Rethinking and Unmasking Blackness in Moonlight
Words: 888 Pages: 3 3637We are only as real as the masks we wear. Black boys have an affinity for masks and scheduling their removal and adherence. Much like in Jordan Peele's Us where the young boy chooses to wear a mask throughout the film, I would argue that Jenkins' Moonlight used masks that could only be seen in the blue colored hues of the moon and deeply personal close-up shots that force the mask to be stripped and display raw vulnerability. Following the […]