caglarsonmez

I also took the hype train and started watching Moonlight with serious enthusiasm and expectation, as supposed to be I guess because of awards, ratings etc. Unfortunately I cannot write any good comments. Simply put; this is a bad movie. Movie is not good for any aspects, not good for having a solid story, not good for performances, not good for picture, directing, music and so on. It is actually surprising that movie is only mediocre for everything. I mean, it could be good for even a few things. Thus, nobody deserve any prizes for this 2 hour waste of media.

Character depth is a joke. It couldn't been more shallow and under told. It is almost like writer or director thought: "well, you all watched numerous other movies, or heard stories about poor African-American society, drug addiction, bad motherhood, bullying etc. we don't need to repeat them again, but we also don't have anything more than that except this time there's a gay boy, so just focus on that and don't sweat us, just feel sorry and cry." They have literally lounged about telling a solid story and mocked viewers like "meh, you fill the gaps".

This movie tries to be Boyhood, but got nowhere close to it. It tries to arouse some feelings of sensitivity or social responsibility but became only superficial and narrow-minded.

Cutting it short; Moonlight is just an overrated, over hyped, sponsored and politically backed up movie that nobody will remember within 3 months, yet to be an epic story.