The Movie Moonlight

The film “Moonlight” explores juvenile delinquency, and fosters society to examine the foundations of our juvenile justice system, and to seek for alternate insight behind juvenile crime. It was focused on three stages of Chiron’s life from a juvenile to an adult with the theme of black urban poverty, identity question that is complex by bullying at school because is gay, home life encircled by drug dealers and a broken home. A traumatized teenager who is deprived of support trying to find his position in society which eventually leads up to his delinquency. Especially in marginalized communities where they do not traditionally have access to resources like therapy and they have to figure things out on their own. Moonlight addresses the damage

The messaging in Moonlight converges with academic and legal discourses of public protection, welfare, and diverges with responsibility and punishment. Although they intersect and disseminate in an endless and opposed course. Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, concern for the welfare or best interests of children has been made marginal to concerns with holding young criminals more accountable like adults and controlling them in custody and in the community through measures based on risk management and the outcome of Chiron reveals a more punitive approach (Trepanier, 61). Interventions, therefore should prioritize the welfare needs of individual children which are better responded to outside the criminal justice system. The answer is the objective to be needs centered and non-criminalizing. Also, the principle aim is the protection of the public through preventing offending by children and more concerned with community safety procedures (Trepanier, 56 and Brown, 380). Section 39(5) also states custody must be a last resort in cases of social measures and mental health which was not acknowledged for Chiron Whilst this forward-looking tendency is rational, it does nothing to address past wrongs (Guest Lecture,

I have gained the understanding of the part of popular films in portraying contemporary society by telling stories. Reading some newspapers, we might believe the country was under danger from violent youths. Youth crime is a problem, but it is not as rampant as the public seem to regard as true. Such theories are prevalent to which the majority of people believe in reproducing dominant beliefs (Hogeveen, 82 and Schissel,165). This opinion can be acquired through the ideological use of the mass media, in centrally producing and circulating knowledge about juvenile delinquency. The media maintains a prime environment where discourse takes place, and is amongst the most powerful forces in shaping public awareness juvenile delinquency. They facilitate the knowledge that juvenile offending is substantial. This false perception has resulted in an anxiety about juveniles considered to be risks in need of persistent control (Schissel,165-168). Moonlight uses the power of film to detail the shortcomings of the system and to sanction positive amendments. It helps raise social consciousness to the weakness of the system and have helped to inspire inquiry into the situation. It allowed us enter the mindset of a complete different individual. Moonlight is out to teach us the need for concern and Chiron’s self in Atlanta manifests how a complex system