The Art, Industry, and Culture Presented on the film Blind Spotting

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Blind Spotting Film
This article presents the cultural, artistic, and industry of one of the films watched, Blindspotting. The 2018 movie directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada. It will also focus on its uniqueness in addressing police racial violence and gentrification in Oakland city, where two of its main characters grew up. It explores how Miles, a white friend to Collin, who struggles to appropriate thuggish behavior as his dreadlocked best friend, who instead grew up in the ghetto culture, uses art to confront the brutality he experiences while still serving the last days of his probation. Several arguments arise on how the film does not solve the problems but instead poses several unanswered questions. With all the arguments, the movie is an appropriate platform to address racial segregation through art instead of creating violence.
Miles and Collin at a Crossroad
Blind Spotting is a Carlos Lopez Estrada-directed half-chore poem, half-social drama film that follows two best friends, Miles (Casal) and Collins (Diggs). It accompanies the lifelong friends in their adjustments to the immediate changes in their lives and town that shaped them. The film's protagonists grew alongside each other, but the gentrifying Oakland and story of the movie finds them at crossroads. Blind Spotting oozes with the Bay Area Vitality as it rattles and booms (Whittle 71). The film bends and bounces; thus, Oakland acts as both a character and backdrop. This writing purposely focuses on the industry at which the movie takes place, the applied art as well as the culture widely portrayed in the film.
Film Distinction
Instead of dramatizing the gore of violence they face, the main actors Casal and Diggs imbue it with a distinct rhythmic cadence. Other films on the same focus on gentrification and police brutality that the characters experience or visualize. Diggs and Casal originate from music and poetry, thus the change of the artistic composition of the film. The poetry of the characters friendliness is a constant refrain. Diggs and Casal speak in a complex lyrical and layered banter. How Collin and Miles wrap language around and through is a reflection of their upbringing. The way they do the same in their challenging moments in life and traumas they faced is also reflective of how they grew up.
Theme of Violence
The movie is set up in a violent environment. A white officer can shoot a black man with no action taken. The black people fight for their rights while the justice system defends the whites. Collin observes a white police fatally shooting a young black man. Collin is not able to react or intervene since he is still serving his probation, and a curfew attendant is hanging over him. He has to run back to his dwelling as court-mandated him after witnessing the shooting. The effects of the scene weigh over him throughout the movie. He goes through nightmares and fights with his best friend, Miles. He also attempts to outrun his demons. Later on, Collin confronts the police officer with a verse instead of violence. Collin is trying his best not to go back to jail by avoiding violent confrontation with the officer (Corey 53). Miles on the other hand, although he has a big heart, he t...