Grand Torino affected my like no movie has done for a long, long time.
It would be easy to say the movie was nothing but Eastwood’s character learning how to get along with minorities. But what was not so noticable was another vein running in the opposite direction, telling today’s youth about work ethic, honesty, sacrifice, self-respect and pride - in yourself, your family, your neighborhood, and your country - whether native or adopted. Not walking around gangsta and destroying everything till there’s nothing left but criminal anarchy.
The best was the end when Walt, after teaching them a better way, sacrificing himself to give the next generation a future free of the thugs that were threatening the family, and the side-story of the priest after Walt’s death ditching his politcally correct, patronizing garbage and learning about real life and real people. A very very deep movie.
Well put. What I found most moving about it were the older characters I recognized from when I was younger; many of them..most...are gone now.
Yes, a profound masterpiece indeed. When I saw it, the audience remained seated watching the credits roll, very quiet, deeply impacted.