What a waste of my time!!!

Masterful Movie

Absolutely Fantastic

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Thank you for sharing the truth! This comprehensive factually based documentary was well produced. I was devastated upon seeing the facts of this murder. I was previously misinformed. I'm ashamed I believed the falsely construed narrative. The truth is so painful.

This was well done, insightful and shared more validity than our justice system for this tragic case. The haters are clearly not filmmakers or legit reviewers and quite biased on some varying level. Great work to the filmmakers and many prayers to the "cast"... the true people who experienced a tragic loss. Very well done and awesomely sad to know it is tragic and true. #ripmichaelbrown

At first, I was completely baffled as to why the rating for this doc on this site is so low. Then, I remembered the current climate, the climate when this took place and the climate every time something like this takes place. I read some of the reviews, and again had to consider the climate of things. So...At no point in this doc was Mike Brown painted to be an angel. Anyone who got that idea clearly missed the point. He was portrayed as exactly what he was, a person. Something people sometimes forget when the matter of racism or racially motivated issues are concerned. That and the fact that they left his body on the ground for over 4 hours them took it away in a wagon like he was a dead animal. There was not, and still is not any justifiable reason why Officer Wilson murdered him. Yes, he murdered him. Point blank. There is a pile of evidence that confirms he was murdered. I know when a cop does the shooting people try to change the narrative, but a cop is still a human. And a human killing another human is murder. It was not self defense. He died from the shot to the head, which took place while Brown was already down from being riddled with bullets. A person who is already crippled from gunshots and has no weapon is not a threat. He did not charge at Officer Wilson and this was proven by evidence.And lastly, yes there are a lot of racial references that I'm certain make some people uncomfortable. To that I say, you should ask yourself why does it make you feel uncomfortable? And don't use tired excuses or made up concepts, such as "race baiting" or "creating division". Because the truth about why this makes you uncomfortable, those exact feelings, are the usually the motivating factors (or the beginning) to the occurrence of situations like this.

Stranger Fruit was extremely well-received in its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX. In many ways it provides Michael Brown with his day in court that he was denied by the actions of the authorities in Ferguson, MO. Michael Brown's 2014 was a tragedy and it seems clear that authorities prevented the full truth from coming to light. They dissect the available evidence to show how Officer Darren Wilson likely lied about the shooting to justify his own actions. More importantly they document the institutional racism that likely led County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch to intentionally act in a manner that led the grand jury not to indict Officer Wilson. There is a lot that has been said about these events, but this film provides a highly accessible visual accounting of this controversy. It should be widely viewed, because it is crucial for the public to get a real accounting of these important and controversial historical events.Many of the details of these remain murky, but this film certainly provides a clearer look at these events than most Americans have seen before. It corrects some of the misinformation that have been spread about Michael Brown. Unfortunately, it is hard to call it a fully objective accounting. The film was clearly made in cooperation with the family and supporters and sometimes allows its rhetoric to exceed its facts. There are sometimes where it appears to exaggerate. It tries to make Michael Brown into a saint instead of an ordinary person. Some of the connections drawn among peripheral players are conspiratorial without real evidence. In one place where they compare statistics, they state that there are over 1100 police killings annually in the U.S. compared to only 14 in China. While the U.S. figure may well be true (and should be unacceptable), it is absurd to accept such a statistic from the authoritarian Chinese authorities as a reliable point of comparison. Their comments in the screenings also present the director more as an agenda-driven advocate than as objective film maker. Again, this is unfortunate, because it makes it more difficult for people to fully believe the film's interpretation. This is an important story that deserves to be told in an objective manner. While Stranger Fruit does add some important detail to the story, Michael Moore- style documentaries that start from the conclusion they want to reach lack the neutrality to fully answer the unanswered questions. Michael Brown deserves to have his tragic story told and this film partly does so, but a better more objective accounting is still needed.