney from a total of eight nominations, at the 89th Academy Awards. Moonlight has been cited as one of the best films of the 21st century. It was released in the United States on October 21, 2016, by A24, receiving universal acclaim and grossing over $65 million worldwide. Filmed in Miami, Florida, beginning in 2015, Moonlight premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2016. It explores the difficulties he faces with his sexuality and identity, including the physical and emotional abuse he endures growing up.

The film presents three stages in the life of the main character: his childhood, adolescence, and early adult life. The film stars Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali. Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.