Tag: Sutra

Gran Torino is a must see movie—especially if you’re a Clint Eastwood fan in any way. It’s as if everything Eastwood has worked on perfecting throughout his career—Dirty Harry-like characters prone to wild showdowns, film directing, producing and even soundtracking—culminates into this one film, which is rumored to be his last acting performance.

Walt Kowalski, who Eastwood plays like an aged and weaker Dirty Harry, is played with such embittered disgruntlement the movie seems more comedy than drama when it begins. But as his life becomes more entangled in the lives of the Hmong community around him—one full of Asians faces his veteran memory resents even seeing—the drama begins. When he meets teenaged Thao and Sue next door after a gang fight in their front yard, he learns they are constantly harassed and pressured by a local Hmong gang until they submit to the gang’s initiation.