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Movie Analysis: Fruitvale Station
Fruitvale Station is the true story of the 22-year-old Bay area resident, Oscar Grant. He spends his New Year’s Eve trying to do better but as the day progresses he begins to realize that it isn’t going to be as easy as he thought. Towards the end of the movie, Oscar and his friends ends their night of celebrating their New Year in a confrontation with police officers at the Fruitvale BART station. Unfortunately, that was Grant’s last encounter. In my opinion, the movie Fruitvale Station is an accurate representation of what occurred Oscar Grant on
January 1, 2009.

The movie didn’t portray Oscar as a saint who has never broken the law nor as a bad guy. The director of the movie made sure to show that Oscar had a bad temper, but he also
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