http://www.vulture.com/2016/11/tarell-alvin-mccraney-on-writing-moonlight.html

What Barry did so expertly, and what the story is doing so expertly, is saying, at the end of the day, the thing you most want has nothing to do with your masculinity or what occupation you decide. The thing you most want, being seen, doesn't require all of those things. And yet, we think that it does in some way. We think that a performance of something is necessary in order to get those things.