Review of Moonlight (2016) by Ismail F — 25 Feb 2017

After all the hype and the glowing praise, and yes it's a stunning visual meditation on identity, violence, and reconciliation but it's very difficult not to be overwhelmed by the inherent homophobia and the downplayed erotics of it.

. a little step for gay black men but still a lot to go. The film stripped bare any erotic semblance and drowned any notion of desire in the pathos of emotional trauma of black violence and homophobia.

There could not have been two characters unsexed as these two. Even if the film was an emotional and visual triumph I still cannot overcome such absence or willful omission. Heterosexual or not, the director and actors should have known better.