hard to watch, but its always gripping.Just as real world issues have always inspired art, this film is very topical. Many of the current issues America is facing are addressed, and its powerful.Keep an eye on Diggs and Casal. I wouldn't be surprised if they get an Oscar nod for Best Original Screenplay. And even if not, they did an absolutely brilliant job writing this film, and I hope for more from them like this.Go watch this film. You won't regret it.

scrapers, the neighborhoods, and of course the A's, the Warriors, and the Raiders. Blindspotting definitely appeals to the Bay Area niche but it also has a larger universal appeal for anyone living in an urban area.This movie was so well written, directed, and acted--they hit the trifecta. The center focus was the two main characters, Collin Daveed Diggs , who is an African-American male on probation and Miles Rafael Casal , who is a white male that is Collin's best friend and a bit of a loose canon. The dynamics between them was so fascinating and illustrated so well: a black man trying to be straight and having to be extra careful and a white man who is almost completely reckless yet not having the same fears.But the movie tackled more than that. It covered gentrification, police brutality, living as a black felon and living as a white male who's just a product of his environment. It deftly handled all of these sensitive and delicate topics without offending the sensibilities or coming off trite. There was some powerful imagery, some powerful situations and even more powerful dialogue. The script was clever, intelligent and so spot on. Blindspotting is Oakland's Do the Right Thing, or Boyz n the Hood, or even more appropriate--Good Will Hunting.This has been the best movie I've seen this year and that's saying a lot. I hope the writers, Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, get their due recognition as well as the director Carlos Lopez Estrada. This movie could not have been easy to pull off and I think they all did a magnificent job.

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on his last three days of parole, and he's really hoping to start a fresh new life for himself when he's done. He works with his best friend Miles Casal , at a moving job in Oakland. While Collin is trying to leave his violent troubled life behind him, Miles who's white seems to keep seeking out trouble. To complicate things even more Collin also witness a white police officer Ethan Embry shoot and kill a black man in the streets one night, while he's out after his curfew. This continues to haunt him. The movie is funny, and it's two lead characters are both likable in very different ways and relatable also in very different ways . Collin is definitely the more likable of the two, but the film also does a pretty good job of depicting Miles' troubles as well, in an equally sympathetic way. The movie is a really well made buddy flick, that also has a large amount of really insightful and intriguing social commentary too that's very fitting to today's most common headlines . It's definitely a film worth seeing in my opinion.