2:19. Police brutality is a violent reflection of these ideologies that have continued in our society despite the laws in place that afford inalienable rights to all citizens in our country. This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Plot Keywords That path to a better life takes another more major bump that evening as he and Sophina take the BART into San Francisco to ring in the new year, that specific bump happening in an incident at Fruitvale Station in Oakland on their way home. The film shows Grant and his girlfriend Sophina arguing about Grant's recent infidelity. This perfectly conveys the ideology of the brute or thug black male that the officers thought they were dealing with. While dealing drugs comes with high risk to all that choose to participate and black people do not participate in this at a higher rate than their counterparts, there is an alarmingly disproportionate amount of black males incarcerated for dealing substances such as marijuana than there are white males. It is estimated that one in three black men in the US today will be incarcerated at some point in their lifetimes; a report by one activist organisation has claimed that a black man was killed by police, security guards or self-appointed vigilantes every 28 hours in 2012. Oscar Grant is portrayed as a family man living in a low-income neighborhood and displays his daily efforts to remove his family from poverty. Ryan Coogler on the BART platform at Fruitvale, where Oscar Grant III was killed. Grant later attends a birthday party for his mother, Wanda, and agrees to take the BART train to see fireworks and other New Year's festivities in San Francisco since she is worried about him driving.. Taglines Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents. "Fruitvale Station" The True Story. Black Lives Matter Collection. Thu 5 Jun 2014 16.31 EDT. This film follows Grant and his last days before the shooting on New Years Day. At the beginning of the film, Sophina pleads Oscar to stop dealing marijuana. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 34, 2016, pp. The film Fruitvale Station, directed and written by Ryan Coogler is a story based on the death of Oscar Grant. 26, no. Shot on location in Oakland, Fruitvale Station, the feature debut of director Ryan Coogler, takes place on the last day of Grants life. Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Although Oscar acknowledges the fact that dealing illegal drugs is undoubtedly a risky form of income, he feels as though his hand is forced due to his recent termination from his job at a grocery store. In context, though, it is part of a significant historical story. 2013 | R | 1h 25m | Movies Based on Real Life. After premiering at Sundance, the film was at the center of a distribution bidding war. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale station was his first feature film. The officer who killed Grant was charged with involuntary manslaughter and served a mere 11 months in jail, claiming he mistook his gun for his taser. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year's Eve, being a better partner to his girlfriend Sophina and a better father to Tatiana, their beautiful four-year-old daughter. 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