{"id":3486,"date":"2024-12-30T04:10:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shirscribe.com\/?p=3486"},"modified":"2024-12-30T04:10:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:10:26","slug":"nickel-boys-movie-my-review-the-screening-experience-things-left-unsaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shirscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/30\/nickel-boys-movie-my-review-the-screening-experience-things-left-unsaid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nickel Boys&#8217; Movie: My Review, the Screening Experience &#038; Things Left Unsaid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, I got a chance to attend a screening of the film <em>Nickel Boys<\/em> followed by a Q&amp;A and reception featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8840476\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RaMell Ross<\/a>, the director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0254712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor<\/a>, an Oscar-nominated actress who plays in the film, and other members of the cast and crew. I\u2019ll recount my thoughts on the entire experience here, including a review of the movie. Interestingly enough a reoccurring theme I encountered every step of the way was things left unsaid. Read on to see what I mean. Starting with\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Trailer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you heard of<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgm.com\/movies\/nickel-boys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nickel Boys<\/a><\/em>? Before this screening I certainly hadn\u2019t. While it may have been adapted from bestselling author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colsonwhitehead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colson Whitehead\u2019s<\/a> Pulitzer Prize winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/223161\/the-nickel-boys-by-colson-whitehead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">novel of the same name<\/a> (I told y\u2019all I don\u2019t read much and I definitely don\u2019t read books like this), everything about this story was news to me. Even the gruesome fact that it was based off a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florida_School_for_Boys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">real-life corrupt reform school<\/a><strong> <\/strong>that<strong> <\/strong>just shut down in 2011. I pretty much went into the movie blind, save for checking out the trailer they were initially showing. Here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NICKEL BOYS | Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2qZ429rUZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">When I saw this trailer, I had a feeling this was going to be a sad movie, but I was hoping I was wrong. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now anytime I see black boys in what looks like prison garb, the first thing that comes to mind is this is going to be a sad movie. I do not like sad movies. I do not wish to see sad movies\u2026unless of course, it has a happy ending. But this trailer left things unsaid. So many things that it really could have gone either way. I reasoned that maybe they are going to have this amazing friendship that would help them overcome the horrendous circumstances they were in. I\u2019d read a blurb about there being a friendship in a reform school aspect to the story. But ultimately it was the promise of my favorite \u2013 free food \u2013 to follow this screening during a reception that made me take a chance. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019ve since released a second trailer you can view below. This one comes across as even more hopeful than the first. See that white man who cradles the little black boys head in his hand? That may look like a loving gesture to some, but in actuality that is a very bad man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nickel Boys | Official Trailer 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8HZKgYknVN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve seen this type of marketing trickery with other films, in particular with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandvm.com\/post\/why-it-ends-with-us-movie-marketing-failed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marketing campaign of the movie <em>It Ends With Us<\/em><\/a>, which gave the impression that it could be your typical rom-com when in fact it was a domestic violence drama. Similarly, this latest <em>Nickel Boys<\/em> trailer is giving hope and triumph in the midst of the Jim Crow era, without letting on to the tragedy and horror that lies ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Movie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Set mostly in 1960s Florida, <em>Nickel Boys<\/em> is the feature film directorial debut of RaMell Ross that centers around two black boys at a reform school. One, Elwood, played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5376232\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ethan Herisse<\/a>, is an optimistic, high-achieving student who landed there by accident. The other, Turner, played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1518261\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brandon Wilson<\/a> is a realist, who I\u2019m not clear why or how he ended up at the school. &nbsp;You see, I kinda arrived at the screening a little late, and by a little I mean around 30 minutes. It\u2019s a long story \u2013 just blame it on my hair and LA traffic. Anywho, what is clear is that none of the boys there deserve to suffer the abuse, and in some cases murder, they are subjected to at the Nickel Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After meeting in the lunch room, Elwood and Turner quickly form a friendship that helps sustain them in those harsh conditions as they consider ways of getting out of the school and whether or not that\u2019s even possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, that\u2019s all in the way of a description you\u2019re getting from