Images of alligators appear all throughout Nickel Boys, and there’s a really dark history behind this visual symbolism. Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel The Nickel Boys, the film takes place in Jim Crow-era Florida, where a young Black man is arrested for hitchhiking in a stolen car and taken to an internally segregated reform school. Director RaMell Ross shot the movie from a first-person point-of-view, giving the audience an immersive perspective of the racial prejudice and injustice faced by the lead characters.
Ben Sherlock
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What The Alligators Mean In Nickel Boys
Why are there so many alligators in Nickel Boys?
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