Gran Torino *****

Gran Torino film poster

Gran Torino film poster

The film is about a grumpy old man Walt Kowalski, played by Clint Eastwood, who lives in a run down neighbourhood where most people are immigrants or come from immigrant famlies. He is unhappy with the people in the neighbourhood and his own family. He gets involved with the family next door after the son tries to steal his Gran Torino. It covers many moral issues around religion and racism. It is a great film, made even better by the good storyline.

I give it 5 out of 5, and would recommend you go and see it while it is still on in the cinemas. To find out more about the film including more that you would want to before seeing it try the Wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Torino_(film)

Film reviews

I have added a new category to the blog Film Review I like going to the pictures, and try to go quite regularly. I often can’t remember a film I have seen even a few months later, perhaps old age is setting in, so this will be a way for me to refer back to films I have seen.

I will try to do the blog entry just after I have seen the film, by email using the BB. Films will be awarded up to 5 stars.

By the way they have started pouring concrete down at the dump site, I will try to get a picture of the machine with a big tube that they use to pump the wet cement. Not I used concrete and cement in the same sentence because I don’t know the difference between the two.

UPDATE – Apparently cement is the important ingredient in concrete, it is the fine grey powder that goes hard and holds all the other stuff together.