Director RaMell Ross and DP Jomo Fray take a deep dive into their film’s bold visual approach, which compels viewers to experience an abusive Jim Crow–era reform school through the eyes of its victims.
The conceit, executed through innovative first-person POV cinematography, makes this searing adaptation of Colson Whitehead ’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel feel like no other movie. The opening act follows teenager Elwood Curtis , whose day-to-day life with his adoring grandmother, Hattie , in Jim Crow–era Tallahassee is punctured after he is falsely accused of a crime. Curtis lands in the abusive, segregated reform school known as Nickel Academy .
You have Elwood watching and wanting to know from somewhat of a distance until he comes in, and then they both start speaking with one another. Ross: I love that, because it emphasizes the world going on outside of the camera’s presence. Even though the camera was creeping toward Hattie, Hattie doesn’t look at the camera, doesn’t look at Elwood; it’s traditional camera language.
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