Coming-of-Age Critical Analysis Blog Post
In my essay, I talked about the idea of "coming-of-age as someone else" as it applies to Moonlight the film that I watched for this project. In Moonlight the main character, Chiron a young gay black man growing up in poverty, goes through the process of growing into himself, a process which is extremely hampered by his circumstances. Now I am not black or impoverished so it would be a little foolish to attempt to understand "what Chiron is going through" because I simply cannot, however, what I do see is the way that Chiron is not allowed by his circumstances to be all facets of himself at all times. He is very shy and soft-spoken, but these characteristics get him bullied by his peers and yelled at by his mother so eventually, he covers them up with a hard, cool exterior. Throughout the course of the movie which is told in three distinct parts, we develop a pretty clear understanding of Chiron's reasoning for building up a personality that really is not w