Next stop: Fruitvale Station

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Movie
German title Next stop: Fruitvale Station
Original title Fruitvale Station
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ryan Coogler
script Ryan Coogler
production Nina Yang Bongiovi ,
Forest Whitaker
music Ludwig Göransson
camera Rachel Morrison
cut Claudia Castello ,
Michael P. Shawver
occupation

Next stop: Fruitvale Station (Original Title: Fruitvale Station ) is an American drama film directed by Ryan Coogler from 2013 . The film tells the true story of the young African American Oscar Grant . The film opened in German cinemas on May 1, 2014.

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Next stop: Fruitvale Station tells the last 24 hours of Oscar Grant III, who was shot and killed by a police officer at Fruitvale Station on New Year's Eve 2008/09.

Shortly after midnight, on December 31, 2008, 22-year-old Oscar Grant and his friend Sophina exchange their resolutions for the new year: Sophina wants to pay more attention to her diet while Oscar wants to give up dealing in marijuana. He also wants to be a reliable father to her four-year-old daughter Tatiana. After the two Tatiana leave the kindergarten, Oscar Sophina drives to work and begins his errands. Oscar does the rest of the shopping for his mother's birthday dinner, who wants to celebrate the same day. The relationship between the two of them is in turmoil, as Oscar's mother reproaches for abandoning his family when he was in prison for two years. He drives to the supermarket where he once worked. He tries in vain to convince his old boss to hire him again. Oscar helps Katie, a customer at the grocery store, prepare dinner. After shopping, he calls Markus to sell his last bag of marijuana. Although they set up a meeting point for the handover, Oscar throws the rest of the drugs into the sea and gives Markus a little remainder.

He thinks back to his time in prison and the arguments with his mother. Even then, Oscar's aggressiveness was offended when a fellow inmate offended Oscar's mother. Oscar picks up Sophina and Tatiana. At home he confesses to Sophina that he has been unemployed for two weeks and threw away the bag of marijuana. The couple quarrel, but get along again. They're going to Oscar's mother's birthday party. Oscar tells her that they are going to party with friends in town that evening. His mother recommends using the subway. Oscar and Sophina bring Tatiana to his sister. The couple meet their friends and celebrate the turn of the year in the subway, which is not on time due to delays. Since the women urgently need to go to the toilet, Oscar persuades a shopkeeper to use the toilet. A white pregnant woman also has to go to the bathroom and Oscar stands up for her at the shop owner. While waiting, Oscar talks to the pregnant woman's husband about his poor past.

He stole the rings for his wedding. He then went into business for himself as a web designer and bought the rings that they both wanted. He offers Oscar to contact him about a job. The group gets back on the subway. While looking for a seat, the supermarket customer Katie discovers Oscar, who calls for him. She thanks him for his help. A group of whites, including a former Oscars inmate, notice him and begin a tussle. Oscar and his friends get off at the next subway station; the underground police have already been informed. They just sort out black suspects at random. She holds them on the platform, Oscar among them. The detainees remain calm, but have no understanding of the police's actions and express themselves sexist-derogatory to an officer. The white police officers react with increasing brutality, also to Oscar's attempts to mediate. The bystanders film the events with their cell phone cameras, but do not intervene. The police finally want to put Oscar and his friends in jail - a horror performance for Oscar, who reacts frantically. When he was arrested, a police officer shot him in the back. Sophina, who is outside the building at the time, hears the shot and learns of the incident through her friends. While Oscar is being brought to the hospital, Sophina informs his mother. Family and friends gather in the hospital. Anger and despair boil, but Oscar's mother can unite those present in common prayer for Oscar. The waiting time between hope and fear came to an end when a doctor announced the death of Oscar at around 9:15 a.m.

The film ends with the following lines:

“Numerous witnesses filmed what was happening at Fruitvale Station with their cameras and cell phones. These recordings sparked a series of protests and riots in the San Francisco and Oakland areas. The officers involved were dismissed, and then the head and manager of the railway police station resigned. The officer who shot Oscar was arrested and charged with murder. He said he mistook his taser for his pistol. As a result, the jury found him guilty of negligent homicide. The sentence was two years in prison. He was released after eleven months. Oscar Julis Grant III died around 9:15 in the morning on January 1, 2009. He was 22 years old. "

New Year 2013, many people met at Fruitvale Station to commemorate Oscar and his murder. At the same time it was a protest against the sentence that was awarded to the police officer. So banners could be seen on which it was written: "Justice for Oscar Grant, died but not forgotten."

Awards (selection)

At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , Fruitvale Station was awarded the US Grand Jury Prize

The film and several of those involved have received numerous awards and nominations. The Austin Film Critics Association honored Ryan Coogler in the Best First Film category . The production was nominated in nine categories at the Black Reel Awards in 2014. She also received the Humanitas Prize and two awards at the NAACP Image Awards . The film was also the winner of the award for the best debut film of the Independent Spirit Award and the Stanley Kramer Award . He was also one of the National Board of Review - Top Ten Films of 2013.

At the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival , Ryan Coogler was honored in the Un Certain Regard section . At the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , the film won the Jury's Grand Prize for best feature film and the audience award for best feature film .

Actor Michael B. Jordan received the Breakthrough Actor Award at the Gotham Awards in 2013 . At the Satellite Awards , he won the Breakthrough Performance Award.

Reviews

"An extremely dense representation of the milieu that comes close to the characters without glorifying them, and conclusively depicts racism as a subliminal, firmly established phenomenon in US society."

- Lexicon of international film

Epd Film magazine rated the production as “an outstanding example of the latest wave of African American films”. It is about “a worthy memento for a meaninglessly wasted life” that is “unpretentiously” staged.

Martin Schwickert of Zeit Online wrote that the film made it unmistakably clear that Oscar Grant would still be alive as a white man and went on to say that Coogler did not film an anti-racist pamphlet here, but also the open and tolerant interpersonal relationships in San Francisco Bay Area shows.

In the assessment in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 30, 2014 by Verena Lueken, however, the feelings the film shows are classified as too cute for this scandal.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Approval Certificate for Next Stop: Fruitvale Station . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 114 K).
  2. ^ Filmdienst.de: Next stop: Fruitvale Station
  3. ↑ criticism epd-film.de, accessed on June 8, 2015
  4. ↑ The last day of his life on www.zeit.de
  5. ↑ Shot by the keepers of order on www.faz.net