“Moonlight,” with its sensuous humidity, chopped-and-screwed score and melancholy pace, has haunted and halted me from figuring out just what it is that makes it a movie for the ages. Perhaps that’s the point.
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After the creative boom of the ‘70s, the Hollywood pendulum swung away from the cinematic achievements it had produced at its auteur zenith and towards the lowest common denominator.
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The move towards detached fantasy would ultimately mark the ‘60s as one of the most backwards-looking decade in Oscar history, giving seven top prizes to movies that dwell on times gone by.
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Seeing that this was the decade that cemented the notion of Americana as ideal and continued to ride the jingoistic wave of the post-war late ‘40s, it scarcely comes as a surprise that the Academy would want to rise above the grim immorality on display in these films.
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