Or maybe ayou-are-Elwoodfeeling is more accurate.
Then you realize: This is an extended first-person perspective.
And were going to do more than just walk a mile in Elwoods shoes over the next two-and-a-half hours.
Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson in ‘Nickel Boys.‘Orion Pictures
Were going to intimately and uncomfortably experience everything along with him.
There is simply nothing else like it.
The vehicle turns out to have been stolen.
His life is interrupted regardless.
Then, one day at lunch, a new student begins talking to Elwood.
Familiar, and likely with a comfortable enough distance not to truly leave someone shook to the core.
That is not theNickel Boysthat Ross has delivered unto us.
There is little-to-no safe space between us and them onscreen.
And it couldnt feel more necessary or vital at this moment in time.
