Director: Ryan Coogler Protagonists: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer
Police Brutality. The past few years that has been a word that nearly everyone knows. Starting in 2014 we heard day after day about a person of color (specifically blacks) being beaten down and facing death.
This movie was able to portray one event that shows what is happening now. Oscar Grant III was treated in an inhumane way. He was pushed around and shot. His life was taken because people thought too much of the position they were given.
Events like this haven't just started, it has been happening for years. But within recent years, most people will remember Eric Garner, an unarmed man held in a chokehold by an officer after a report of Garner selling loose cigarettes. Even after repeatedly saying "I can't breathe" he was still held down and died. Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who was shot by an officer even though his hands were in the air. Tamir Rice, a teenager playing with a toy BB gun and was shot by police after he "grabbed for his toy pistol" when he was ordered to put his hands up. There are so many more deaths and many are similar to the death of Oscar.
Fruitvale is a great movie because it doesn't hold back from the truth. The scene where Oscar is on the ground, his face crushing into the cement and the pain he was experiencing just from his facial expression made everything even more heartbreaking. You can't know what is like for those in this situation unless you have experienced it yourself which makes scenes like this even more powerful.
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