Nickel Boys
Movie • 2024 • Drama
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Producers of MGM and Plan B are teaming up with director RaMell Ross for a film depiction of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel, based on real-life events which have only recently come to light. The narrative bounces between the 2010s and the 1960s as an investigation takes place surrounding the now-defunct Dozier School for Boys in Florida. The academy’s walls hide a history of atrocities, including events that led to bodies being buried on the premises.
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Kids are taken to a room to be beaten. Sounds of violence and anguish are heard, but the beatings are not directly shown.
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People are taken to a room and beat for "misbehaving". We don't see the strikes but hear them crying out.
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Appear several times, there is a fantastical/hallucinatory nature to this
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There is a close up of a spider web, but it doesn't show any spiders. There is one quick shot of what looks like a for caught in it.
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A scene of a group of boys being given only 2 or so minutes to shower. The scene shows only the shoulders and up, and is meant to demonstrate the dehumanization of carcel systems.
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The movie is shot in first-person pov, so most of the shots are a little shakey. Can be a bit nauseating for people that are sensitive to it.
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Sporadic use of flickery archival footage, television static and timelapse photography throughout the film
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The film was shot in a first-person point-of-view, so the actors talk directly to the camera, but they never break the fourth wall
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Does the black guy die first?
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Not a "black guy dies first" kind of situation, but the whole movie is about violence being inflicted on black people.
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