Movie Review: Gran Torino

I saw this movie sorta on a whim and I am so glad I did.  The movie is Clint Eastwood at his best.  He plays a Korean War Vet. whose wife has just passed and lives alone in a mostly South East Asian community that had at one point been a Ford factory town.  He catches his next door neighbor trying to steal his (beautiful) 1972 Ford Gran Torino.  He then starts working for Clint to repay his debt.

This movie was great and very cleverly critiqued modern society.  It explores what the youth culture has devolved into and what values have been lost in the last half century.  There are ways in which we have moved forward.  Clint's character and the youths in the movie stand juxtaposed as to what we've lost (self sufficiency, common courtesy, fraternity among men) and what we've gained (acceptance of many cultures and becoming less racist).

This was a great movie, and truly stands as an example of the world we live in and the one that we have left behind.