The movie “Grand Torino” (2008), directed and protagonized by
Clean Eastwood makes reference to several social problems, amongst them negative peer pressure, effect of post-traumatic stress disorder on an ex-soldier behavior, the deterioration of family values. But the main theme of this movie is that racism creates stereotypes that keeps people apart, originates violence, and discrimination, and that the best way to overcome this belief is to learn to see people from their cultural perspective. Also, that racism is a nonsense in a country which is basically made of immigrants.
Clean Eastwood makes reference to several social problems, amongst them negative peer pressure, effect of post-traumatic stress disorder on an ex-soldier behavior, the deterioration of family values. But the main theme of this movie is that racism creates stereotypes that keeps people apart, originates violence, and discrimination, and that the best way to overcome this belief is to learn to see people from their cultural perspective. Also, that racism is a nonsense in a country which is basically made of immigrants.