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Title cards at the end describe the aftermath: Grant's killing sparked a series of protests and riots across the city after several witnesses recorded the incident with cellphones and video cameras. Grant is rushed to the hospital and dies shortly after emergency surgery. A stunned Caruso demands to know what happened. While being restrained by officers Caruso and Ingram, he is shot in the back by Ingram. Grant is among the passengers the BART police attempt to arrest. This causes a man Grant knew in prison to notice him, and a fight breaks out.
On the return train, Katie, a customer at the grocery store where Grant used to work, recognizes Grant and calls out his name. Grant later attends a birthday party for his mother, Wanda, and agrees to take the BART train to see fireworks and other New Year's festivities in San Francisco since she worries about him driving. He briefly considers selling some marijuana but decides to dump the stash.
He unsuccessfully attempts to get his job back at a grocery store. Grant and his girlfriend Sophina argue about Grant's recent infidelity. The movie begins with the actual footage of Grant and his friends being detained by BART Police at the Fruitvale station in Oakland on January 1, 2009, at 2:15 a.m., right before the shooting. The film depicts the last day of the life of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old from Hayward, California, before he was fatally shot by BART Police in the early morning hours of January 1, 2009. It was released in theaters on July 12, 2013. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Film. įruitvale Station debuted under its original title, Fruitvale, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. Melonie Diaz, Ahna O'Reilly and Octavia Spencer also star. Jordan as Grant, with Kevin Durand and Chad Michael Murray playing the two BART police officers involved in Grant's death, although their names were changed for the film. It is Coogler's feature directorial debut and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man killed in 2009 by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale district station in Oakland. While that’s not necessarily a bad thing, with the weight of the impending shooting there’s a constant longing that you’d just wish they’d get on with it and get to the good part.Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. The issue is that for the first hour not a whole lot happens, as it’s just a lot of good actors wandering around interacting with each other. He is a good man, but one who is willing to do bad things in order to help out himself and his family. Writer/director Ryan Coogler and his leading man to a great job of shading Oscar with layers of grey, neither painting him a hero he believes himself to be, nor the bad guy that anyone on the outside might perceive him to be. He’s just been fired from his job, his sister needs help paying rent, it’s his mother’s (Octavia Spencer) birthday… all these costs are adding up, and he’s got drugs to potentially sell, but that’s how he winded up in prison just two years previously. His relationship with his girlfriend Sophina (Melanie Diaz) is on rocky ground due to his wandering eye, but their united love for their daughter might be enough to heal that wound. Beginning with footage of the true-life event of the shooting of Oscar Grant in the very first few hours of 2009, we then go back 24 hours to the beginning of New Year’s Eve, with Oscar (Michael B Jordan) about to embark on a day that is hopefully going to set his life back on the right track.
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