Civil right movement, drug abuse, drug crime, student-teacher relationships, black poverty, white poverty, social drama, racism, Ryan Gosling.
If you wanted to describe this film, the best way to do it would be using a list of hashtags. How well they go together and how good they are backed up with substantial content is no matter. What seems to matter is just announcing the topics that trigger critics and audience alike.
One step into, however, and this movie just falls apart, like a world of an ever high or drunk or hungover loser stuck in his own childish mentality. The narrative is weak, the plot is simply not there, the most appealing character is probably the basketball the child protagonist seems to be carrying around all the time - and only because it's nether black nor white but red instead.
The rest is a worn indie bullsh!t that has actually never been good but has once been considered trendy. The famous faces are probably the only thing that keeps this wreck afloat.
I once thought that Moonlight was a parasite product feeding off the current social turmoil. Now I see that, compared to the likes of Half Nelson, that film was sheer brilliance come to life. Which literally shows how low our taste has fallen because of the critics who don't distinguish between important social issues and good cinema.
If you wanted to describe this film, the best way to do it would be using a list of hashtags. How well they go together and how good they are backed up with substantial content is no matter. What seems to matter is just announcing the topics that trigger critics and audience alike.
One step into, however, and this movie just falls apart, like a world of an ever high or drunk or hungover loser stuck in his own childish mentality. The narrative is weak, the plot is simply not there, the most appealing character is probably the basketball the child protagonist seems to be carrying around all the time - and only because it's nether black nor white but red instead.
The rest is a worn indie bullsh!t that has actually never been good but has once been considered trendy. The famous faces are probably the only thing that keeps this wreck afloat.
I once thought that Moonlight was a parasite product feeding off the current social turmoil. Now I see that, compared to the likes of Half Nelson, that film was sheer brilliance come to life. Which literally shows how low our taste has fallen because of the critics who don't distinguish between important social issues and good cinema.