Fangirling

Your characters are allowed to be bad people. Your story is allowed to have no moral lesson.yyour ending is allowed to be sad. The villain can win. The good person can do something unforgivable. The lovers can destroy each other. You are allowed to write the thing that no one asked for and everything that everyone told you doesn’t work and you are allowed to not explain yourself.

In the first act of the film, Juan tells Chiron the story of a woman who once told him, “Running around, catching up all that light, in moonlight black boys look blue. You blue,” and he unofficially gives that nickname to Chiron. From then on, the color blue represents that little kid inside of him, his queerness, his true self. It’s a hint at the complexity inside of his hard outward character. And once he becomes a drug dealer, mirroring Juan, he goes by Black.

My favorite little detail is in this scene. They’re in the car together driving over to Kevin’s place, and Kevin looks just about ready to eat him alive. And Chiron goes; “What you looking at me like that for?” He gets all flustered and laughs for the first time since we’ve met this adult version of him.