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To the Fruitvale Station

By Jonathan Simor

Thanks to the persistence of my wife who has insisted for some time that as residents of the East Bay we must see it in the theater along with fellow East Bayers, our whole family saw this remarkable film  a couple of weeks ago.  The film moved me to tears and then settled into my imagination where it has been ruminating since.  I'm not sure it is still in theaters, but if it is go see it now and root for writer director Ryan Coogler and The Fruitvale Station to get some Oscar nominations.  As has been well reported the movie takes up the last day of Oscar Grant, a young black East Bay man killed by a BART police officer during a bizarre and confusing encounter in the early hours of New Years day 2009.  Coogler, a 27 year old Oakland native, does not so much tell the story of Oscar Grant's death as set it in the contexts of his life, of what it is like to be a young black man in 21st century urban America, and also of the new geography of race and class in the East Bay...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on October 04, 2013 (boomark / email).