By sticking close to them, and filming through the victim’s own smoke-fogged eyes, Jenkins makes their perspective paramount. The same murder that white revelers voluntarily consume as a twisted form of entertainment constitutes a trauma for Black witnesses who have no choice but to look. Look deeper, though, and the harrowing scene reveals itself an incisive response to pop culture that fetishizes Black people’s pain without acknowledging the psychological impact of such depictions. This could be yet another graphic reenactment of Black suffering under slavery, crafted by well-meaning Hollywood types as a reminder-to an implied audience of similarly well-meaning white people with unfeasibly poor memories-of historical racism.
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