Movie Thoughts: Moonlight (Blog Post Two)

 A theme that really stuck out to me in the movie Moonlight was how your environment can change and shape your mentality. The main character Chiron, goes through major difficulties as he is growing up such as fitting in and finding his true self and sexuality. Most of those difficulties had to do with the toxic environment that he was raised in. Chiron was born and raised in a neighborhood where crime was not a stranger in Miami. He lived alone with his drug addict mother who neglects him when he is at home. Throughout the movie he is bullied because of his sexuality and does not have any good influences in his life to steer him in the right direction. Unfortunately, he is faced with peer pressure in his teenage years and gets into trouble due to this and it changes his whole outlook on life. 

Fast forward to his adult life, Chiron is unfortunately involved with the wrong crowd and starts selling drugs as his main hustle and has accepted that this life chose him and there is nothing he can do about it. This theme of your environment heavily affects your decisions in life and is so strong that the ending of the movie depicts it perfectly. Chiron believes that because his life was never sunshine and rainbows and he never got to see the light at the end of the tunnel to turn his life around because he has been around such toxicity that he does not know any better than what he is doing currently. The people in his life from a child to adult have shaped the way he thinks the world should be and how he should live it.