The Moonlight Movie Analysis
Movie Review
The Moonlight
The film “The Moonlight” is a dramatic film that focusses in identity, sexuality, family, and most of all masculinity. The protagonist of the movie the “Moonlight” reflects the conflicted and fluid masculinity of young African-American men in the US. The film has three different stages played by various characters to help narrate the story of Chiron. This essay paper looks into the comparison between this movie, and “The Bucket List," movie.
To begin with, both the film's directors emphasized on the stressors of life, and while viewing the two movies one realizes that both the stages of life have their stresses. Characters of both movies have difficulties in a relationship. First, in Moonlight, Chiron has a …show more content…
problem growing up because of bullying, and at the adult stage, he gets bullied too by his friend Kevin and other more people. Paula, the mother to Chiron, is depicted as experiencing relationship problems since the movie starts without us knowing Chiron’s dad. Similarly, in the movie the Bucket, Edward Cole and Carter Chambers are both experiencing relationship problems within their lives. Carter doubts, whether her wife loves her while Edward Cole has divorced four times, and the daughter has disowned him.
In addition to this similarity, all these movies are stereotyped. In the Moonlight, Chiron nickname was “Black” this is stereotypic as he is African-American. Similarly, the movie the Bucket List also uses the same stereotype for example, as Carter narrates his youth stage, which he said had been “black broke." In both instances, black associates with poverty and problems as depicted by Carter dream of becoming history lecture but he was broke, and for Chiron, his life is at mess leading to his arrest.
The Bucket List
The Bucket List movie focusses its story in two old terminal ill cancer patients who decide to break out of the hospital and live their last days to the fullest. The main protagonists are Edward Cole (Nicholson) a billionaire who is sharing hospital with a blue-collar mechanic's Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman). This essay paper looks into the comparison between this movie, and the movie called “The Moonlight."
Contrasting the films, the “Bucket List” and the “Moonlight,” apparently these movie's settings and theme story are all distinctive.
For instance, these films show distinct adaptable and maladaptive mechanism in solving stress. In the Moonlight, Paula and Kevin used the maladaptive mechanism, which involves the use of blunt and cracks respectively to solve their problems. Whereas in the Bucket, Edward and Carter used a better adaptive mechanism, which includes attending international trips, and before that, they sought treatment for their chronic sickness called cancer. The Moonlight characters are more involved in risks whereas in the Bucket List the character uses protective mechanisms. These risks in the Moonlight movie involved the use dangerous drugs such as cocaine, which can cause damage in many parts of the body, including brain and nasal tissues. In the film, they also use Marijuana (used by Kevin), and this drug is associated with lung health problems. On the same movie, Paula is depicted as a prostitute. On the contrary, in the movie the Bucket List, the characters use a protective mechanism to fight their chronic and pain stressor, which is cancer. First, they both seek medication from the hospital and on addition, they opt to have international trips, this helps them forget their ailment for a while as they are shown enjoying the tour around the
world.
Secondly, these two movies use different skills to solve problems. In the movie the Moonlight, characters use revenge unlike in the movie the Bucket List whereas the characters used mediation instead to settle their differences. In the first case, Chiron after been attached by Kevin later attached Kevin too leading to his arrest, however, in the Bucket List, Edward after been disowned by her only daughter, Carter tries to bring them back through mediation which at the first place Edward refuses, but it eventually succeeds.
The Moonlight
The film “The Moonlight” is a dramatic film that focusses in identity, sexuality, family, and most of all masculinity. The protagonist of the movie the “Moonlight” reflects the conflicted and fluid masculinity of young African-American men in the US. The film has three different stages played by various characters to help narrate the story of Chiron. This essay paper looks into the comparison between this movie, and “The Bucket List," movie.
To begin with, both the film's directors emphasized on the stressors of life, and while viewing the two movies one realizes that both the stages of life have their stresses. Characters of both movies have difficulties in a relationship. First, in Moonlight, Chiron has a …show more content…
problem growing up because of bullying, and at the adult stage, he gets bullied too by his friend Kevin and other more people. Paula, the mother to Chiron, is depicted as experiencing relationship problems since the movie starts without us knowing Chiron’s dad. Similarly, in the movie the Bucket, Edward Cole and Carter Chambers are both experiencing relationship problems within their lives. Carter doubts, whether her wife loves her while Edward Cole has divorced four times, and the daughter has disowned him.
In addition to this similarity, all these movies are stereotyped. In the Moonlight, Chiron nickname was “Black” this is stereotypic as he is African-American. Similarly, the movie the Bucket List also uses the same stereotype for example, as Carter narrates his youth stage, which he said had been “black broke." In both instances, black associates with poverty and problems as depicted by Carter dream of becoming history lecture but he was broke, and for Chiron, his life is at mess leading to his arrest.
The Bucket List
The Bucket List movie focusses its story in two old terminal ill cancer patients who decide to break out of the hospital and live their last days to the fullest. The main protagonists are Edward Cole (Nicholson) a billionaire who is sharing hospital with a blue-collar mechanic's Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman). This essay paper looks into the comparison between this movie, and the movie called “The Moonlight."
Contrasting the films, the “Bucket List” and the “Moonlight,” apparently these movie's settings and theme story are all distinctive.
For instance, these films show distinct adaptable and maladaptive mechanism in solving stress. In the Moonlight, Paula and Kevin used the maladaptive mechanism, which involves the use of blunt and cracks respectively to solve their problems. Whereas in the Bucket, Edward and Carter used a better adaptive mechanism, which includes attending international trips, and before that, they sought treatment for their chronic sickness called cancer. The Moonlight characters are more involved in risks whereas in the Bucket List the character uses protective mechanisms. These risks in the Moonlight movie involved the use dangerous drugs such as cocaine, which can cause damage in many parts of the body, including brain and nasal tissues. In the film, they also use Marijuana (used by Kevin), and this drug is associated with lung health problems. On the same movie, Paula is depicted as a prostitute. On the contrary, in the movie the Bucket List, the characters use a protective mechanism to fight their chronic and pain stressor, which is cancer. First, they both seek medication from the hospital and on addition, they opt to have international trips, this helps them forget their ailment for a while as they are shown enjoying the tour around the
world.
Secondly, these two movies use different skills to solve problems. In the movie the Moonlight, characters use revenge unlike in the movie the Bucket List whereas the characters used mediation instead to settle their differences. In the first case, Chiron after been attached by Kevin later attached Kevin too leading to his arrest, however, in the Bucket List, Edward after been disowned by her only daughter, Carter tries to bring them back through mediation which at the first place Edward refuses, but it eventually succeeds.