Violence In Gran Torino

Gran Torino is a all American story based off a man living in the gang ridden parts of Detroit. Clint Eastwood plays retired American assembly line worker and Korean War veteran. His highland park neighborhood in the Detroit area of Michigan was full of working class middle Americans and is now overtaken by poor Asian immigrants and gang violence is common. Set in Detroit, Michigan the movie is the first of its kind to future Hmong Americans who came in large migrations. The story follows Walt (Clint Eastwood), who plays as a recently retired Korean War veteran who is angry at the world. Walt's neighbor a young kid by the name of Thao Vang Lor is pushed by his cousin into stealing Eastwoods “1972 Ford Gran Torino” for joining a local gang.

The movie is played in dark shadows, violence, and anger, but the violence and eventual death of Eastwood all show that changes is coming and that the change is positive. The reading of his will at the end of the movie provides a idea and unexpected ending symbolizing change for the better in the neighborhood. To support this view of violence, its evolution and the possible ways of stopping it. Eastwoods intuition about violence follows the same logic that displays his understanding of violence with outstanding. almost to the end of Gran Torino, Eastwood has stepped away from violence, typical of other Eastwood movies (Dirty Harry) he finally breaks away from those characters, Using the usual Clint Eastwood themes centers on the problem and dynamics of the transition from the perspective of the hero of violence to the point of view of someone who by sacrificing himself. Walt and his family is the dominant theme of the funeral dissension between The tension between Walt and his family will last throughout the movie but for the moment we Eastwood is a lonely man without a family. It is the nature of violence to bring more violence. And the problem is that each person is always responding, without anybody being able to know exactly who started