...Analysis of ”Fruitvale station” The film “Fruitvale Station” is a story about a young man, trying to create a new future for himself and his family. The film also touches on other subjects like racial differences and a corruptive police force. “Fruitvale Station” is a moving drama depicting a very tough environment in the US. You feel like you get to know Oscar Grant, and you get compassionate about him and his situation. The film shows a lot of feelings. He is obviously very much in love with his girlfriend and their daughter. The structure of the film is very different from other movies. It sets of with a blurry flash-forward to the ending of the film. The flash-forward gets you somewhat confused from the beginning. But then the story about Oscar Grant begins and at the end of the film, you understand why the film is composed this way. The film expands over 24 hours on new years day in 2009. We hear a little bit about Oscar’s past and his life. Even though we only get to know him for 24 hours it still feels like we know a lot about this man. There are a lot of important moments in this film. The most important one is taking place at the station where Oscar gets shot. The point of no return is Oscar and his friends getting handcuffed, and you can feel that something bad is about to happen. Anything but the ending of the film, is about us getting to know Oscar, and the escalations of the conflicts are very brief and quick. Oscar Grant is a young man that, after...
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...Film Analysis Paper James Smith MU14ELC05B Hum/150 STACY DAVIES The film Fruitvale Station is the story of twenty-two year old Oscar Grant III. The films plot is Oscar just wants to be a better person then he was the previous year. He lived in and out of jail. His mother hated to see him in jail because she felt like he was wasting his life and his daughter’s life. Her last visit to the jail him and his mother argued and had their disagreements. That same day a man in jail also picked a fight with Oscar. Oscar was released from jail but did not know that his encounter with that man will someday surface again and it would be his last encounter. Oscar makes an effort to be a better son to his mother, a better boyfriend to his girlfriend, and a better father to his daughter. The film follows Oscar around on December 31, 2008, which appears to be just a normal day in his life, New Years Eve and his mother’s birthday. He works in a grocery store and sells drugs for a living to make a way for his daughter. He is unfaithful to his girlfriend/the mother of his child. Oscar woke up that day and realized that his life was not exactly where he wanted it to be. He could barely afford rent for their apartment. He faced many obstacles that day. He got fired from his job. Knowing that having no job meant partial rent money he begged and begged for his job back but his boss would not let him come back. I feel like the way that the director portrayed Oscar and his encounters with family...
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...Cultural Moves AMERICAN CROSSROADS Edited by Earl Lewis, George Lipsitz, Peggy Pascoe, George Sánchez, and Dana Takagi 1. Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies, by José David Saldívar 2. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, by Neil Foley 3. Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound, by Alexandra Harmon 4. Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War, edited by George Mariscal 5. Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, by Rachel Buff 6. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East,1945–2000, by Melani McAlister 7. Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown, by Nayan Shah 8. Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934–1990, by Lon Kurashige 9. American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture, by Shelley Streeby 10. Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past, by David R. Roediger 11. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, by Laura Briggs 12. meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands, by Rosa Linda Fregoso 13. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, by Eric Avila 14. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, by Tiya Miles 15. Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of...
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