Ross and his co-screenwriter Joslyn Barnes have radically reworked it, trading the book's omniscient perspective for a first-person POV in which the viewer sees the world through the main character's eyes.
Although Elwood Curtis is the protagonist of RaMell Ross' Nickel Boys, we rarely see him so clearly as in that fleeting moment. It's as if King's words have called him into being.
Nickel Boys is a movie of recovery and reclamation, an exhumation of history. Nickel Academy, the reformatory at the center of Whitehead's novel, was inspired by Florida's notorious Dozier School for Boys.
When Elwood gazes up at the sky, lying back in the grass on a warm afternoon, we do too, catching a glimpse of his outstretched arm as his head lolls to the side.
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