‘Nickel Boys’ offers different perspective with point of view storytelling [Video]

The new movie “Nickel Boys” offers a shift in perspective on the big screen. The story is an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the friendship between two boys at an abusive reform school. The film shines in its use of the camera as its own character.

Director RaMell Ross offers movie-goers a new way of seeing a film. It’s told with a first-person point of view perspective, allowing us to see the world as the characters would.

“I had this idea, the intent, to me is so meaningful, and so aligns with what I think are the needs of the relationship between the camera and people in general,” said Ross. “I had many challenges, you know, but I was pretty happy that I had the opportunity and was going to do it.”

The story follows two Black teenage boys who are sent to a racist and abusive …