In the new movie “Blindspotting,” two childhood best friends navigate their changing hometown and their problematic relationship.
Carlos López Estrada’s film has been earning raves for its depiction of an intersectional community looking to define itself against police oppression, bias and gentrification.
The most crucial scene in “Blindspotting” is a painful confrontation between leads Colin (Daveed Diggs), who is black, and Miles (Rafael Casal), who is white, after they flee a house party thrown by a lily-white tech guru who has planted roots in an Oakland legacy neighborhood.
Miles violently beats a black male partygoer who mocks him because he with the same flow and vernacular of many Oakland residents and behaves with the same recklessness and aggression as many of his non-white counterparts.