Becoming A New Oscar

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My favorite scene of the movie Fruitvale Station is between the minutes 21:15 and 27:15. During this scene, Oscar, a 22-year-old ex-convicted African American boy drives up to the bay. While he is still inside the car, he stares at a picture of his little daughter and him. He seems to be pensive, and then he gets out of the car and walks toward the ocean. He squats on top of a rock and he goes back in time, thinking about that time when he was in prison.

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He thinks about that particular time, during New Year’s Eve, when his mother visited him. He was very excited to see his mom and so was she. However, when his mom asked him about what had happened to his face. Apparently, he had gotten in trouble, but he was avoiding the question. During the conversation, they talked about his daughter and how fast she growing up and what new things she was learning. He did not like the fact that he was away from her and that he missed her so much. He could not wait to see her after prison. Close to the end of the visit, his mom revealed that she was not going to visit him in prison anymore. Near the end of this scene, he’s back on the rock, and he decides to throw away the marihuana that he had in his pants.

I think that this is a very potential scene because the main character, Oscar, in this case, realizes that he needs to quit the life that he had chosen before. He understands that what he had done had sent him to prison, which did not allow him to spend time with his loved ones. Right there, he decided to make a change in his life for a better future. This scene let us see the old Oscar and the new one.