I saw the movie Fruitvale Station today at BAM and thought it was very good. The acting was great and what I really liked about it was that it showed a slice of life from a minority point of view (blacks and Latinos mainly). Minorities so often get the short shrift in movies or are relegated to being the stereotype (the help, the sidekick, the sassy black friend, the hot Latina, the Asian martial arts expert, etc.), but here you actually saw black folks going to work, having dinner, taking their kids to day care, celebrating a birthday, basically doing the same things you see white folks doing in movies and on TV.
Fruitvale Station tells the story of Oscar Grant, a young black man killed by a transit cop in San Francisco. After showing Oscar's last day alive, the movie ends with his death and it's a sad one. People were crying at BAM when I saw it, but these kinds of stories need to be told and I'm glad someone is telling them. We need more minority films like this rather than more Tyler Perry movies.
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