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One of the year’s best movies was filmed in first person
The creative and technical challenges of shooting a whole movie in first person.
Kathryn Bigelow’s dystopian thriller Strange Days(1995) cut to it when its characters deployed a sci-fi technology to experience other people’s memories; the much-maligned Doom(2005) had a section that paid homage to the POV of its video game origins; Hardcore Henry(2015) proved doing that at feature-length was exhausting. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film alternates between the perspectives of its leads, Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), two Black teenagers who meet at a brutal reformatory school in the Jim Crow South. But even Fray, who came with his own awards and bona fides, found that the POV of Nickel Boys required him to rethink the language of film “on a quantum level.” The two of them were suddenly reconceiving the basic elements of the medium: What is an establishing shot when you’re in first person?
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