HELLO so finished happy together a little bit ago and hmm lots of thoughts definitely very 🥴 first of all i should probs read movie summaries because i didn't think it would be so sad KSJDKS esp cuz of the title yk. i really liked the coloring & cinematography and how it started out black and white but became colorful i THINK when ho and lai touched or smth..... also chang what an angel loved his friendship with lai and the recorder scene and lai crying gosh (parallel to ho crying!!!!!! there were a lot of parallels actually which i really enjoyed). didn't love the ending tbh like the music was so upbeat and didn't really fit imo????? but also i was so scared when lai was at the falls i thought that was gna be the end 😭 overall it was good though i appreciate how complex their relationship was but ugh wish they could've communicated and been together it was a bit frustrating they couldn't when they so clearly liked each other yk?? but also there were a lot of signs of toxicity..... lowkey feel like i missed smth i didn't realize ho was doing sex work till i checked wikipedia halfway thru my brain is 😬 OH last thing loved the song at the falls the first time it was italian and also in moonlight!!!! which also have u seen moonlight??? i feel like u def have but i just realized i'm not totally sure. ne way would love to hear ur thoughts on this hope you're sleeping well & have a good week :-) <3

hello! yes yes yes. I thought you knew happy together was sad af otherwise I would’ve warned you, my bad. I feel like this film is so devastating. this feeling of being lost and never being able to return home is honestly so fucked up. also like, the imagery. I don’t want this to sound mean or bad but this film is so depressing... in a good way shgkgshks. it’s been a while since I’ve last seen it but I think the toxicity is somewhat the point. maybe some things cannot work out and it’s best to move on from them because they will hold you trapped. no romantic place (apparently the film has the alternative title buenos aires affair), no romantic feelings will fix that. so in a way, they were happy together but this happiness came from this messy place they were in and only lai was able to move on from it in the end... also yeah, I’ve seen moonlight, even before the whole acadamy award win and everything but I probably should’ve rewatched in higher quality because very little people seemed to care about it when it first came out and there were only low quality uploads online (film pirates are homoph*bic, there we said it), so most of the cinematography I’ve seen was actually in gif sets sghksghks. it really is important to not watch films in bad quality, trust me on that. your first impression will be completely different. I have to say, I had a feeling moonlight was somewhat close to wong kar wai films in tone and imagery (despite clearly dealing with different topics... maybe) but I only realized that when I saw people make comparison posts and videos on it. anyway, I think wong kar wai films are good if not the best inspiration for films including romance and love, barry jenkins got that right. and moonlight is an amazing film in its own right but for me personally, seeing a little bit of wong kar wai in it, really makes it. especially when I think about my blueberry nights where wong kar wai tried to translate his work into an american setting and that really just sucked, so don’t watch that sghksghks