Gran Torino A Not So Joyful Ride To Salvation

16 years later, these same themes pervade his latest (and perhaps his last) film, Gran Torino. The traditions of its strange especially Hmong immigrant neighbors shake a stodgy, racist bile thats been filtered by his return from the Korean War while ago. Racial epithets are treated as maps, jabbing the moviegoer with discomfort, the creation of a predictable success for Walt to play in the second half of the film. In 1992, Unforgiven Clint Eastwood earned a Best Director Oscar with his redemptive themes that make up for past mistakes and to respond to a call to mans duties that the other does not have the stomach for. Kowalskis Walt (Eastwood) is dilapidated neighborhood around him, he is the last white American on the block, and is constantly reminded of this fact. As an actor, director, producer, and, curiously, songwriter, Eastwood does his tendency to go for period pieces, and sets Gran Torino during the day decay suburban Detroit.