Movies & TV Jan 8, 2009 at 4:00 am

Gran Torino: Fighting Racism with Racism

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One thing I've heard about this movie is that you're not really supposed to be cheering for Walt, or something like that. I just wish Eastwood would do a movie de-constructing Westerns.
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Yeah, I kind of think you missed the point, Humpy. GRAN TORINO is essentially Eastwood giving the UNFORGIVEN treatment to the 70s justice-with-a-gun films he helped popularize. Whether it was as successful is up for debate, but that was clearly the film's intention. It's old-skool deconstructionism.

It's the same technique that made THE SOPRANOS so good in its prime -- where they'd spend four episodes getting you on Tony's side, then slap you in the face and remind you that the guy's a fucking sociopath, and what the hell are you doing rooting for him? Or like UNFORGIVEN, where you spend the entire movie waiting for the bad-ass to come out and when it finally does, you're repulsed by it.
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Beaton, did you even see the movie??? It's nothing like Sopranos or unforgiven because in the end you are even more on the racist fuck's side (he's a fucking martyr in the end!). This movie sucked, you are supposed to be laughing at a racist pointing a gun at a black teens head, saying gook, and making tired dog-eating jokes. In the end you're supposed to like the racist because he helps clean up the neughborhood and saves the day. Anybody who liked this movie is a fucking idiot or a racist.
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Thanks, jj! Good to know that anyone who views a piece of art differently than you is wrong.
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I liked this movie.

Maybe its me or your just a bunch of sensitive Nancy's. One can use racial slurs without being racist, comedians do it all the time and people find it funny. Racism is not what the movie is about.

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