![]() Chiron communicates with the viewer, not often through words, but using this intertextuality of body and mind. Jenkins uses body language and evocative camera movement to achieve a sense of exclusion and solitude in Chiron’s life. Regressive emotions are expressed akin to the romanticized words of a poet, or a gentle, confident stroke of an artist. The three parts are marked by a distinct perspective on Chiron’s life, while still retaining the underlying internal crisis that binds him in the overtly chaotic world. Jenkins paints Chiron’s character in presenting three complex stages of his life: fragility, mutability, and convolution. ‘Moonlight’ employs three different shades to Chiron’s personality to achieve this imperfection in our wholesome personalities. You can’t be the same person in two different moments of your life. One goes through numerable phases of changes throughout one’s life. ![]() ![]() By dividing his exuberant story into three fragments, Jenkins manages to narrate Chiron’s life in a way that is accessible for people. ![]() Barry Jenkins, the writer-director of ‘Moonlight’, explores the subtle transformation and changes in behavior Chiron goes through in the backdrop of changing cultures and the allusion of society. ‘Moonlight’ is spread over three distinct periods in Chiron’s life: early age, adolescence, and adulthood. ![]()
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