He is at home the American flag on his house

Soon, seventy-nine years, the Inspector Harry is cowardly not pressure. Over time, it adds in the coquetry. He plays a type of his age and he is still as young. It interprets a "old func" and it is necessarily likeable. Walt Kowalski, his new character, is a worker retired from Ford. Widowed, angry with his children, he lives alone in a pavilion in wood in the suburbs of Detroit. Its only interlocutor is an old labrador. With humans, it is merely grunting. And spit. Plague it against the "flanging", "lemon faces" it has acquired the language punished during the Korea war invaded its neighbourhood. Not issue them to surrender an inch of its territory. The first that tramples underfoot the lawn is a dead man. He is at home, the American flag on his house. Walt will be the irreducible WASP.

Its neighbours are of Hmong. These mountain people living between Laos, the Viet Nam and the Thailand, have been the back-up troops from the US Army during the war of the Viet Nam. Their harkis. They had no choice but to flee to the United States to save their skin after the capture of Saigon by the Vietcong. The generation born on American soil has his gang. When one of its members looking the Gran Torino a model Ford in 1972, his favorite; He once made it , Kowalski the Polak so calls it his hairdresser with whom he competed in "good" racist jokes sees red. And it comes out his rifle.

Human ambiguity

Clint Eastwood is never as good when it plays a role earned for him: the loner who, making justice itself to settle a personal case, becomes the providential man of a group. Despite him. "In the dramaturgy of Eastwood, justice is always in question, threatening at any time to change sign and return to its contrary: ambiguity and malaise, imperfection and blindness", said one of his biographers, Michael Henry Wilson ("Interviews with Clint Eastwood", in the Editions of the Cahiers du cinéma). Wish or predator, Archangel or demon, rider of the apocalypse or Redeemer, "Pale rider" at "gran torino", you never know what side look the scourge. Clint Eastwood films with the rigour and the aesthetics of a classic human ambiguity. "I love telling stories", he used to say to avoid answering the questions. The air should not be disturbed, he always addressed heavy topics: pedophilia ("Mystic River"), euthanasia ("Million Dollar Baby"), the dilution of the feeling patriotic ("letters of Iwo Jima") and there, immigration, acculturation, the violence of the bands, the desertion of the sovereign State.

Under their old ill plethora Cowboys appearance, the characters of the Director, the Inspector Harry Callaghan to Walt Kowalski, are lively exonerate. They feign indifference to impress the Gallery, but the emotion is still intact. Since the grief of Francesca, the farmer (Merryl Streep) in "on the road to Madison", no one ignores the sensitivity top skin of Clint Eastwood. "Gran Torino", superb concentrate of his work, does not derogate there.