I've just finished watching Clint Eastwood's latest movie Gran Torino. He acted in and directed the film and they say it is probably his last acting role.
The film is a giant leap from the Clint of old days when Dirty Harry sorted out the hoodlums and crims with his trust 44 magnum or the un-named stranger in the westerns who could outdraw anyone.
Gran Torino is a strange kind of vehicle for Eastwood to finish on as it has a surburban setting and feel and I couldn't help wondering what was the point of it all. Maybe it is his way of saying that we all get old and can't do the things we used to do, like blow away a couple of neighbourhood hoodlums who terrorise him and his new Hmong neighbours.
In the end, Clint confronts the gang and is filled full of lead in a blaze of machinegun fire. His motive was to let them kill him in front of witnesses so they could be arrested and charged with his murder. It doesn't have quite the same impact as "Well punk, do you feel lucky?".... click... boom!
But once again Eastwood has added another phrase to our everyday language... "Having a Torino Moment". I have them all the time!
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