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‘Nickel Boys’ Is a Bold Experiment in Perspective

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Summary
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63% Informative

Nickel Boys is an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel, a fictionalized account of a real Florida -panhandle reform school whose staff abused and in some cases murdered its charges.

Director RaMell Ross , a photographer turned documentarian now making his scripted feature debut, takes an entirely different tack in approaching this hefty material.

Nickel Boys is perhaps a rebuke to the idea that violence must be plainly stated in order to be understood.

What Ross affords these young men is the dignity of a point of view, drawing the viewer into the bracing immediacy of mind and body.

It’s an immersion into two lives that evokes the histories of countless more.

VR Score

68

Informative language

70

Neutral language

39

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

52

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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no external sources

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