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Setting

  • Detroit area
  • focuses on two problems of that city: deindustrialization and racism
  • some Ford plants are based in that metro area
  • setting is not really highlighted
  • audience only knows that Kowalski lives in the Midwest and that he used to work in a Ford factory
  • Walt‘s neighbourhood has changed and he is not very happy about it
  • he himself, his house and car stand out in the neighbourhood
    \(\rightarrow\) Walt has experienced the glamorous, industrialized, thriving Detroit (as the motor city) and its downfall as well
    \(\rightarrow\) tends his lawn meticulously, mows it with a manual lawn mower
    \(\rightarrow\) represets muscularity and masculinity of Walt
  • Walt‘s garden vs. Vang Lor‘s garden
    \(\rightarrow\) Walt’s garden: green, lush and well kept
    \(\rightarrow\) Vang Lor‘s garden: untidy, greying
    \(\rightarrow\) highlights divide between two cultures
  • downfall of Detroit is seen in Gran Torino through the decayed and dangerous areas
    \(\rightarrow\) Sue and her date are walking around in such an area and are promptly attacked
  • chooses to stay in the neighbourhood even though he feels surrounded by Hmong people
    \(\rightarrow\) looks down the class ladder at his neighbours
    \(\rightarrow\) neighbourhood has become inhabited by mostly Hmong people
  • Thao driving along the lake in the Gran Torino with dog Daisy at his side at the end of the movie
    \(\rightarrow\) heads into a better world with a better prospective of the future
    \(\rightarrow\) atmosphere of change

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