Today, September 22nd (Sunday) at 1:25 PM, the movie ‘Gran Torino’ (original title: Gran Torino) will be screened on EBS1TV’s ‘Sunday Cinema’. Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Clint Eastwood, Christopher Calley, Bee Bang, Ernie Herr, and Corey Hardrick, ‘Gran Torino’ is an American movie produced in 2008 and is available for ages 15 and up. The broadcast length is 116 minutes.
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is an old man who fought in the Korean War in his youth, returned to the United States, worked for Ford Motor Company, and is now retired. He is indifferent to everything in the world and is generally unhappy with everything. There is only one thing he loves and cherishes. It is a car produced by Ford in 1972 called the Gran Torino. It is quite large, has a loud engine, and consumes a lot of gas. It is a product that represents a time when it was popular and is no longer produced. It is a relic of the past, compared to the Japanese and German cars that are popular today. Walt is the same. He is a person from a past that is no longer of much interest and is tied to the past. The “American values” he pursued are now far away. The neighborhood has become a slum and people are leaving, and what has taken their place is a talkative Hmong immigrant family. They keep bothering Walt, but before he knows it, a friendship has developed between them. But the fact that there is a gang targeting them makes the audience increasingly uneasy.
Topic: How can one’s identity be shaken and remade?
There are many historical moments that create a person’s identity. What created the elderly American Walt Kowalski was memories of war and pride in working for the same company for 50 years. He experiences cracks in his way of life through interactions with immigrants from other ethnicities that he had so despised and ignored. The Hmong family next door is a sudden blow to him. In particular, the word ‘Asian’ reminds him of war and he wants to stay away from his Hmong neighbors because they are people who bring him fear and pain at the same time. In particular, when Tao follows him around, who seems useless and worthless, he experiences a strange inner shaking. How can a person’s identity be shaken and recreated? Watching that can be considered a point of interest in this film.
Points to watch: The strange friendship that develops between a retired general and a 16-year-old boy named Tao.
Walt Kowalski, a retired general who shows all kinds of racial prejudice and lives with his own stubbornness, is the beginning and everything of . Clint Eastwood once again directed and starred in this film. That’s how much Clint Eastwood’s ‘American’ face catches the eye. He is a man of few words, but his firm and solid rock-like face and expressionless face show the character of Walt, and at the same time, the face of an old, stubborn old man who tries to protect the ‘American’ things that have now passed, which this film constantly reminds us of. In particular, the relationship that Walt develops with Thao, a 16-year-old boy who is one of the Hmong families that moved in next door, is also the core of this film. Thao lives with his grandmother, mother, and older sister. Thao has no ‘men’. Thao wants to see Walt as a kind of role model and mentor. Before he knows it, Walt teaches Thao how to act and think as a proud ‘man’ and how to pave his own path, and he comes to realize his own usefulness. Walt can no longer see his dead wife, and his children are psychologically distant. The person who understands him more than anyone else and stays close to him at this moment is Tao. Watching the friendship that has developed between them in a strange way is quite important in this film.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Even if we cannot pinpoint the exact nature of ‘Americanness’, we can at least find some clues to ‘Americanness’ by looking at Clint Eastwood. His filmography, both inside and outside, often blatantly and sometimes covertly exposes America’s discriminatory gaze toward other ethnicities, races, and religions, and touches on complex ethical issues.
Through Sergio Leone’s , he created Eastwood’s signature expression of a cigarette in his mouth and frowning, and with exaggerated movements, he broke the strict classic western man and created his own. The role of Harry Callahan, which seemed to be based on a western outlaw character and a ‘bad’ detective character on top of that, was very popular. He made his directorial debut in 1971 with and was recognized for his directing talent through (1985). With (1992), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, he naturally came to be called a ‘master’. His cold insight into the violence of modern American society has been an important keyword that has run through his works since then. In terms of films that allow characters to come to life and move naturally in storytelling rather than the aesthetics of form, Eastwood is definitely a writer with amazing talent.
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2024-09-22 01:07:14