Moonlight

"In moonlight, black boys look blue" It's genuinely mind boggling that Gay-Marriage was only legalized a YEAR before this movie came out. Moonlight is a film about many things, in a way it's a film about love, and what it means to "be yourself", but mostly importantly I think, this is a film about identity and how our identity is put on and shaped by the world around us.I really only want to focus on one aspect of the film though, one that I caught onto Fairly early on. The color "blue" is not only mentioned multiple times throughout the movie (mostly anecdotal), but it also tends to line-up with the events of the film and how the characters feel.For instance, in the scene when Chiron is walking through the school to go to attack Terrell, there is a TON of blue (clothes scenery, lighting), it's reflective of the confidence he had in that scene, he almost embraces the "blue" (one's true self/identity). The color blue also gets reflected upon in the final act, in the diner scene, there is a shocking lack of "blueness" in fact, I'd say it's visually the dullest scene in the film. It's not until the two go back to Kevin's apartment when that blue gets reintroduced, until the moment Kevin changes from the chef's outfit to the bright blue shirt, that their "true colors" show.This is a truly incredible coming of age movie, it is not only visually, but thematically beautiful. The only real reason this isn't a 5 star for me is because of the fact I straight up cannot connect with the film on its deepest level. I'm a white, straight kid from Michigan lmfao. (that's not to say I didn't connect with this movie at all though, because I very much did) Top 50