Moonlight

Chiron is shown three times, under three names, in Miami. Jenkins and James Laxton shoot skin and water so the boy is never a case file. Juan, played by Mahershala Ali, teaches him to float and does not pretend the lesson fixes the street. The A24 trailer moves through Little, Chiron, and Black without a speech about growing up. The diner scene at the end is the film’s whole method: two people, a booth, and the years they do not narrate.