re: Movies People Won't See Because They Think They Know What it's About

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didn't want to see Moonlight because it didn't look interesting.

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the last Best Picture winner I saw was Slumdog Millionaire

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Did you enjoy Slumdog?

It's interesting that you mention these two together, because they are actually very similar.

They are both coming of age movies about kids growing up in abject poverty, albeit on different sides of the planet.

Sure, one of them happens to tell the story of one that may or may not be questioning his sexuality, but that honestly shouldn't turn off any potential viewers if "it isn't about politics".

There is really only one scene that would be uncomfortable for those people anyway, and I will put you ease by spoiling that at least you don't really "see" anything. Don't get me wrong, it is an intense scene, but this isn't Brokeblack Mountain, as I've heard it described.

Both are fully clothed, and it ultimately is just a few seconds at the end of an otherwise important scene for a kid that found a momentary escape from the truly suffocating neighborhood that he's been born into. The scene is as much about him physically leaving the ghetto and the release that brings than the other "release".

Honestly, if you like coming of age stories, this is just a really good one. It is one that isn't told often, and never with as much subtlety.

And if you like The Wire, this is basically Season 4 if you just focused on one kid. The two kids that play the younger chapters of his life are outstanding, as well.

Like I said, this isn't Brokeblack Mountain. It feels much more like Mud than anything else.

That said, not everyone will love this movie obviously. It's a low budget, pretty grungy feeling production, which is perfect for the setting they are trying to show.

But anyone that enjoyed or found Slumdog or The Wire Season 4 "interesting" has very little ground to stand on if they say Moonlight doesn't "look interesting" as well, other than politics.