The Invisible Man, Trigger Warnings, and the Art of Listening and Learning
How do we process difficult content, and what is our responsibility to ourselves and each other?
A few weeks ago, just before it cleaned house at the Oscars, we screened Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite in the Intro to Film Studies class I assistant teach at the University of Iowa. As we were setting up the screening, the other TA asked if I thought we should give a ‘trigger warning’ for the film’s content. My immediate reaction was to scoff. “For Parasite?
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