[Marxism] WSWS David Walsh review of Gran Torino

[Jerry Wells <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI: From WSWS World Socialist Web Site:

Gran Torino: What school have film writers and directors passed through?
By David Walsh 
9 January 2009
Directed by Clint Eastwood, screenplay by Nick Schenk

In Clint Eastwoodâs newest film, the actor-director plays a retired auto
worker, Walt Kowalski, whoâs chosen to go on living in his old,
seriously deteriorating neighborhood in metropolitan Detroit. With his
beloved wife dead, Walt is happy to be estranged from nearly everyone:
his two self-involved sons and their families; a young Catholic priest
whom he considers ignorant about the important questions in life (âI
confess that I have no desire to confess to a boy just out of the
seminary!â); and his new next-door neighbors, a Hmong family (from
Southeast Asia), at whom he mutters racial slurs.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/gran-j09.shtml





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