The movie is honest about the trauma of rape, but doesn't rely on violently depressing storytelling.
Babbel's language lessons are created by real language experts to help you converse in real-world conversations.Stories about gender-based violence are never easy for audiences to consume, nor should they be. But when told right—without deliberately triggering scenes thoughtlessly sprinkled in just to titillate—they’re deeply important, and can even help viewers who are survivors themselves to heal or process their own experiences.
’s approach to sexual violence—in a manner that avoids trauma porn and minimizing the horrors of rape—is similar to how it handles the other brutal reality at the heart of the film: slavery. There’s no white-washing of the devastating violence of the slave trade, and even the movie’s supposed “good guys” need a lot of convincing by the Agojie to stop participating in it.
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