He returns to school the following day, strides into the science class he shares with Terrel, and bashes Terrel’s head with a chair. Betrayed, Chiron repeatedly rises to his feet even after receiving several severe blows to the face. At home, Chiron cares for his sedate mother, who reminds him that she’s his “only.”Īfter school the next day, Terrel asks Kevin to play “knock down, stay down” with Chiron, and Kevin reluctantly obeys, punching Chiron but ordering him to stay down so that he may stop hitting him. Kevin gives Chiron a ride home afterward and asks him if it’s the first time Chiron has done “anything like that.” They part ways, trying to act casual but clearly smitten. After a beat of tense eye contact, they kiss and begin having sex. The conversation drifts, and Chiron says he wants “to do a lot of things that don’t make sense.” Kevin asks him to elaborate and puts his hand on Chiron’s back. They smoke together and Chiron admits to Kevin that he cries sometimes. One night, after being bullied by a kid named Terrell, Chiron takes several trains and buses to the beach, where he meets up with Kevin, who comes to the beach to smoke weed. Paula’s addiction has clearly gone from bad to worse, and she torments Chiron for the money she knows he gets from Teresa, whom she calls his “play play mommy.” He also still seeks refuge in Juan and Teresa’s house, although Juan has passed away. He still struggles with bullies, but also still finds comfort in his friend, Kevin, who is now starting to have sex with girls. Years later, high school-age Chiron hasn’t changed much. Chiron then asks Juan if he deals drugs to his mother, and Juan admits that he does. Juan and Teresa reply that he doesn’t have to know if he’s gay yet. At home, Paula takes out this frustration on Chiron, yelling at him before she retreats to her room with her boyfriend.Įventually, Chiron confronts Teresa and Juan about his sexuality, asking them if he’s a “faggot,” having clearly heard the word at school. I’m getting it from you.” She smokes in front of Juan and asks him if he plans on telling Chiron why the other boys make fun of him, insinuating what they both know: that Chiron is gay. “Don’t give me that, ‘you gotta be getting it from somewhere’ shit, nigger.
#Moonlight cast crack#
In time, Paula grows addicted to crack and confronts Juan in public about his job as a supplier to her addiction even as he’s attempting to help raise her son. He tells Chiron about his childhood nickname, “Blue.” Later, Chiron comes home to an empty house and draws himself a hot bath of blue dish soap. Juan takes pity on him and takes him to the beach, where he teaches Chiron to swim and encourages him to forge his own identity, therein becoming a father figure of sorts to Chiron.
Paula resents Juan’s help.Īt school, Chiron has trouble fitting in with the other boys while they play sports, but his closest friend, Kevin, pushes him to show the other boys he’s not “soft” by inviting Chiron to wrestle him.Ĭhiron begins appearing at Juan’s house instead of going home. There, Juan encounters Chiron’s mother, Paula, a nurse who clearly worries for Chiron, even as he resists her embrace. Juan and Teresa allow him to stay the night, and Juan brings him home the next morning. There, Chiron meets Juan’s girlfriend, Teresa together, Juan and Teresa quiz Chiron about his home, but Chiron is silent, except for his emphatic statement that he doesn’t want to go home. Juan takes pity on Chiron and brings him home. One day, running to hide from bullies, he runs past, a Miami crack dealer. As a child, Chiron (nicknamed “ Little”) faces derision from the other boys at school but doesn’t understand why.
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