Anatomy of a Scene

The documentary “Gimme Shelter” recalled the events that led to a free concert at the Altamount Speedway by the Rolling Stones in 1969. Instead of it being presented as a regular documentary, Gimme Shelter’s portrayal of events was mostly very raw and real. It has shots of the Rolling Stones, and it subsequently goes through the process of everything that went into the concert.

The 2nd film I watched was called “Moonlight.” This film was a drama directed by filmmaker Barry Jenkins. It won a Golden Globe, Academy Award, and many more awards for numerous reasons. It was about the life of an impoverished, abandoned African American man named Chiron through three different phases of his life. In the movie, he discovers that he is gay, and he tries to deal with that. The three phases include when he was a kid, a teenager, and lastly, an adult. His mother was a prostitute who sold herself to make money to support her drug addiction. Juan played a father figure for him throughout the movie. There is a particular scene that reached me. The scene is when Chiron was a child, and Juan, who acts as a father figure to him are at the beach in the ocean. This scene stood out because Juan holds Chiron and dunks him in the water. He baptized him. While that took place, the camera went under the water. It moves with the waves in the ocean, which gives you the impression that you were looking from underwater. Throughout the rest of the movie, Juan shows Chiron how to live in this world with the many obstacles that he may face being both black and gay.

I chose to analyze the movie “Moonlight.” There is a scene in the movie where Chiron is approached by his mother, and she asks him for money, but he does not admit to her that he has any. It begins outside and gives a view of his mother, and she seems forgiving like she is glad her son is back home. As she begins to grow annoyed and asks questions, Chiron gets defensive and walks back into the house. As the shot advances, the house becomes darker, and the scene matches the mood, which is tense.