Moonlight (I) (2016)

Trevante Rhodes: Black

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• [last lines] 

  Black : [to Kevin]  You the only man that's ever touched me.

  [long pause] 

  Black : You're the only one.

  [long pause] 

  Black : I haven't really touched anyone since.

• Black : So you're Cuban now?

  Kevin : Only in the kitchen, Papi.

• Kevin : Who is you man?

  Black : Who, me?

  Kevin : Yeah nigga. You. Them fronts? That car? Who is you Chiron?

  Black : I'm me man. Ain't trying to be nothing else.

  Kevin : So you hard now?

  Black : I ain't say that.

  Kevin : Then what?

  [pause] 

  Kevin : Look. I'm not trying hem you up. Just... I ain't seen you in a minute. Not what I expected, none of it. Not good or bad. Just not what I expected.

  Black : Well, what did you expect?

  [pause] 

  Kevin : You remember the last time I saw you?

  [pause] 

  Black : For a long time, tried not to remember. Tried to forget all those times.

  [pause] 

  Kevin : Yeah. I know.

• Kevin : So Chiron...

  Black : [chuckles]  What... Why are you lookin' me like that for?

  Kevin : What man? Come on, you just drove down here?

  [pause] 

  Black : Yeah.

  Kevin : Like you was just, you was just on one, and you hit the highway?

  Black : [quietly]  Yeah.

  [pause] 

  Kevin : So where you gonna stay tonight man?

• Kevin : I ain't see you in like, a decade... It's not what I expected.

  Chiron : What did you expect?

• Black : Why'd you call me?

  Kevin : What?

  Black : Why did you call me?

  Kevin : I told you, this dude came in, he played this song.

• Paula : I messed up. I fucked it all the way up. I know that. But your heart ain't gotta be black like mine, baby. I love you, Chiron. I do. I love you, baby. I mean, you ain't gotta love me. Lord knows I did not have love for you when you needed it, I know that. So you ain't gotta love me; but you gon' know that I love you. You hear? You hear me, Chiron?

  Black : [quietly]  I hear you, Mama.

• Kevin : It's Kevin. You do remember me, right?

  [pause] 

  Black : Yeah.

• Black : It is what it is.

• Kevin : Who is you, Chiron?

  Chiron : I'm me man. I ain't trying to be nothing else.