Review of Fruitvale Station (2013) by Nick D — 19 Dec 2013

If ever there was a movie for which Godard's famous quip was perfect, it's Fruitvale Station, which delivers the truth at 24 frames per second. Here we have an ordinary lower-middle-class black guy, hardly perfect, but good to his family, trying hard to keep a job and get away from the drug scene.

Wrong place, wrong time in a Shakespearean sense, that "if only" kind of fatalism that breaks the heart open so you can see it beating, thereby revealing more about the watcher than the watched.