Why airing Black wounds on screen isn’t ‘trauma porn’

I remember the collective sigh of relief among a primarily Black audience that had gathered in a movie theater in the pre-Covid days of 2017 to watch Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning horror film “Get Out.” We all released our breath just after hero Chris Washington (played by then-unknown rising star Daniel Kaluuya) had defeated his treacherous White girlfriend Rose Armitage (played by Allison Williams) who had lured him into a prison set up by her villainous middle-class suburban family.I remember the collective sigh of relief among a primarily Black audience that had gathered in a movie theater in the pre-Covid days of 2017 to watch Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning horror film “Get Out.” We all released our breath just after hero Chris Washington (played by then-unknown rising star Daniel Kaluuya) had defeated his treacherous White girlfriend Rose Armitage (played by Allison Williams) who had lured him into a prison set up by her villainous middle-class suburban family.