Fruitvale Station

March 20, 2014 •
Fruitvale Station
Flicks with The Film Snob
Fruitvale Station

Mar 20 2014 |

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Show Notes

Fruitvale Station is movie that I meant to see when it played in the theaters earlier this year, but ended up not finding the time. Luckily, word of mouth kept it on my radar, so I just saw it on DVD. All I knew before was that it was about a young African-American named Oscar Grant who was shot by San Francisco Bay Area transit police a few years ago. And so I expected it to be melodramatic or maybe even sensationalistic. I was not prepared for the beautifully nuanced, subtle and resonant work that it is. Michael B. Jordan plays…

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