3.8.17
Intro to Film Studies
Fruitvale Station
This was an amazing, but depressing film. This film gathers all types of emotions out of the audience because of its story. This film is based off a true story, starring Michael J. Jordan who plays a character named Oscar Grant who is a 22 year-old man and a resident from the Bay Area. One morning, on December 31, 2008 he gets this feeling that he can't describe but he takes it as a brand new start that is given to him to turn his life around. Oscar Grant was a young man that was always in and out of jail, he has a four year-old daughter, and a mother who suffers while he does his time, and each time he says it will be his last time going to jail but usually always ends right back within a couple months of being released. But this time Oscar means it and he tries his best to make a change, for his family and most of all his daughter, he was known for selling drugs, being late to work which caused him to lose the job at a market, and like I said going to jail. But once he got out this last time, he stopped with the selling, he wouldn't even use personal and made his main focus to change and be there for his daughter, he tried to get his old job back because he knew he would need the money, but the boss had already given the job to a much responsible person and wasn't able to give it to Oscar. After not being able to get his job back he had to make excuses to his family because they still believed that he had a job, but eventually he had to come forward with the truth, and yes they were disappointed but as long as he wasn't selling, they accepted it in a more positive way. One night Oscar's baby mother wanted to go out for New Year's Eve, and although he wasn't certain of it he still went, so his mom didn't want him to drive, so she told him to take the train, in order to keep him safe. While Oscar and his friends are on the train, he runs into a fellow friend from the market and she approaches him by shouting his name, and that catches a white mans attention, which happens to be one his fellow prison buddies, This man and Oscar don't get along and left off on bad terms, so they end up getting into a fight, and the police come and put Oscar and his crew aside. They come off really rough on them, and at one point they handcuff Oscar, and pin him face down to the floor, because he was filming the way the officers were treating them and he tried to keep the situation tamed but that didn't work. He was non-violent man, a father, boyfriend and son of innocent people, but one of the officers took it upon themselves to shoot Oscar in his back, which went straight through his chest and caused him to be in critical conditions. As Oscar is laying lifelessly on the ground, he repeatedly says "I have a daughter," you can tell he was truly trying to change for his family, but ended up not getting the chance to do so because his past caught up to him, and ended up leaving him to die.
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