Is it really violence?

Tyrel 2022-04-20 09:01:10

Some time ago, everyone unanimously recommended the movie Gran Torino. People like me who watch two movies a day did not choose this movie to watch. Because I read the introduction: A lonely old man has a peculiar character, and he gets angry and rough with the people he interacts with. After the death of his wife, his relationship with his neighbors is even worse, and he has to pick up a long gun and fight a car thief alone.

Gran Torino, translated as classic classic car, banished. Why is it translated into a classic car, maybe because the old man has a classic classic car, and the story revolves around the classic car, or it implies that this dead old man is actually a classic classic car, old-fashioned and lonely, but inside is a classic flash. bright.


As for the translation of the expulsion, that's the only feeling I got from watching this movie. This film is not only known for its foul language, but almost two-thirds of the part is violent. The degree of using violence to suppress violence gradually increases with the extension of the film. It's like gradually putting block after block of lead on my heart. It made me breathless.

The first shot of the old man using violence to control violence came from his relatives. After my wife's funeral. The granddaughter of the old man, a rotten girl who shows her belly and squeezes her nose at the funeral, complains that the mobile phone signal is not good and boring, smokes by the old man's classic car, asks the old man, you are going to die anyway, just give me the car, The large sofa is also very suitable for me. I am going to university in the city during the year, and I don't have a piece of furniture. It's just right for me.

The old man didn't speak, stared at him with fierce eyes, and a large mouthful of purulent phlegm spat out on the ground.

Since then, almost every shot is of the old man showing the ruthlessness of fighting on the Korean battlefield, ruthlessly expelling everyone who tried to break into his life and thoughts.

The old man humiliated the priest who tried to break into his mind. He is said to be a 27-year-old virgin who pretends to hold the hand of a superstitious woman.

The old man used a gun to protect his classic car, and humiliated Tao, a neighbor boy who was about to degenerate, who stole the car. Tao worked voluntarily to atone for his sin. The old man found a lot of meaningful work for Tao to train him, but he never forgot to humiliate him. Tao is a savage Miao, a car thief.

The old man rescued Tao's sister Su from the hooligan, pointed the gun at the vicious hooligan, spat fiercely, and insulted the hooligan by the way. The hooligans were frightened by the momentum and ran away.

The old man who saved people was regarded as a hero by the Miao people and attended the party of the Su family, but was rejected by the men because of his ferocity. The wizard of the Miao nationality told him fortune-telling, telling him the loneliness of his life, the soul hurt by the war, unable to regain the courage to pursue happiness.

At this time, the old man found out that he had a terminal illness. At this time, on his birthday, the son asked him to go to a nursing home, but the old man scolded him out of the house.


The above use of violence to suppress violence is recognized in our common sense, and it has been sympathized and recognized like a self-defense counterattack. But at the subsequent level, how can we ordinary people really be so brave to live under violence? Threatened by violence, what can we do to protect ourselves without being hurt? 26.gif

Tao started a self-supporting life with the help of the old man, but the Asian gang didn't let him go, robbed him of his tools, and his cousin burned his face with cigarette butts.

Seeing this, my patriotic inferiority complex came out again, why do you always choose Asians? 26.gif26.gif26.gif26.gif The


old man looked at it, this is not bad, he dared to break ground on the head of justice. So he ran to the gang and beat him to avenge Tao. I don't feel happy watching it at all, I'm just scared, very scared, I'm scared of greater revenge.

Just imagine if this happened to me, I couldn't turn to social forces and could only be bullied. Then I might choose two paths. One is that I can't be provoked. I can't hide it. Why should I live with the scum. Of course, the premise is that I have the ability to run around. One is to fight thoroughly. I don't do anything, I just concentrate on finding a way to kill him every day. 19.gif19.gif19.gif19.gif

As long as I can live and cross my heart, I will definitely choose the former method.


Unexpectedly, Tao's house was shot at night by machine guns, and Su was gang-raped by the cousins ​​who were gangsters, and was beaten into a bloody mess.

Seeing this, I burst into tears. Such a proud Su, smart, witty and individual, kind to slowly melt the hard heart of the dead old man, and also helps and educates his younger brother Tao. In the end, he was also gang-raped by a hooligan, and was gang-raped by his cousin.

Seeing this, I thought, what is the most powerful force in this world, violence! ! ! ! It can destroy all ingenuity, destroy all pride, destroy all hope of existence.

With trembling hands, the old man carefully cleaned the barrel of the gun, hid the diagnosis of terminal illness, gave the old car to Tao, went to the suit shop to make a new suit, got his hair cut, and then told his old friend to take care. I was thinking, does the old man want to use his last life to suppress violence with violence?

Take the machine guns and swipe these hooligans and kill them all. But after the picture came out of my mind, I didn't feel the resentment at all. It just feels that the deep scar in my heart has always existed, reminding that Tao and Su's self-esteem and pride have been completely destroyed by violence.

Even if the hooligan is slashed by a thousand swords, it cannot eliminate the pain of being hurt. Using violence to suppress violence is not enough to heal the pain in the heart, and you cannot surpass your own pain.


What did the old man do? The old man locked the sad and angry Tao in the basement. He went to the base of the hooligans by himself, took out the momentum of using violence to control violence in the past, and used his hand to scare the hooligans. When he reached out for a lighter, the gangsters who were so frightened together shot and killed the old man.

With all the evidence available, a group of hooligans were arrested on murder charges. The old man planned the last incident of violence against violence.

Tao and Su's pain should be punished by the hooligan, and the old man's spirit of dedication will slowly heal. It seems like a tragicomedy. But the content it contains changes with the audience's experience of life, that is, a movie that can be enjoyed by both refined and popular people. Looking at the vulgarity, I want to say why the American hero with the American spirit is the hero of the Asians. Looking at it more elegantly, I want to say that the old man finally told us that using violence to control violence is not the best way, because the pain cannot be healed, and the pain can only be surpassed by going beyond the violence.

Thanks for watching - finished

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Gran Torino quotes

  • [walking over to some black thugs]

    Walt Kowalski: What are you spooks up to?

  • Walt Kowalski: I'm no hero. I was just trying to get that babbling gook off my lawn!