By james art 
The Nickel Boys movie gives a terrifying perspective on the story
Aumanue Ellis-Taylor nominee (King Richard) in a film adaptation of the 2019 Colson WhiteHead novel The Nickel Boys.
A film based on the Arthur G. G. Dosier school in North Florida received two Oscar nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards.
The Nickel Boys movie is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Award winner by Kolson Whitehead. He tells the story of a black teenager growing up in the 1960s, who is wrongly accused of stealing a car and sent to the Nickel Academy-thoughtful reform modeled after the actual state institution. They approved $ 20 million to go to approximately 400 survivors – many blacks – for physical, mental or sexual abuse that occurred between 1940 and 1975 at the school of dosiere in Mariana and another school in Ocechobi.
A number of students who attended the school for reform during this time have died since then – and some have never left alive.
“Nickel Boys”, which has times until Wednesday at AMC Tallahassee 20, includes actual news videos and archaeological photos documenting the horrors at Dozier, said Ramel Ross, director and co -author.
“One of the biggest goals for making films like this and telling these stories in this way is less for me the idea that if we don’t know, then we will repeat,” Ross says in an interview with Talahasi. a month. “It’s more about the distraction of the basic trust and optimism of the people in themselves and in the people around them.”
People “accept that (others) are not fanatical or racist or selfish or self -preservation to the extent that he undermines the future of other people,” he continued. “It is less not to repeat themselves more for people who do not take for granted how wicked or how bad people will be when you allow them to be.”
It was his first time in the area – the movie was filmed in Louisiana – and Ross said he hoped the locals would take away what everyone else did.
“Know it will not be forgotten,” he said. “Maybe if people are interested in forgetting, they are confronted with the fact that” not on our watch. ” “
The movie was shot from the point of view of his main characters: Elvud Curtis, teenager Talahasi and Jack Turner, who becomes his friend at Nickel Academy.
“What inspired him? I think it’s just a sense of interruption between himself and what one sees in the movies, as well as the lack of recognition of someone’s subjectivity in the mainstream visual culture,” Ross said.
“You shoot from my eyes, but you also shoot from the eyes of the character, you also shoot from (Jomo Fry, the cinematographer) eyes,” he added. “They are all” black subjectivity “. “
The presentation of Academy Awards is scheduled for March 2. Nickel Boys has been nominated in the best photo and best adapted categories of scripts.
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