After a prologue consisting of either real
cell phone footage of the incident or an uncanny replication of same — it's tough to say which — writer - director Ryan Coogler rewinds to the previous morning.
In particular, her video All The Boys: Video In Three Parts uses the
real cell phone footage of the deaths of Eric Garner, Philandro Castile and others to transform viewers into active witnesses of these crimes, as I explored in my review.
His class watched
cell phone footage taken by students during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and explored all sides of America's raging gun debate.
It is difficult to not think about the George Zimmerman / Trayvon Martin case when going into Fruitvale (which is based on a true story — we see the
actual cell phone footage of the shooting in the first moments of the film, so we know how this is going to end).
NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Thursday that
cell phone footage taken just before a young woman was allegedly gang raped by five teens in a Brooklyn playground is a...
uses the real
cell phone footage of the deaths of Eric Garner, Philandro Castile and others to transform viewers into active witnesses of these crimes, as I
Cell phone footage of the arrest, taken by Clemons» friend, shows multiple officers physically wrestling Clemons to the ground, exposing her breasts.
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cell phone footage.
This is borne out by the film's relative lack of interest in anything that happens after Grant dies — the compelling story of
the cell phone footage, the trial, the controversial verdict, and the unrest and memorialization that followed is told mostly through curt, pre-credit-roll titles.Yet the film also tries hard for a verite style, as opposed to something more allegorical, and so we have to conclude that we're supposed to accept its less believable moments at face value.