me. I used to write movie reviews in the school paper when I was in college. I look back at those now and realize I basically told the whole movie in my review. Now I think it\u2019s better to keep some things left unsaid. No spoiler alerts needed here &#8212; at least I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Review<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Whew, where do I begin? First of all, to give you a better understanding of how I review movies, know that I am not a cinephile. I am not the one who can reference some obscure, arthouse film from 1972 to marvel about its innovation in, I don\u2019t know, name something. &nbsp;Basically, if it hasn\u2019t been shown in my local multiplex or on TV, I most likely haven\u2019t seen it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pulling from my mental dossier of films I <em>have<\/em> seen, I must say this movie is truly like nothing I\u2019ve ever seen before. The director\u2019s style is so singular it\u2019s hard to compare it. But, if I had to, I would say it\u2019s like a cross between a <em>Shawshank Redemption<\/em> or an <em>Unbroken<\/em> and <em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em>. And when I say <em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em>, I only mean in its atypical style, not substance. Though I could be off the mark on this one given I haven\u2019t seen that movie since it came out in 2004. Likewise, I only mentioned the former two movies due to subject matter, not storytelling, as I think those movies have superb storytelling qualities, an area in which I think <em>Nickel Boys<\/em> is lacking. Interestingly enough, I was watching <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7R_vTEEyxoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Life<\/a><\/em>, starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence today on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bouncetv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Bounce<\/a> and there were quite a few similarities between the two movies. I wonder if Whitehead or Ross was inspired by <em>Life<\/em> in their writing and filmmaking process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From what I can gather, RaMell Ross is first a photographer obsessed, for a lack of a better word, with images and how they influence how people see themselves, view their place in the world, as well as how other people view them. He seems to be someone who believes a picture is worth a thousand words and there are stories to be told through the images alone that need no further explanation. Perhaps that\u2019s why this film comes across as a live-action collage of sorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most notable departure <em>Nickel Boys<\/em> makes from your traditional viewing experience is the way it\u2019s shot. Ross and his cinematographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6161200\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jomo Fray<\/a> call it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/sentient\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sentient<\/a> (I had to look that up) or point-of-view (POV) perspective. The purpose being to create an immersive experience where you supplant yourself into the character\u2019s shoes, instead of simply being an observer. What that means is throughout the movie, you often don\u2019t see the main characters faces. You just hear their voices and the camera serves as their eyes, which means your eyes are supposed to serve as their eyes as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This shooting style, however, didn\u2019t work for me and I\u2019ll tell you why.&nbsp; Maybe it\u2019s because I went into it not knowing that this was the shooting style they had chosen. When I came in late, the first scene I saw featured Elwood\u2019s grandmother Hattie, played by Ellis-Taylor, talking directly to the camera. It was several scenes later that I realized she was talking to Elwood and not me as an audience member. Since this POV shooing style is only employed with the two main characters, it left me longing to see their faces, their reaction, their disposition as they were experiencing life rather than merely hearing their voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t think watching a movie is an immersive experience \u2013 it is, by its very nature, observational. No matter how good the acting is or the camera work is, I\u2019m acutely aware that I\u2019m in a seat in a theater with other people, or I\u2019m at home surrounded by my own things. I\u2019m aware that I\u2019m not there. It\u2019s hard to suspend reality for something on a two-dimensional screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of feeling like I was more immersed into the scene by this shooting style, I was more aware that the people that I was watching were actors, good actors, but actors nonetheless. Thankfully, when the boys were together, this shooting style wasn\u2019t such a challenge as I could see both of their faces like normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s more, this film is also peppered with scenes that don\u2019t fit neatly into the overall story line. One thing I\u2019ve learned about screenwriting is that every word, line, scene written in the script is prime real estate. There is no room, time or even budget for the superfluous. Basically, if a movie spends a noticeable amount of time on something, that\u2019s usually a huge indicator that it has meaning that will make sense sooner or later in the movie. Not so in this case.