I really hate my review for Moonlight. This isn’t me at my
usual self-deprecation; I genuinely don’t like how it turned out. I’ve always
had a policy of utter honesty, even if it meant getting into uncomfortable shit
in the process, but that review showed me at my ugliest. It’s just about the
whitest thing I’ve ever written and it shows, coming across as racist at
certain times. The suburban white kid-in-adult-clothing in me saw Moonlight’s
incredible honesty and rawness and just didn’t know how to respond; it’s like I
just read through someone’s private journal, something that is both true and
something I myself wasn’t meant to see.
That’s the closest I can get to a rationale on why it turned
out how it did, and I can only hope it’s something that hasn’t persisted since
then. And since we’re dealing with the latest from the same writer/director,
and it indeed carries that same heavy feeling I left Moonlight with, I’m hoping
that this review will show that.
