Gran Torino

Classic Clint? Back to those Spaghetti Western Dirty Harry glory days?  Some might say.  He seems to carve out a character, with little words and certainly no bling.  Yet, you grow to understand and even like these characters, due to their sheer simplicity(?).  Without giving too much away, which is kind of pointless these days with the amount of spoilers and ads any mild internet user can stumble upon, Clint plays a Korean war vet, much the same age as well, er, Clint.  He has his Few Dollars More voice, but with added husk and croak!

This film makes you laugh, a lot.  It also makes you angry, think, and at times, slightly upset.  Watching it with an analyser of culture, looking for talking points for his higher classes is also very interesting.  Themes of salvation and redemption are prevalent here, but maybe slightly spoilt by less than subtle displays of crucifixion. There is also retaliation and violence, with a nice learning point, that perhaps, boys and girls, this isn’t always the best way!  As I said, there are a lot of laughts, a lot of non-pc laughs that you wonder who else they would let away with.  But a disgruntled, grumpy old man, basically, is entitled to say it how it is, or at least how he sees it, I guess.

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One thought on “Gran Torino”

  1. Just looking in Rich. sadly haven’t seen either of these films. Did see a strange one recently called Franklyn, a British sci-fi, pretty original..

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