Review of Moonlight (2016) by Axet — 03 Feb 2017
As far as Academy Award affirmative action handout recipients in this year's nominations, this is the other end of the spectrum from the much more watchable, commercial and accomplished "Hidden Figures".
This artsy, European and Asian cinema influenced personal story is a very small low budget film of slight accomplishment. That doesn't make it less worthy though. What does is the fact it is a far lesser effort than so many others and has no particular brilliance.
Just because a story is personal does not qualify it for production nor a wide audience. Everyone has a story, and most are not cinematic enough to be told. Sorry. Yet still, there is nothing wrong with telling a little story from your life.
It's good the film was made and has its merits for some. What is wrong is the sick deranged mass over praise by shallow crying to be noble critics for a very slow, arty for art's sake, little film that doesn't deliver on story craft or emotion to any degree remotely close to a great personal film with similar subject matter of growing up in a rough city setting like "Boyz n the Hood".
This review of Moonlight (2016) was written by Axet on 03 Feb 2017.
Moonlight has generally received very positive reviews.
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