Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Fruitvale Station

        
    
       The first thing I think of when I see the movie title Fruitvale Station I automatically thought it had something to do with a train or something. But as the movie goes on and you see the true meaning of what point the movie is trying to prove. It's about main character Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) a recovering addict [drug dealer, 'selling trees'] who is trying his hardest to live a clean life and turn himself around for his daughter Tatiana and his baby's mother Sophina. You know what they say when you're in the wrong place at the wrong time But everyone likes to think that everything happens for a reason. On a simple night going to see fireworks with his family [more precisely with his girlfriend and their friends] he ends up in a situation that he shouldn't have been in [explain]

     The day he lost his life will never be forgotten because of the fact that a police officer killed another unarmed black man, which falls back into the stereotypes [sic]. A whole movie based on the last moments of this innocent man's life. On top of it, his girlfriend got to watch her boyfriend die right in front of her for something that happened while he was serving time in jail. 

       I think the life lesson taught from this movie is that you shouldn't give people a reaction when you know you have more than them to lose. It makes you think about how you act towards people around you whether it's from past beef or not. If you have a beautiful daughter and a beautiful girlfriend to live for you start to think about more than just yourself. I would've liked for the movie to be a little longer, maybe explain a little more about Oscar's life and not just the mistakes that he's made. As the movie starts the movie basically ends because it's so self explanatory. 

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