REVIEW: FRUITVALE STATION
There is an impending doom that runs through Ryan Coogler's feature film directorial debut "Fruitvale Station." Like the movie that landed in my top five films of 2012 last year, "Lincoln," "Fruitvale Station" is actual history, and from the opening sequence with actual cell phone footage shot from an onlooker at the train station you know the fate of Mr. Oscar Grant III. A cop who allegedly thought he was tasering Grant shot him in the back, fatally wounding him. But fatally wounded is such a politically correct word, the cop killed Grant. He murdered him, albeit maybe unintentionally, but the movie takes no bias and clearly shows the cops aggravated and eager to ruffle up Grant and his friends in order to "keep the peace." Only eye witnesses know what happened that day, but I have to review the movie in front of me. If the officers were pistol-whipping Grant and his crew and laughing at them, then yes, I'd say there were liberties t...