Movies: New Film Addresses Bullying, School Violence, & Mass Incarceration

 

If you need something to take your mind off of last week's election results, or to focus your mind on one of the worlds we live in, you might want to check out Moonlight. A glowing NYT review (‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie?) describes the film as being in part about "drug abuse, mass incarceration and school violence." But it's about so much more. Some of the key moments of the film take place at/during/after school, and you might think of the film as a version of Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" if the main character was young, poor, black, and gay.