CNN ‘The way we shot the film is point of view, which means that the audience is the character’: RaMell Ross on ‘Nickel Boys’ Posted: February 5, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 ...

A shot-reverse shot is a film editing technique that takes two separate shots—usually a medium or a close-up—and cuts them together to appear as if a continuous conversation is happening.

His second film, Nickel Boys, attempts a visual artist’s feat: a feature shot entirely from the first-person point of view. Every decade, it seems, first-person camerawork reemerges in film.

The director of the Academy Award-nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel sees his movie as a chance to touch the inner lives of young men who suffered the cruelty of the Jim Crow South ...