Can anyone name Black Movies in the past 30 years that aren't Trauma Porn?

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Trauma Porn as in:

- I made it out of the gutter Hood movies
- Gang movies
- I suffered from abuse but I made it out ok movies
- Slavery movies
- I was wrongfully accused and was in jail for a decade movies
- Etc etc


Hollywood is not going to do it for us, but it's time to end this genre or at least greatly limit it. If it means supporting more growth of Black Directors and Black screenplay writers, then I'm all for it. Please name them?
 

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Majority of "black" movies are either romance comedies, "I had to sell Crack to get out of the hood" tropes or slave movies (where the slaves continually take Ls). Even if you are going to make a alave movie its never about the Haitan Revolution, or the other nunerous rebellions in the Americas. We need more mainstream black sci-fi, horror, action and fantasy films. That's why I'm glad for Jordan Peele for slowly starting to kick down the door.
 

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I see your point but what's wrong with "trauma porn" in your opinion? I just watched He Got Game the other week and Bamboozled last month. Classic movies IMHO.

Outside of slave stuff and hood stuff, what's the issue? Like "Set it Off", for example. Is that trauma porn/black pain fetish?
 

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I see your point but what's wrong with "trauma porn" in your opinion? I just watched He Got Game the other week and Bamboozled last month. Classic movies IMHO.

Outside of slave stuff and hood stuff, what's the issue? Like "Set it Off", for example. Is that trauma porn/black pain fetish?

People are fukking stupid and full of shyt

They will bytch and moan about ‘one dimensional’ portrayals of black people, roles were black men look like shyt, cry that any form of comedy that isn’t insult/the dozens c00nery but drop all pretense of the aforementioned when it comes to shyt like BMF and anything involving criminality


And the “they only make slave movies!1!1!” trope is fukking tiresome. No, they don’t only make slavery movies. And even if they did they have merit than that comic book bullshyt these sissies salivate over.

“Black trauma porn” gtfo
 

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You for real? It's a comedy but Friday is literally the story of a dude losing his job for being a nikka, getting caught up with a drug dealer, and almost dying like 3 different ways.

A grown man was literally harassed into sharing his bike with a convict named after the crimes he consistently commits.
 

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Trauma Porn as in:

- I made it out of the gutter Hood movies
- Gang movies
- I suffered from abuse but I made it out ok movies
- Slavery movies
- I was wrongfully accused and was in jail for a decade movies
- Etc etc


Hollywood is not going to do it for us, but it's time to end this genre or at least greatly limit it. If it means supporting more growth of Black Directors and Black screenplay writers, then I'm all for it. Please name them?
Boomerang
 
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