'Fruitvale Station'
Bay Area audiences may feel they need no introduction to Oscar Grant III when it comes to "Fruitvale Station," a basedonatruestory film about the young local's last hours on Earth.
The film begins with the infamous cellphone video of Grant's ignominious end in the titular BART station, pointing up that this is what we have seen and mostly http://www.falconsofficialproshop.com/Black+Asante+Samuel+Jersey know of Grant. What follows, in docudramatic form, strives to round out our knowledge of this ordinary 22yearold American male, to return this symbol to his humanity as a son, a grandson, a boyfriend, a father. "Fruitvale Station" tallies the toll of what was lost on New Year's Day 2009.
Starinthemaking Michael B. Jordan ("The Wire," "Friday Night Lights") ably walks a mile in Grant's shoes, conspiring with Coogler to show many facets of their subject. With 4yearold daughter Tatiana (Ariana Neal), girlfriend Sophina Nike Asante Samuel Jersey (Melonie Diaz), and assorted family elders, Oscar radiates love and charm, but in unguarded moments, he reveals his anxiety about making ends meet without getting caught in a parole violation and reliving his nightmare of prisonbound separation from loved ones.
In a flashback to San Quentin (on New Year's Eve day of 2007), Coogler, Jordan and Octavia Spencer (splendid as Grant's mom, Wanda) establish emotional stakes. In what seems at the time, ironically, to be the worstcase scenario, Oscar flashes a volatile temper (which he hasn't entirely conquered in the present) as well as littleboylost remorse toward a mother achingly forcing herself to "tough love" her son.
Here and in the stomachchurning climax, "Fruitvale Station" functions on a gut level. More often, though, it is deliberately mundane. Oscar helps a market customer to prepare for a Southern fish fry. Oscar buys a birthday card for his Asante Samuel Black Jersey mother, and looks forward to a dinner of Grandma Bonnie's gumbo. Oscar parries and thrusts in the bedroom, as he and Sophina fret together and make love together.
Coogler isn't after much more than what naturally comes with his approach: a memorial in dramatic prose, an occasion for cathartic outrage and empathetic grief. And the film only notably stumbles when Coogler strains for clumsy symbolism (Oscar befriends a doomed stray dog hoo boy) and intimations of fate (look how close Oscar came to making it after all!). Socialjustice issues are inherent in Grant's story, but "Fruitvale http://www.falconsofficialproshop.com Station," for better and worse, prefers pure emotional appeal.
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