Moonlight: Who Is You? (Psalm 139:13-16)

Moonlight follows Chiron through three stages of life, shaped by trauma, poverty, and questions of identity he cannot voice. When drug dealer Juan baptizes young Chiron in the ocean, teaching him to float, it becomes the film's most sacred moment—a man who profits from destroying Chiron's mother offering the boy something his mother cannot: presence, acceptance, the experience of being held. The psalm declares, You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. Chiron's journey asks what happens when that womb is hostile, when the knitting unravels before it is finished. Yet even broken people can hold space for others' becoming. Juan's baptism does not save him from the consequences of his choices, but it plants a seed of being known.