Gran Torino

Gran Torino:
I went to see the movie Gran Torino this weekend and found myself churning through a range of emotions that no movie has put me through in years. This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I laughed, cheered, cried, felt uneasy at times and relieved. Clint Eastwood a politically incorrect Korean War veteran is a holdout in a racially changing neighborhood. Clint hates the way his neighborhood is changing and is dragged into defending part of his neighborhood that he hates. What a well written story that no group of chinks, gooks, waps, spics or blacks have come forward to protest the language in Gran Torino. Clint Eastwood calls it the way many older White Americans see it but in the end finds a piece of himself that has been buried away for years and does what he has to do to atone for his past life. Bigotry is alive and well in this country but Gran Torino shows that there is hope, that people can change and that even a hardened bigot will put his feelings behind him to stand up for what is morally right. Bigotry is based in the mind morals are based in the heart. when it comes right down to it most people will follow their heart. The story, the acting, the setting all drag you into familiar territory that we can see being played out around us every day. Maybe not to the extreme this movie goes to but areas in every city are having to deal with the racial change and the cultural change that comes along with the colliding cultures. People have to learn to be more tollerant of each other. This movie should clean up at the Oscars. I give the movie Five Twirls with some moth catcher hand moves.