Just got back from Gran Torino and I highly recommend everyone sees this movie. I really want to see it again but hate going to movies twice in the theatre. I'll explain more of what makes this movie so rewatchable later, but first allow me to show a better summary of the movie in Eastwood's own words from Esquire's What I've Learned:
"We live in more of a pussy generation now, where everybody’s become used to saying, “Well, how do we handle it psychologically?” In those days, you just punched the bully back and duked it out. Even if the guy was older and could push you around, at least you were respected for fighting back, and you’d be left alone from then on.
I don’t know if I can tell you exactly when the pussy generation started. Maybe when people started asking about the meaning of life."
That basically sums up the movie in its entirety. Eastwood plays an old man who calls everyone a pussy, throws countless racial slurs, and crushes PBRs. It was probably the funniest movie I've seen all year, and this is one of the main reasons I want to watch it again, to steal some of his hilarious lines.
Now, once you're done laughing, Gran Torino is an amazing movie with a great underlying message of life, death and salvation. When the movie ended I almost felt like I was in a daze, I didn't want to stand up and just needed to let the emotions of the movie wash over me. It reminded me a lot of Million Dollar Baby which I saw with my dorm floor freshman year and I'm pretty sure we all cried. Overall this is a great movie I recommend everyone sees and cannot wait for it to come out on DVD.
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