Gran Torino (2018) | White Saviors & Casual Racism

Red Rose Film Club

Hal and Craig return to watching some latter-career Clint Eastwood films, this time it's Clint's 2008 film GRAN TORINO, a movie made for old white people to feel okay about being racist! Fun? Discussion also includes:

• The new season of Black Mirror;
• Clive Barker's Faustian novel THE DAMNATION GAME;
• The best airplane movies;
• An update on the Tampa 5, the five people arrested in Tampa for protesting Ron DeSantis' anti-DEI efforts;
• Which of Clint Eastwood's children he dislikes the most; and
• A quick history of the Hmong people.

RESOURCES & LINKS:

More info on the Tampa 5:

• https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2023/06/22/tampa-five-usf-protest-diversity-lauren-pineiro-arrest

• http://www.fightbacknews.org/2023/4/19/florida-statewide-protest-demands-justice-tampa-5-drop-charges

• https://naarpr.org/updates/drop-the-charges-now-defend-student-activists-justice-for-the-tampa-5/

More info on the Hmong People:

• https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/chart/top-10-u-s-metropolitan-areas-by-hmong-population-2019/)
• https://www.hmongamericancenter.org/
• https://iimn.org/publication/finding-common-ground/minnesotas-refugees/asia/hmong/