12-20-2008, 06:15 PM
Clint Eastwood is just so damned impressive. This was a really good film. The story was a bit contrived and predicatable in places, but it just didn't bother me, and I really didn't expect the ending.
Clint's a mean old bastard spouting horrible racist stereotypes as he drinks 8-9 beers a day. He's living in a house where the neighborhood has changed drastically over the years. He's just lost his wife, his kids and grandkids are pretty awful. After unintentionally doing something nice for the Hmong neighbors, an odd friendship develops between him and the neighbor kids - he sees redeeming characteristics in the neighbor's kid that he never saw in his own kids, and decides to help them. He's an odd "knight in shining armor" especially with the incredibly offensive language he's constantly spewing forth, but they judge him by his actions and not his words.
Anyway, I liked it.
Clint's a mean old bastard spouting horrible racist stereotypes as he drinks 8-9 beers a day. He's living in a house where the neighborhood has changed drastically over the years. He's just lost his wife, his kids and grandkids are pretty awful. After unintentionally doing something nice for the Hmong neighbors, an odd friendship develops between him and the neighbor kids - he sees redeeming characteristics in the neighbor's kid that he never saw in his own kids, and decides to help them. He's an odd "knight in shining armor" especially with the incredibly offensive language he's constantly spewing forth, but they judge him by his actions and not his words.
Anyway, I liked it.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
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