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Nickel Boys

If everybody looks the other way, then everybody's in on it. If I look the other way, I'm...

Elwood: If everybody looks the other way, then everybody's in on it. If I look the other way, I'm as implicated as the rest.
[Turner is silent]
Elwood: It's not how it's supposed to be.
Turner: Don't nobody care about s'posed to be. The fix's always been in- game is rigged.
Elwood: That's what I'm telling you. It's not like the old days. We can stand up for ourselves.
Turner: Even that shit barely works out there, what do you think it's going to do in here?
Elwood: You say that 'cause you got no one out there sticking up for you. I got my grandmother, I got a lawyer.
Turner: [deliberately hurtful] Yeah? What was the last time you heard from them? You got to watch how people act, what they do, and then you try to figure how to get around them like an obstacle course. I mean, if you want to walk out of here

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If everybody looks the other way
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then everybody's in on it
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If I look the other way I'm as implicated as the rest
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Turner chuckles quietly
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It's not how it's supposed to be
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Turner Don't nobody care about supposed to
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The fix has always been in
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Game's rigged
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That's what I'm telling you
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It's not like the old days
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We can stand up for ourselves
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Man that shit barely works out there
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What you think it's gonna do in here scoffs
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scoffs You say that
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'cause you got no one out there sticking up for you
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I got my grandmother
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I got a lawyer
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Yeah
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When's the last time you heard from them
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Turner chuckles
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You gotta watch how people act
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What they do
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And then try to figure out how to get around them
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like an obstacle course
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I mean if you wanna walk outta here
Duration
75 seconds
Views
162
Timestamp in Movie
00:56:35
Uploaded
Apr 05, 2025
Genres
Production
Orion Pictures,Plan B Entertainment,Louverture Films,Anonymous Content

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Movie Summary

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.