Fruitvale Station (2013)

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Fruitvale Station was released on July 26, 2013, in the USA. The American drama film was produced by Forest Whitaker's Significant Productions. The movie storyline was written and directed by Ryan Coggler. The movie was based on the true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old citizen of the Bay Area, who meets up on the last day of 2008 with acquaintances, rivals, relatives, and strangers.[1]

Plot

An innocent African-American man named Oscar Grant III was heavily shot by the transport police at Fruitvale station on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in San Francisco on the last day of 2008. Quite a few witnesses on their cell phones filmed the shooting. Demonstrations were ignited by the incident, some aggressive.

Michael B Jordan as Oscar Grant III in Fruitvale Station. Photograph: The Weinstein Company/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar[2].

Controversy

In our daily culture, Fruitvale Station is a magnificent portrayal of racism and police misconduct. It's not just Ryan Coogler's successful piece of work, but it's a really big work of art. In the movie, black racism is portrayed when a deranged white transit cop dragged Mr. Grant from the car while the train was stopped in the Fruitvale Station. The cop threw him on the platform and murdered him in the back by shooting. The citizen of San Francisco went rage, though, after a long criminal investigation, the officer served only a year in jail.[3]

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