Dec
Gran Torino
Many hail the movie as junk but it does hail from a lineage of tough cop movies that has made Clint Eastwood. The main character has just recently lost his wife and is being pressured by his children to move into a senior citizen’s home which he staunchly disagrees doing. His beloved Detroit being all dangerous with Asian street gangs ruling the area with violence and crime as their main tool of demanding compliance. He hates Asians as he is an old veteran of the Korean war from which hatred and dread of Asians developed. His life becomes entangled with the street gangs when his next-door neighbor kid tries to swipe his old yet pristine vintage car, a 1972 Grand Torino. He foils the attempt and learns it was done as an initiation rite to join a gang which he ends battling his own way. He ends up earning the respect of his previously hated Asian neighbors as a promoter of justice, ‘Dirty Harry Style’ of course. Nice film and wonderfully set as a true depiction of America’s streets. You just have to love the guy, for there’s only one bad cop and that’s Clint.