2013 · social-realism · race · police-violence
Fruitvale Station
Directed by Ryan Coogler1h 22m2013
Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.
Our read: Fruitvale Station (2013) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded social-realism · race · police-violence entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme social-realism / race, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
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