History Film / Blindspotting

* SaltAndPepper: Miles and Collin. White and black, respectively.

''Blindspotting'' is a [[BuddyPicture buddy]] {{dramedy}} that is as much a story of its setting, the city of Oakland, as it is its two central characters, Collin Hoskins and Miles Turner. After getting released on probation, Collin, played by Creator/DaveedDiggs, finds work with his old best friend Miles, played by Rafael Casal, as a mover. However, this grants them a front row seat to the gentrification of the city that raised them, as both this and the growing UsefulNotes/BlackLivesMatterMovement begin to pull at their friendship. [[WrittenByCastMember Written by Diggs and Casal]], and directed by Carlos López Estrada, what follows is a raw loveletter to their city in all its tense duality.

* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Miles's son has found the gun and points it directly at his own face, and the assembled adults try to get him to put it down without scaring him into pulling the trigger.]]

->'''Collin''' When you look at me now, do you always see [[TragicMistake the fight]] first?

A spinoff series of the same name, focused on Creator/JasmineCephasJones' character Ashley from the original film, premiered on Creator/{{Starz}} in June 2021. Casal and Diggs return as creators and writers, with Casal reprising his role as Miles.

A spinoff series of the same name, focused on Creator/JasmineCephasJones' character Ashley from the original film, premiered on Creator/{{Starz}} in June 2021. Casal and Diggs return as creators and writers, though of the two's film characters, only Miles appears in the series.

* ConfirmationBias: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Collin and Val while he's helping her study for her psychology class. The way bias warps our perception, causing two people to see the same events completely differently, is a central theme of the film.

* HollywoodGenetics: Miles is a white guy and his wife is a very light-skinned black woman, but their son is darker than both of them.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The film ends of a jokey note, but Miles and Collin friendship has still been shaken, Collin and Val will never reconcile. A murderous police officer has been shamed, and his family has left him, but he will presumably never get justice, nor will the many other black men seen by Collin in his daydream]].

* ToneShift: [[spoiler: Collin witnessing the killing of a fleeing black man by a police officer heralds a sudden dark turn to what was up-until-then, a fairly light slice-of-life comedy]]