Like snapshots, these pivotal moments get edited together in our minds.
We become the directors and stars of our own biopics.
Or, in the case ofMoonlight, what it means to be Chiron.
Credit: David Bornfriend
In the final chapter, Black (Trevante Rhodes) is almost unrecognizable.
Hes bigger, and harder, and his life seems to have taken a tragic turn.
Slinging drugs, with a gold grill in his mouth, Chirons the reincarnation of Juan.
But life and Jenkins film isnt done with him yet.
Throughout this remarkable story, Chiron is repeatedly asked, Who is you?
and he rarely answers, either because he doesnt quite know or hes too scared to say.
It isnt until the movies lyrical finale in the glow of the moonlight that he finds something like an answer.A
