Let Me SAY THIS.......

I think it was a pretty solid film but my main problem is that it seemed familiar. I didn't see anything new here that I didn't see in something like "City of God".

Affirmative Action? That's funny. Maybe the film is getting so much hype is because of the "Affirmative Action" associated with Brad Pitt being the executive producer on this film. It amazes me how whites cry about so called black films unjustly getting praise but say nothing about the mostly white films that are raved about that likewise don't deserve praise. Moonlight was not exceptional to me. However, not many of today's films are. Yet, I'm not screaming Affirmative Action. It's very prejudiced and dismissive.

This movie wore its Wong Kar Wai on its sleeve. It could be argued that the style served as the substance, at least partly. Maybe you could lump some Terrence Malick in there too in the way that we see the visual/tonal poem motif of conveying character information.

The story itself is pretty simple: boy meets childhood sweetheart, they find love together, and then they reconnect after years apart.

As to it winning the best picture thingy, a lot has to be attributed to the making of that premise by director Barry Jenkins. How do you think Moonlight would have turned out if it were made like La La Land?

Come to think of it, I would so look forward to that opening number about dealing dope on the streets in the hot Florida sun. It's another day of drugs!

How can you watch Juan cautiously coaxing Little and call this soulles?

I watched this with my college roommate (she's a young woman of color) and when the credits started rolling she said, "That's it?" It was my second time watching and I liked it but I guess it's not for everyone. I even pleasured my roommate's young feminine region (we're bi) during the movie and maybe I did too good of a job and the movie was a disappointment in comparison. Who knows

Regardless of the race issue or the why it won (it mostly won because it was everything the much hyped Lala Land wasn't), I have to agree about the movie. It could have been a powerful movie but it feels like an unfinished documentary that stays remotely disconnected from its protagonist;

We're supposed to feel for Chiron, and in a way, we do, but not any more fiercely or intimately than any kid living a similar life in a similar environment. The movie ultimately fails at making the audience connect to its central character and it robs itself of a deeper meaning than the sympathy similar stories inspire.

I do disagree, however, about that making it "not an Oscar winner". Actually, in the past years, I found that it's an issue I've had with all the winners, including 12 Years a Slave and Spotlight. It feels like having a great human topic and exploring it are the same now and they're really not. Presenting something coldly and making the audience feel it are two different things.

Am I the only one that didn't make it past this person's first sentence?