Chiron’s view: filmic language in the construction of the relationship between the main character and his mother in the movie Moonlight

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Milena Pereira dos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Pós (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistapos/article/view/36128
• topic: Relação entre personagens.; Análise fílmica.; Campo e contracampo; Técnicas cinematográficas; Relationship between characters.; Film analysis.; Cinematographic techniques; Shot and countershot; Relación entre personajes.; Análisis de películas.; Técnicas cinematográficas; Plano y contraplano

This article deals with the way in which the relationship between the characters Paula (played by Naomie Harris) and Chiron (played by Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Trevante Rhodes) is built in the movie Moonlight (2016), by Barry Jenkins. The context of the movie's narrative is presented, and sequences are chosen for analysis and for the purpose of comparing the course of the relationship throughout the work. The cinematographic techniques mobilized for the construction of the relationship are objects of analysis, namely: the shot and countershot for dialogues, the close-up, the look at the camera, camera movements and shots. While in the first two chapters the relationship is conflicting, in the last one it is friendly, and reflects on the choices made for the composition of the scenes and the cinematographic techniques mobilized for them.