Black boys look blue by moonlight
Went to see Moonlight with Ruthi; it produced a lot of very intense complicated feelings and some urgent Thoughts about interactions between masculinity and vulnerability and abuse and alllll the other shit, but unfortunately they're also massively tied up in the Many Feelings and will never make any sense, and so Ruthi and I went for dinner and Repression Alcohol afterward so that we could gently pick out individual moments or small observations to look at while leaving the rest firmly alone to fester:
1. Names are important throughout the narrative in connection with choice.
2. It's very beautiful cinematically
3. Pinter-esque pauses and incredible tension
4. A kind of positivity beneath everything that I didn't really register at the time
5. No hand-holding of the audience
6. A lot of tropes that I recognise from fanfiction, and recognising them as classic fanfiction tropes helped to alleviate the tension of some otherwise wildly emotional moments.
7. I am pre-emptively FUCKING FURIOUS that this is probably going to lose out to that garbage pile La La Land at the Oscars.
[for the interested: taking YET ANOTHER gym rest day because my tendon is still troubling me and my chest was too last night, but with any luck I should be able to pick up on Sunday; I am concerned about not being able to run though].
1. Names are important throughout the narrative in connection with choice.
2. It's very beautiful cinematically
3. Pinter-esque pauses and incredible tension
4. A kind of positivity beneath everything that I didn't really register at the time
5. No hand-holding of the audience
6. A lot of tropes that I recognise from fanfiction, and recognising them as classic fanfiction tropes helped to alleviate the tension of some otherwise wildly emotional moments.
7. I am pre-emptively FUCKING FURIOUS that this is probably going to lose out to that garbage pile La La Land at the Oscars.
[for the interested: taking YET ANOTHER gym rest day because my tendon is still troubling me and my chest was too last night, but with any luck I should be able to pick up on Sunday; I am concerned about not being able to run though].