&nbsp; There\u2019s the random appearance of a donkey in the hallway that Turner pets. In another scene we see Turner deep underwater in a pool watching Elwood\u2019s legs dangling in the water while he sits at the pools edge. In yet another scene there\u2019s an alligator that appears in a classroom. None of these scenes had a meaning that was ever inferred or explained. Those are just a few scenes I can remember that were given no meaning, leaving the audience to figure it out on your own or look it up. At least I don\u2019t there was a discernable meaning. I did, after all, nod off a couple times, so it could be I just missed it. But that seems to be Ross\u2019s style. He seems to leave blanks on purpose and want you to fill them in. It\u2019s just another way this movie leaves things unsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, I think the storytelling is the aspect of the film that suffered the most from this avant-garde style of moviemaking. The incorporation of actual news footage from that time period, archival photos from the actual reform school the movie was based on, the insertion of scenes from the 1958 movie <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fBrw8dmgarM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Defiant Ones<\/a><\/em>, along with the POV perspective used to shoot the film, left little room for social and environmental context to develop fluidly, resulting in a patchwork of scenes that were at times not just incongruous, but also unnecessarily mysterious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now don\u2019t get me wrong, the movie is art. It is indeed\u2026I\u2019ll even venture to say a masterful work of art. However, it is put together in such a way that you spend so much time looking at or admiring the art of it all or trying to understand the art of it all, that the story can get lost in the fray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Q&amp;A and Reception<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a few clips from the Q&amp;A session:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"320\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 568 \/ 320;\" width=\"568\" controls src=\"https:\/\/shirscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RaMell-Ross-talks-Nickel-Boys.mov\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">During the Q&#038;A session after the &#8220;Nickel Boys&#8221; screening, Director RaMell Ross talks about his meeting with Producers Jeremy Kleiner (top, far left) and Dede Gardner (not pictured) that got him involved with movie.  This producing duo has been behind other critically-acclaimed films including &#8220;Moonlight&#8221;, &#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221; and &#8220;Selma&#8221; to name a few. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The reception is always my most anticipated and most dreaded part of attending one of these events. It\u2019s the most anticipated because I\u2019m always excited to see what kind of free food they\u2019ll be serving. Sometimes there\u2019s a full-on feast. This one had small bites. But hey, free food is free food. It\u2019s the food that helps me balance out the dreaded part \u2013 the part where I\u2019m forced to talk to strangers, all of whom seem to have come in groups or with at least one other person, while I attended alone. Thankfully, I usually attract somebody to talk to. Even if I don\u2019t want their company, I\u2019m still grateful that they\u2019ve filled a void. &nbsp;This time, however, nobody was coming up to me. It was like I was invisible or ostracized. Either way, I remained alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To combat the awkwardness, I did my normal routine in these situations. I got a drink at the bar (sparkling water this time, I\u2019m just not that into wine and they always have wine) and kept an eye out for the servers to grab hors d&#8217;oeuvres from their trays. After five long minutes or so of nobody talking to me, I realized I would have to be the one to initiate contact this time. With, a drink in one hand, a mini baguette sandwich in the other, I eventually just blurted out, \u201cDid you like the movie?\u201d to a random black woman walking by. There was a solid number of black folks at this event, but we were not the majority. Thankfully, she stopped and answered me, and a conversation ensued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we stood there talking, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor passed by behind the woman. Other people were around her ready to engage in conversation when she tapped the woman on the shoulder before saying, \u201cThanks for coming\u201d while looking at us both.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you, Aunjanue,\u201d I replied. She smiled and continued on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman I was talking to turned to her and responded as well. When she turned back to me, her eyes were big and she said, \u201cI can\u2019t believe she touched me.\u201d I wanted to tell her that I\u2019d actually taken a picture with her back in January when I went to a screening of the movie <em>Origin<\/em> that she starred in. But I thought better of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We resumed our conversation about <em>Nickel Boys<\/em> instead. She liked it, loved it in fact, thought it was beautiful. I couldn\u2019t deny its artistry.&nbsp; I then asked her about the ending. She shared her thoughts. I shared mine before she asked me what I thought of the movie overall. I told her I didn\u2019t like it, and went on to say how I wasn\u2019t into these struggle bus black movies we\u2019ve seen so much of over the last decade or so (not that these films shouldn\u2019t be made, I just think there\u2019s a disproportionate amount of them). I\u2019d rather see more stories about black boy joy, I explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then she was like, \u201cbut what about their friendship?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I was like, \u201cThe friendship was cool, but I\u2019d prefer it in a different setting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then she was like, \u201cThen why did you come to this screening?