But is not Gran Torino also "about" the failed utopian fantasy of racial
integration whereby the individual must accept an absence of fixed meaning
and agree to commit to the fantasy? Walt knows they are 'Other' but he might
as well save them. Makes Eastwood a great director because he can
simultaneously excite debate from various coordinates on a conceptual grid
as far-fetched as Aristotelian virtue to Nietzschean nihilism.
Russell
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