#Fruitvale station verdict movie
It's kind of a throwaway joke in the movie when the sister jokingly warns Grant not to get their mom one of those crazy-white birthday cards, but it's also a reminder that there are all sorts of things, big and small, that white people think aren't race-related, but that only aren't race-related for white people.
But he also comes from a worldview that knows that the white world and the black world are not the same.
He got permission from BART to shoot the murder scene on the very platform where it happened. He worked with Grant's family to get the feeling and substance of Grant's character right. Coogler followed the story and the protests before he decided to make the movie. The young filmmaker, Ryan Coogler, also of the Bay Area, has stressed his life's similarities to Grant's. This is a movie with a nearly all-black cast, made by a young black male director, and it probably isn't going to be seen by George Zimmerman (though if it is, I'd like to hear what he thinks of it). But it was inevitable in some ways that Grant gets re-prosecuted here in an alternative realm, by a jury of his actual peers. That's not what the filmmakers and actors say they were trying to do-they want to humanize him, they've explained in interviews.
#Fruitvale station verdict trial
Is Oscar Grant on trial in Fruitvale Station? Yeah, he is. It was crucially important to her to give him the benefit of the doubt. But she went much further than acquitting him. There was no legal reason for juror B37 to speculate on what was in Zimmerman's heart. In a TV interview after the Trayvon Martin case was closed earlier this month, Florida juror B37 twice said she was absolutely positive that George Zimmerman's "heart was in the right place," referring to the man who, when all is said and done, racially profiled, then without cause and against warnings approached, then shot and killed a black teenager-in his words from when he first saw the young man, just a "punk"- for being there in his gated community. Every piece of research data there is-and I'm sure counter-arguers are already lining up in the wings, but the data will destroy them in a hot minute-will tell you that these people, those who get the benefit of every doubt, are not young black men in America in 2013.
Some people get the benefit of the doubt.
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