Henry and Kristl admired Gran Torino

Rating: Null/10 (25 June 2014)

After seeing Harry Brown, this sort of feels similar in a way, totally different in another. An old man living in a poor neighborhood plagued by crime takes on a gang. But there ends the similarities.
It is Eastwood's retort , a contrast with his earlier acting career by using the same symbol but then twisting it around, Krist said. She looked around to take in her surroundings. A garage turned movie- theater. Henry had put up posters of the movies they were going to see. They were printouts of blown up textures and the result had not been as nice as expected when looked at in broad daylight, but in the half shades of the theater they invoked the right mood.
You mean Nobody and Dirty Harry?
Exact.
Not a simple vengeance film like Harry Brown.
No. Not at all. A kind of revanche. Eastwood acts like an aged Nobody or Dirty Harry. But that is just for show and any similarities are mostly superficial. Yet not entirely. Both men, with little left to live for and without much time to live sacrifice themselves. Although in Gran Torino the sacrifice is meant to end in one way, in the way it ends. In Harry Brown the options are open.
I liked this movie.
Yeah, Eastwood makes marvelous movies of late. Pity it took a while for him to get around to it, but maybe it had to be like this. You know.. maturity.
Old men making movies about old men. Is it the new fashion? Henry wondered, there must be a market for it.
Perhaps.. maybe just another direction to explore..and perhaps also because that is what occupies his mind. Eastwood is old, so I guess he tends to reminisce a bit and make movies about subjects close to his heart. Like Flag of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.
Or Gran Torino. A beautiful old car..
If you like those kinds of cars that is.
You're more a beetle kind of person, aren't you, Kristl?
I might be. I never heard of a Gran Torino until I saw this movie. Cute car, but wouldn't want to have one. Looks like a guzzler to me.
You're proletarian, I bet you probably don't even own a car.
Indeed, I do not.
So tell me, how on earth do you get around?
Like most people did a hundred years ago. How else?
What is that? On horseback?
No.. walking, of course.
All the way from Berlin ?
Berlin, why would you say that? I live in Amsterdam and did not come walking all the way. I used a teleporter to cover most of the distance and walked the last stretch.
A teleporter.
Well, why not.. In stories and movies you can do anything.
Are you're messing with reality now?
It is what we do all the time don't we?
In movies.., with certainty.
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