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Moonlight -- Best Movie of 2016-- 4 out 5

"Moonlight is one of the most beautiful and heart-wrenching films that I have ever seen. Many users are expressing disdain or presumed it to be dull. Yet, to see it as such misses the whole point of the film. Moonlight wasn't intended to overtly wow us or give us knowledge about something we didn't already know. Rather the film allowed us to enter and follow a life that I'm sure many have never considered living. Yes, we know some about poverty, queerness, masculinity, and Blackness individually, but to see the conflict of it all so succinctly woven together allowed the complexity of some folks lives to be seen in an unadulterated way. Moonlight wasn't supposed to give us some grandiose finale or even answers, but simply present a narrative that we often don't see. And that's what makes it so simple, painful, yet outstandingly beautiful."

from review on Imdb

Pretty much agree with the reviewer. Thought performances were excellent.  Gave insight into bleak, stunted childhood that is too common . . . and the problem with coming out of that kind of childhood and somehow being a full adult.  Weakest part was the identification of the young boy as gay . . . too young for everyone to somehow "know" that he's gay.  Mother was excellent. Mentor in "boyhood" part of the film oddly disappears . . . 



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