The
poetic coming-of-age story Moonlight took home the top prize of Best Picture at
Sunday night's Academy Awards in dramatic fashion after La La Land was
mistakenly initially declared the winner. Written and directed by Barry
Jenkins, the film beat out Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water,
Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion and Manchester by the Sea. Producers Adele
Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner accepted the award. https://goo.gl/zKVom6
From its fantastic opening shot, in which the
camera pivots around a parked car at a drug corner, Moonlight acknowledges the
destructive cycles—of poverty, of crime, of toxic self-image—that too many kids
get sucked into. At the same time, the film sidesteps stereotypes. Chiron’s
single mother, Paula, shatteringly portrayed by Naomie Harris, may be a junkie,
but she’s no one-dimensional monster; creating her own devastating arc across
just a handful of scenes, Harris shows glimmers of the better parent she’s
trying to be. And then there’s Juan (a fantastic Mahershala Ali), the drug
dealer who discovers young Chiron (Hibert) hiding in a vacant building and
starts looking after the boy. A viewer might doubt the man’s motives (is he
grooming another kid for the corner?) were it not for the great paternal warmth
Ali conveys—especially during the deeply moving scene where Juan and his
girlfriend (Janelle Monáe) talk to Chiron, with honesty and without judgment,
about his sexuality. http://www.avclub.com/review/one-2016s-best-moonlight-unfolds-coming-age-story--244467
In
extraordinary scenes, the La La Land team were halfway through their victory
speeches when it was noticed that the wrong film name had been read out by
Warren Beatty and that Moonlight was actually the winner. Remember that
the Oscar Award event was taking place
on the very day of the powerful solar
eclipse. If we look at the chart for the eclipse drawn for Hollywood we notice that it is placed in
the 12th house conjunct Neptune in Pisces which is just rising. As astrologers we say that the
rational mind and Neptune are at odds as Neptune is the dissolver of the need
for clarity - hence, Neptune’s association with mishaps, confusion or mistakes.
But the eclipse chart goes further and helps identify the
winning film. How is that?
The film tells the story about a poor, gay black young man named Chiron
and guess what in the eclipse chart Neptune is conjunct Chiron in Pisces on the Ascendant!
Being the last sign of the zodiac, Pisces symbolizes an era of storms and of wholesale disintegration
so that it stands for themes, like the one here, which highlight society
breaking down under the weight of its crystallizations – poverty, drugs and
crime eating away at the essence of what we like to think of as a healthy
society. Conditioning and social cultural hierarchies have created deep grooves
of habitual safe havens we dwell in to keep sanctions intact, fearing and repressing the unknown and vying for the
predictable. But when repressed energies can no longer be submerged,
one typically finds the retreat to substances to numb the effects. In its role
as boundary dissolver, Neptune is also linked
to confusion about gender identity in one’s sexual preferences. But it is also
linked to genuine compassion when the boundary of the ego is transcended and
one begins to feel for others. All these
are themes dealt by the movie. The role of Neptune is to allow one to feel these
repressed or rejected themes so they may heal as most disease has its roots in
the emotional realm before reaching the physical.
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