Gran Torino Hits European Theatres by Storm

Kowalski basically tells a priest, “It is not those horrible things or killings you did [in war] because you were ordered to which haunt [you], it is those horrible things you have done without being told to do them.”

This is a poignant thought, eh?

Too often we (as peace makers) try to awaken guilt for crimes committed by soldiers—regardless as to whether these soldiers are from fascist lands, communist-run countries, or very mentally-confused Islamic tribes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8039257.stm

The killing guilt is, though, the kind of guilt we have when we know that no demagogue, officer or fascist ordered us to commit them.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_Powell_aide_says_Bush_Cheney_0510.html

This guilt might even include the sense of guilt in building weapons (by our own firms) for some of us if that is the case.

http://www.knowmore.org/wiki/index.php?title=Monsanto_Company

Such a sense of guilt can not be corrected in any straight-forward way because there are so many internal and psychological cover-ups of our own guilt that none of our friends or family may ever scratch the surface or help us transcend the sense of guilt for non-acting to stop violence before it happened(s).

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/01/theater/review-theater-a-dead-jewish-mother-and-layers-of-guilt.html

This means are unwillingness to go to jail to stop war.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/07/cia-analysts-willing-to-go-to-jail-to-ensure-nies-release/

This means that our willingness to take a chance and help-the-other will mean us having to take a bullet for the other.

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/391113

The film GRAN TORINO’s storyline and critical self-reflection handles this theme ‘of taking a bullet” to some great degree and shows why Clint Eastwood’s films are getting better as he ages--and is no longer allowing the rest of the world dictate his narration.

In short, the ugly-nasty-mouthed-hero Kowalski (also from a family of polish immigrants a century earlier) handles the concept of suicide attack better than many characters in most other films of any similar genre.

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