The Psychology of Gran Torino
Eastwood’s Gran Torino is a love letter to what psychologist John Ray calls “the old-fashioned personality.” (Here‘s my quick intro to the paper). Who else but Eastwood could so compellingly dramatize Ray’s conclusion that “when pejorative assumptions are discarded,
the old-fashioned person would appear to have many potentially
admirable characteristics”?
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