The movie Gran Torino is one of those exceptions in Hollywood where social political ideas clash with true artistry. It’s a movie about now and how the relationships that bind us also tear our community apart. Economic class, religion, social opportunity, and race define our culture as democratic ideals shape the fabric of our country. Gran Torino pushes its racist chauvinistic lead in our face and asks us to acknowledge that there are people that talk like him and act like him in every family. He is a catalyst to which all our anger and mockery of each others skin color comes to head. The movie doesn’t filter itself through magic “we are the world” propaganda, but instead enlightens its viewers on a quest to personal empowerment. Only we have the power to erase racism and it isn’t going to go away without people making an effort. No matter what your skin color there is a sort of “code” or equality amongst your “people”. The characters of Gran Torino crash into each other making a lot of noise, but not saying anything that will champion a cause of love between race. 
The commodity here is voice, one can not have a voice that lends itself to go against the ideas of your community. The young boy is asked to join a gang out of pure family obligation because Mongol's must follow their own. Black gangs are young men who listen to rap and use their egos to voice “Life has put us down” mob mentalities. Its all very stereotypical in a way; because we all know that some truth lies in its accurate portrayals of the human existence. Life is poor- so our ideas must be poor because violence teaches us that the weak can be over powered and greed has importance. Money is a true commodity, but it rarely serves as deep of a service as brotherhood with malicious intent. If you live in fear of your voice than you have no choice but to live in a society where murder isn’t rare. The stories in this movie are interwoven as a tapestry of social class indignities and slum environments that breed hatred and resentment. For me its a beautiful movie because it speaks true of our fears and that race only separates us because we allow it to. I’m always thinking about why racism ignites our fear and how violence within our own class identifies our importance in society. A poor degenerate is low on the class scale, but high on the fear scale. These problems will always exist because division among us has always set our importance. There is no simple answer on how to solve this because generations of people believe in what they are taught and what they see. I’m hopeless in searching for answers to why we can’t change. It can’t be because there are just too many of us. The deeper the resentment for one another the longer it will take to heal our scars.
Move Fix: ***** A movie with more than just a message.
