Friday, March 13, 2009

Gran Torino

Aw heck, what's not to like? This tale of the gradual rehabilitation of an unreconstructed racist old duffer ticks all the right boxes, though some of the performances are a bit dodgy and the script somewhat lame... but who cares? Clint is amazing throughout. He spends the first half of the movie doing little esle but growling, but these are virtuouso growls, I tell you. Good stuff.

How's the maths?
Ah, the old question. Not much here, punk. but I have been wondering about the possibility of using movies like this to develop a proof of some mathematical theorems. My current one? Every movie is almost exactly 10% too long. This movie is roughly 120 minutes long, and I definitely flagged around the 108 minute mark. It makes you think, doesn't it?

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  1. By the way, I've started reading movie reviews on the Damaris site (Cn comment on culture, bit like Third Way:)). www.damaris.org, think you have to 'join' (free). In case of interest. Can be a bit long though, yours are more bite-sized and therefore palatable :)

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