🎬Movie Recommendation - Moonlight 🎬
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Moonlight ht is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCrane’s unpublished semi-autobiographical play ‘In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue’. The film presents three stages in the life of the main character: his childhood, adolescence, and early adult life. It explores the difficulties he faces with his sexuality and identity, including the physical and emotional abuse he endures growing up.
Moonlight has been cited as one of the best films of the 21st century. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with Best Supporting Actor for Ali and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jenkins and McCraney from a total of eight nominations at the 89th Academy Awards. It became the first film with an all-black cast, the first LGBTQ+ related film, and the second-lowest-grossing film domestically to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Joi McMillon became the first black woman to be nominated for an editing Oscar, and Ali became the first Muslim to win an acting Oscar.
Trigger Warning: homophobia, the f-slur, violence against queer people, drug use, emotionally abusive parenting, mentions of death, implied sex, the n-word (both the reclaimed term and the “hard r”)
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