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Analysis Of Moon Delight By Barry Jenkins

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Derik Vo
Donnelle McGee
MoonLight
“MoonLight,” by Barry Jenkins follows a young African-American boy, Chiron’s, journey as a homosexual evolving in an impoverished environment filled with facades of masculinity, drug abuse, and homophobia. Barry Jenkins designed MoonLight in a way that the story unfolds in chapters, chapter one follows Chiron as a pre-adolescent, chapter two follows Chiron first homosexual experience in his teenage years, and chapter three follows Chiron’s facade of hyper masculinity, hiding his homosexuality after spending time in juvie for assaulting a school bully. Having a chapter based structure allows large gaps in time between the milestones of Chiron 's life. Because of those large gaps, the audience is left to fill
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