Two films, both start with a murder with the police involved. Both films are set in the US and are about race, both are cleverly funny at times. Despite the humour the messages around race are clear and hard-hitting. The sound tracks are excellent. Queen and Slim is a road movie, and is lighter in tone. Blindspotting is at times very, very violent and the language is harsh. Both films are also about relationships, loyalty, belonging and identity, solidarity and Blindspotting has a powerful anti-gun theme (although you might not think so to start with). There is a spin-off TV series of Blindspotting that I might take a look at, but I generally find box sets just take a very long time to say what a 98 minute film might say in, yes, 98 minutes. Elder daughter enjoyed both of these movies, Louise found Blindspotting's violence a bit much.
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| Still from Queen and Slim. |
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| Blindspotting poster. |
Both films are on Amazon Prime, but not free.
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