Will Smith’s Performance of a Nigerian Doctor in Concussion Is Subversively Not Entertaining

American football is currently in the midst of an existential crisis. Awareness of the impact of head injuries casts an increasingly long shadow on America's most popular sport. What it means to play or support the game is an increasingly morally fraught question.
Concussion wades into this conversation scared to say too much of anything. Starring Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian-born Pittsburgh coroner who first put the puzzle pieces together on the impact that football has on the