Personal Opinion

The movie that was chosen to write a review on is Grand Torino, costarring and directed by the American iconic tough guy, Clint Eastwood. The reason the film has been selected to do the report on was, I had the movie at home. Clint Eastwood’s performance as the character Walt Kowalski demonstrated a prime example of the socioeconomic conditioned stereotype, produced as a result of the World War Two social conditioning. Unfortunately, throughout history, propaganda and war have gone hand and hand, like two entangled serpents. To have a war that is abstractly agreeable by its population, a government needs its people behind the war. Hate, many, times is manufactured against another race to justify going to war and killing the …show more content…
To deepen the answer, for the question presented” the video was representative of this population.” I think the movie at first was a representation of a general image of the community through the fallacy of the stereotype of said society. Theater can, if used responsibly, be used as a tool to help start the processes of finding, one’s biases within ourselves. Rather from the observer perspective, newly embarking on the ever enlightening journey of self-knowing, or the observer, needing the final blow to the over protective (self-defense mechanism) ego, resisting change. In the film, the director masterfully allowed the audience to identify primarily with the character Walt Kowalski, which was the representation of the white privileged class in this case male, or the Hmong family, Sue the sister, Thao the brother and Vu the mother, representation of seemingly inferior lower class immigrants. Meanwhile sharing with the audience the transformation of both families, finding that when given a chance, they are not so different from one another. Both Walt and the Hmong family had conditioned stereotypical concepts. Later reviling how both sides worked through their biases to the point of co-existence thus homeostasis. Evidence being used to form your opinion, (personal experiences, other readings, class discussions, and so on), all are being taken in confidence, for consideration to for initial …show more content…
In the movie, they come to understand they were not so different from one another. Oppression wore many masks in the movie, self-oppression, race on own racial oppression, one race oppressing another race. The primary oppression was practiced was white people of all other races. I cannot say I have a wider or better understanding of the populations of the film. The scope of the movie was not wide enough to deepen my understanding. Strengths possessed by a group? The theatrical adaptation of the Hmong people with the tight netted people was a now coveted strength. This reminded me of how the family and communities are becoming an endangered concept. How to fear mongering and family alienation is extraordinarily profitable for the present economic system. Groups rather family, extended family, communities are always stronger than our alienated, splintered lives that they are