23/11
Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross shares five films that have influenced him as a film buff and director
Plot
Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African-Americans as they navigate the harrowing trials of a Florida reform school.
Told solely from the subjective perspective of the main character and another intern he befriends at the school
Young Girl Screenplay, Screenplay, and Produced by Herschel Dwellingham Performed by Frank Lynch Courtesy of Grass of Home Productions and Publishing (BMI) A harrowing tale of the abuse and mistreatment of youth of color in a reform school.
While I appreciate the ambition behind it, it unfortunately and somewhat paradoxically distances me from the main character
Some of the early scenes felt a bit contrived and forced by this technique, and the dialogue never flowed naturally.
You could make out the events, but the details escaped me
Watching this at the Stockholm Film Festival without subtitles was also a bit of a challenge, as there were scenes where it was very difficult to understand the dialogue.
