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.