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I was like, \u201cBecause I couldn\u2019t tell how heavy it was from the trailer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That she understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometime during our conversation, I\u2019d noticed that the director had entered the room. He didn\u2019t get far from the exit of the screening room before he was surrounded by people asking him questions. I was about to become one of them. Making my way over to him, I told the woman I was going to ask the director about the ending and we parted ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I arrived at where he was, there were several people standing around him, in particular a tall white man who looked to be in his mid to late fifties and a short Asian woman who looked to be around the same age. The white man was busy talking to him when I showed up, and I stood by quietly listening\u2026or pretending to listen, because truth be told, I really couldn\u2019t hear much of what he was saying. The white man didn\u2019t talk long after I arrived, and the Asian woman quickly took over. Again, I stood quietly, taking in what I could of their conversation, but also taking in the director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was much taller than I anticipated. I\u2019m 5\u20198\u201d which I know is considered tall for a woman. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that tall, yet I\u2019m often amazed at how often I can see over people\u2019s heads \u2013 male and female \u2013 in a crowded space, or see all the way to the back of the room at my height. So I guess the fact that I not only couldn\u2019t look over his head, but also had to tilt my eyes up to look at him caught my attention. He had to be around 6\u20195, 6\u20196.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Asian woman continued on \u2013 she talked much longer than the white man \u2013 she began to look familiar to me. Then she mentioned something about being a professor. That\u2019s when I chimed in, \u201cat USC.\u201d She said yes. It came back to me that I\u2019d seen her at one of these things before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re a professor too?\u201d RaMell Ross said to me in that question\/statement sort of way. He\u2019s a professor himself at Brown University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOh no, no, no, no,\u201d I said, my insecurity at the thought of me being a professor shining bright with each successive no. Though I\u2019ll have you know, one of my secret dream jobs is to be a professor, even if only a visiting professor for a year or a semester, I\u2019d be happy to do it. The three main characters of the one and only screenplay I\u2019ve ever written so far all teach at a university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was sort of loud in that room. The Asian woman was standing closer to him than I was, so I couldn\u2019t fully hear what she was saying. Only bits and pieces made its way to my ears. At some point while waiting, I got nervous, and when the Asian woman sensed that she may have been talking too long, and offered for me to jump in instead, I declined gesturing for her to finish\u2014a move I would later regret. What I could make out is that at one point they were talking about professorial things, the technicalities of moviemaking \u2013 not my wheelhouse. Next thing I knew, he brought me into the conversation asking about someone named Kristen Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have no idea who that is.\u201d I had to admit. But the Asian woman said she knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCameraperson,\u201d he said matter-of-factly, as if that would clarify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never heard of it,\u201d I conceded. Again the Asian woman confirmed her knowledge of this cameraperson business. Later when I got home I googled both <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirsten_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kristen Johnson<\/a> and <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jx52F4iLTL8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cameraperson<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, Ross continued on with his thought, the only difference is now both he and the Asian woman were looking at me as well as each other when they spoke. I had effectively made my way into the conversation though I wasn\u2019t speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then, their chatter ended. Finally, it was my turn. I gave him a brief description of a scene from the movie\u2019s ending so he would know exactly which part I was talking about, then asked, \u201cwhat did that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat do <em>you<\/em> think it meant?\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as I was fixing my mouth to tell him my thoughts, a loud, \u201cHey!\u201d rose up from behind him. He turned around to see who it was and responded in kind. From there, a boisterous conversation filled with familiarity ensued. One involving him and whoever those folks were behind him \u2013 not me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No worries, I initially thought. I\u2019ll just wait. He\u2019ll turn back around eventually. In the meantime, the Asian woman and I started talking. She didn\u2019t remember me and was curious where I had met her before. I told her it was another movie screening. She was a documentarian filmmaker, and like our last encounter, she began telling me about her journey to secure funding for her film. I stood there talking to her\u2026well, like before, mostly her talking to me, for about 20 or 30 minutes. The whole time Ross was still there, just behind us, with his back still to me, talking to the folks that said, hey. I\u2019m not sure how long it was into those 20 or 30 minutes that I realized he wasn\u2019t going to turn back around. That he\u2019d either forgotten about me, just didn\u2019t care to finish our conversation or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps I should have hung around longer, waited until his conversation died down, then approached him again. Afterall, the reception was still going, food was still being passed out, and I had nowhere else to be. There was a good chance I would have gotten another opportunity to talk to him. But I didn\u2019t have the wait in me. And after approaching him once, I wasn\u2019t going to approach him again. It was time for me to leave. 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