Review of Moonlight (2016)
Seen in 2021.
The least expensively produced Best Picture Oscar, adjusted for inflation, to date, which is nice. It’s well played and very well lit. I like the understated story and the intersectional gay-person-of-colour perspective; it’s touching and believable. Bonus points for the main character drinking water. The only problem with Moonlight is that it ultimately conforms to the same conventions as other Oscar-winning dramas, derived from 19th-century theatre. Compare Boyhood (2014), which did so much more with boyhood.