You probably should not have gone. You obviously weren’t paying attention. The Eastwood character was terminally ill and wanted to goad the hoods into killing him in front of witnesses. Maybe you should stick to cartoons.
I’m sure that witty statement made you feel far superior to me.
Actually, the Eastwood’s final scene in Gran Torino is a homage to Jesus Christ and Catholicism.
Eastwood goes to confession and then sets out to give up his life for his friends. (what could be less PC)
Eastwood plays the part of a Korean War Marine veteran that has been haunted by his time in service because of the human lives that he was forced to take. He has recently befriended his new Hmong neighbors who are being terrorized by a Hmong street gang.
Knowing that he is dying of lung cancer and also knowing that he has no chance of killing the entire gang solo he devises his plan to trick the gang in to killing him in a very public manner that will provide the police with ample witnesses to the crime.
In the end Eastwood’s plan succeeds and the final shot of Eastwood he is lying on his back his back his arms straight out to his sides in emulation of Christ on the Cross.
I think the movie is as close as we are likely to come these days to a movie that gives us a Common Christian man as a reluctant hero.
I think it was well done and it is one of my favorite Eastwood movies.
I think it would have been unrealistic to have a 70-year-old man walk in to the gang house M1 and 1911 and kill all of the gang members on their home turf ala The Punisher. I like super hero movies but that is not Eastwood’s style.