Marcus Scribner

Nah, that is the easy way out. It's a movie by a white guy about the suffering
of a black family, aka trauma porn*. I think people saw that a mile away,
and were turned off. Not to mention the film had no major stars, and in the
end all you've got is another indie project with perhaps good intentions but
no audience.


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*Trauma porn is media that showcases a group’s pain and trauma in excessive
amounts for the sake of entertainment.
 
Nah, that is the easy way out. It's a movie by a white guy about the suffering
of a black family, aka trauma porn*. I think people saw that a mile away,
and were turned off. Not to mention the film had no major stars, and in the
end all you've got is another indie project with perhaps good intentions but
no audience.


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*Trauma porn is media that showcases a group’s pain and trauma in excessive
amounts for the sake of entertainment.

Honestly, this is kinda true.

I think we’re all kind of tired of seeing movies of Black people with abusive/absent fathers, long-suffering mothers, and struggling. Those stories have been told ad nauseam, and if you aren’t going to add anything new or fresh to it, it’s kinda been done. The Black experience isn’t a monolith. There’s so many other stories to tell.

Then, couple that with the fact that is was **written** & directed by a white man who has no real understanding of these problems outside of his own stereotypical observations, and it just gets even more murky and problematic.

Maybe in the late 90s and early 2000s when real Black stories were just breaking through, but this has been done so much by now.

I may still check it out just for Marcus, though.
 
"Then, couple that with the fact that is was **written** & directed
by a white man who has no real understanding of these problems
outside of his own stereotypical observations, and it just gets even
more murky and problematic."


This, x1000 - I missed that the dude wrote it, too. Great point!

"I may still check it out just for Marcus, though."

This, x2 (sorry.) One review I read mentioned, in passing, how great
the shower scene was. Was is SpongeMarc showing his Scribcakes?


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