Pariah (2011)
Directed by Dee Rees
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
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This is an exceptional motion picture, emotional and powerful and beautifully rendered and true, but movies like this – and Ava DuVernay’s The Middle of Nowhere, and Dee Rees’s Pariah, and so many more – aren’t just about that (through they’re commendable on those terms as well).
Like Dee Rees’ Pariah from 2011 (which is about a black same-sex attracted teenage girl in Brooklyn), Moonlight takes familiar elements of films about both the black and gay experiences and morphs them into something that feels fresh and new.
Her Oscar omission for “Pariah” still stings and I rejoice at the sight of her in any film.
He showed his abilities and the depth of his scope with the little seen “Middle of Nowhere” from Ava DuVernay in 2012, and “Pariah” by Dee Rees from 2011.