Fruitvale Station is the Bay Area subway stop where, on New Year's Eve 2008, Oscar Grant, a 22 year old black guy was shot and killed by a subway cop.The film paints a pretty positive picture of Grant, a good father, a decent guy. However, that picture takes rather too long to develop, and like most people, Grant's life is fairly tedious.
That is, until New Year's Eve, when he, his girlfriend, and half a dozen other friends take the subway to see San Francisco's New Year's Eve fireworks show. On the way back, Grant gets involved in an altercation with another subway rider, and when that altercation breaks out on onto the platform at Fruitvale, so steam in the uniforms.
While the real life and death drama was played out in our local news media, the film deals sympathetically with the challenges of growing up without money or a white skin.
It was a sad and all too frequent story about life in America, and I really ought to be as sympathetic as the film's director.
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