Thank you for Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler. You crafted a movie that takes this seemingly hopeless, sad, and anger-inducing story and imbued HOPE. You and your band of actors (Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melanie Diaz and more) infused more nuance and authenticity then I could of ever hoped for. The constant interlacing of all of Oscar Grant’s different world’s set such a powerful platform for his final moments. It was so refreshing to watch something so realistic not just in facts but also in humanity. Thank you for delivering a film that also takes time to showcase the beauty in OUR boys and girls that is not often shown. Scenes that could of been cliché and forced were exactly the opposite. It was extremely powerful and extremely beautiful.
I can’t get that haunting scene with Oscar and the dog out of my mind today. Too often our young people…
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