The director of the Oscar-winning movie Till, which is about the lynching of a young black kid in 1950s Mississippi, claimed that she deliberately chose not to depict anti-black violence on screen in order to protect viewers as well as filmmakers and women.
The movie, which starts in theaters next Friday, tells the terrifying true story of Emmett Till's death at the age of 14 and the events that followed through the eyes of his mother, Mamie, who later turned into a reluctant activist and served as an inspiration for the country's larger civil rights movement.
Director Chinonye Chukwu responded, "I'm not interested in displaying physical violence inflicted on black bodies," when asked if she would avoid aiding Hollywood's "exploitation" of violence against African Americans.
“As a black person, I didn’t want to film it and I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t want to put the audience through it or retraumatize myself,” she explained.
