Kevin, who has nicknamed Chiron 'Black', loves the ladies but he also is the only other person who cares about Chiron. Juan has passed on, but Teresa is still there, offering the only bit of genuine love Chiron has ever had. Chiron is still bullied, but the bullying goes beyond the taunts of the past into growing physical violence and mocking of his mother. Kevin is a pretty popular fellow, and still Chiron's only friend. Juan tells him no, that he might be gay, but not that.Īct II: Chiron finds Chiron now a teen, still bullied, and with Paula more involved in drugs and not ashamed to give herself to men for money/drugs. Little looks up at Juan and asks if he, Little, is one. He's told that's something said to gay people to hurt them. Juan doesn't lie when he's asked if he's a drug dealer, and Little also asks him what a 'f****t' is. Little finds genuine love only with Juan and Teresa, despite their business. Paula, for her part, slips into drugs, and Juan finds himself her supplier. Little's only real friend is Kevin, who is more popular and self-assured. The bullying continues, and Juan does his best to mentor Chiron (who is nicknamed Little), taking him to the beach for swimming and life lessons.
This is the only time Paula is shown in a good place, a loving, hardworking woman who worries about her son but who is also a bit inattentive. Juan takes Chiron first to his girlfriend, Teresa (Janelle Monae) for some food, a bed, and a bit of emotional support, then to Chiron's mother, Paula (Naomie Harris). Coming across him is Juan (Mahershala Ali), a local drug kingpin who sees in Chiron someone in desperate need of love and a father figure. Told in three acts, Moonlight is the story of Chiron.Īct I: Little is of Chiron in his elementary school years, a victim of constant bullying who flees his tormentors and finds temporary refuge in an abandoned apartment. Openly cinematic in terms of its visuals, it is a carefully paced film, hypnotic, sometimes painful but always sincere in its telling of how one man came to be. Moonlight is a portrait of a man who grows into both what society expects him to become and a man who comes into his own apart from expectations.
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