The Oscar candidate who uses the most common formal filigree on TikTok

The always laughable anti-woke conspiracy mob is wrong in pointing out Nickel boys As the African-American share of the 10 nominees for best film at this year's Oscars, it is, rather, the experimental exception. By far the most formally risky of all the films in competition. It is filmed entirely in subjective camera, it alternates the protagonists' points of view without over-explanations, it has a complex structure with flashforwards and sometimes repeated scenes, displays a string of images of a much more sensorial and impressionistic character than narrative... All this makes this brave adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel that won the Pulitzer in 2019 fits much better into an ideal of poetry-cinema than prose-cinema. Not bad (in fact, very good!) for a film that will receive such massive public exposure.

Let no one be afraid, however. Gone should be the days of the uncomfortable cage that was a first-person narrative in cinema regarding The Lady of the Lake (Robert Montgomery's pioneering film is from 1946), now that TikTok has a photo gallery of videos in POV [subjective point of view] format. Like on this social network, but with a thousand times more sensitivity and lyricism, this resource serves to Nickle boys to empathize in an extremely immersive way with the protagonists of a great story of friendship born in a context of injustice that, beyond the formal challenge (or precisely thanks to it) ends up being emotionally shocking.

Colson Whitehead: "This book is born out of helplessness, because racism is still alive and unpunished"