Nice summation.
Many on FFL appear to be the same bitter old man that Clint dramatizes,
except their war is in the realm of decades of meditation, sprinkled of
course with a bit of slapstick.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote:
--- On Tue, 1/6/09, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote:
From: Bhairitu noozg...@...
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Gran Torino
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 2:37 PM
Last week when I went to see Milk I noted that
Century theaters had
lowered their senior age from 65 to 62. Not
only that they have
Senior Mondays where the evening shows are $6
for seniors (that's a
$1.25 off the usual senior price). So being an old
fart myself having
recently turned 62 I decided last night to see a movie
about an old
fart, Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino at the
Century theater in nearby
yuppieville Walnut Creek which is the only theater in the
area showing it.
The theater did a reasonable Monday night business although
the majority
was not senior citizens and arriving 15 minutes early was
ample time to
get the best seat in the house because the show
was in a large
auditorium.
The film about a tough but elderly man whose wife recently
passed away
and whose kids are trying to get him to move into a
retirement home who
has new neighbors who are Vietnamese. In fact most of the
neighborhood
is being taken over by Asians. He doesn't understand
and disdain's his
new neighbors. But eventually because of rescuing the kid
next door
from an Asian gang gains the respect of his neighbors and
strikes up a
relationship them.
In a way this film has the elements of a feel good
movie of the year
but it has its dark and brutal moments. But it is well
worth a look
see. I don't know if Eastwood announced that this was
the last film he
was going to star in but the critics keep saying it will
the last one he
is in. We'll see, because for some reason 78
doesn't seem that old to
me anymore. ;-)
Good film. Wonderful, moving ending that, to be honest, I didn't
expect, but made all the sense in the world. Some of the secondary plots
I thought were silly and didn't work for me. Like trying to teach the
boy to speak like a man. Too much like slapstick. But overall, a very
good movie about a bitter old man who transcends his limits and shows us
what really beats in the heart of an old warrior.
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