#Yes there's Rashomon but this isn't about competing memories of the same event

[chicago-geniza]

Woke up still thinking about this Nickel Boys. It's really astoundingly good. Thinking like Stefania there are things re: interiority & novelistic perspective that I did not know could be conveyed through a cinematic medium--entirely through images, no voiceover, minimal dialogue, no exposition, all "showing," no telling, totally a synthesis between montage (film technique) and stream of consciousness (literary technique). The sequence when Elwood hears his grandmother mention Selma, then at breakfast the camera-eye looks down at his arm, at his skin, then an unremarkable street scene, but we notice for the first time, along with him, that some people are Black and some people are white, the dawning awareness of race makes us realize that all his previous memories take place in a self-contained, segregated, solely Black world he never questioned and never thought to question. There are so many other things to highlight but this is right at the beginning and stunned me because I did not know!!! Film could do that!!!