Gran Torino Review

GRAN TORINO

GRAN TORINO Widescreen Edition was a movie which I borrowed this weekend to view with my husband after the children went to bed. I have 5 children. Obviously, 8 year old Aimee watching was never an option. I have a 22 yr old son who will eventually. My 18 yr old has too much college "stuff' going on period.  My 17 yr old will another day and my 15 year old will in maybe a year.

   We live in a very racial area and my children are half Pennsylvania Dutch and half Mexican. I was more worried that my Mexican husband would lose his love for Clint Eastwood than anything else. I knew he was portraying a predjudiced man before borrowing this movie. I disagree with others who say it was so so. He showed an older man who was predjudiced grew to care more for someone he once despised than his own offspring. Clint pulled his lines. It was not an action movie for him so much as an acting movie for him.

   Walt Kowalski Clint's character) was widowed and from the first told the young priest he didn't know anything about life and death. He was a Korean War veteran whose grandchildren didn't know what the medals were in his cellar After their Grandma's funeral his granddaughter asked him for the Gran Torino in the cellar for college and when he dies. She is very materialistic. Her mother tries to shove him off into an old folks home on his birthday. Not his daughter. His son's wife who wants them to sell his home and of course get money out of it.

  There is almost nothing of his other son. That's partly to prove he had no real connection with either of his sons. The close proximity one money grubbing and the other simply away and not in his life.

  Sue and her family next door draw him into their lives no matter how he feels he becomes closer to them. I really loved the psitting scene with Grandma spitting twice as much as Clint. Her nod after her grandson helps another neighbor had my husband chuckle.

   I haven't even mentioned the dog. His faithful dog. If you haven't seen this movie and you like Clint; take the time to see it.