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I don't think Moonlight was trying to play up the gay or PC angle in any way. I do think it's Oscar bait slightly but not because of the cast or any of those reasons.

I thought it was a bit of Oscar-bait in three particular scenes (one in each act) where Chiron has this supposedly 'deep' and meaningful contemplative conversation. It was a bit forced and heavy-handed, the 'deep' conversations in that movie didn't feel as natural as in other ones (including Boyhood which it's compared to though I think it's almost as good as Boyhood). Plus the whole character suffering from tragedy with a druggie mother thing but that's part of the story-line at least, the deep conversations were just a bit hard for me to take seriously.

Though I did watch Manchester By The Sea a couple weeks before and nothing was gonna top that 4 minute scene with Casey Affleck & Michelle Williams or how real everything else felt in that film, I should've watched Moonlight before lol.