10 Movies That Really Stay With You
6. Blindspotting
A stunning and original look at modern day America's issues with race and police brutality; Blindspotting tracks a recently paroled Collin trying to navigate his years probation smoothly. His rough home-town surroundings and his toxic relationship with his boyhood best-friend make things difficult for him to keep clean, and things are confounded even further when Collin witnesses a moment of needless police brutality against a young, black man.
In stark contrast with the heavy-handed approach of Oscar baiting films like Crash, Blindspotting doesn't feel like a movie clamouring for awards. It feels like a movie trying to talk to you. It is a film with a story to tell, a story that needs telling. Collin's morale quandary forces us to consider a society masquerading as progressive. He wants to do the right thing but is he willing to do it at a seemingly inevitable cost for himself at such a precarious time?
Blindspotting discusses modern America's prevalent issues with race and police violence with a subtle grace and artistic flair unseen in film before this. It is a film that raises questions that need asking, questions that will be stuck in your mind for a long time after the film fades out.