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Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross shares 5 films that have influenced him as a film fan and filmmaker
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys tells the story of the powerful friendship between two young African-Americans as they navigate the harrowing ordeals of a Florida reform school together.
A harrowing story about the abuse and mistreatment of young men of color in a reform school
Young Girl Written, created, and produced by Herschel Dwellingham Performed by Frank Lynch, courtesy of Grass of Home Productions and Publishing (KMI).
While I appreciate the ambition behind it, it unfortunately and somewhat paradoxically distances me from the main character
It’s told exclusively from the subjective POV of the main character and a fellow intern he befriends at the school.
Some of the early scenes felt a bit contrived and forced with this technique, the dialogue never quite flowing naturally
Watching it at the Stockholm Film Festival without subtitles was also quite a challenge, as it was very difficult to understand the dialogue in certain scenes.
You could get the gist of the events, but the details were lost on me
Despite these stylistic quibbles, the story was still somewhat engaging, but overall it could have been even more so with a more traditional narrative.
