I taught Juan and Chiron were the same character in the movie Moonlight.

Like the title said, I thought the movie Moonlight was playing with time—where Little (Chiron) saw Juan as an imaginary friend that only he could see, someone that doesn’t exist that he could think about at his lowest moments. In this interpretation when Chiron became an adult in Act 3, he actually became Juan. I thought the movie was a time loop, where you grow into something better than what you were taught to be. In my mind, with this interpretation, if the movie had cut at 1h17min at the reveal of Act 3, it would end with the idea that he became Juan in the end, and that’s how he started helping future generations of children. Also with this interpretation it would make the swimming scene in act 1 more like him escaping from everything and going to the beach to try to kill himself in hopes of getting carried by the sea. Maybe it’s because I smoked too much while watching the movie, but I think this interpretation—where the story loops around itself—is better than the actual ending.