I'm off from work today, so you know that means it's pouring rain outside. With the weather being lousy (yet again), Erin and I were forced to find ways to entertain ourselves indoors. We painted a little in her paint with water book, she exhibited to me her budding collection of her own artwork, and we played "This little piggy" until neither one of us could stand it anymore. Then, when Miss Spider came on the television, I escaped to my room and ordered up the Clint Eastwood movie "Gran Torino" on demand.
If you have not yet seen Gran Torino, I highly reccommend it. It is an exceptional work of art, one of the best live-action films I've had the pleasure to see in the past 10 years. It deals with a lonely, broken man in the twilight of his life who is tired of witnessing firsthand the degradation of the community he toiled in and loved all his life, and begins to do something about it. It is a movie about responsibility, faith, repentance, selflessness, prejudice, community, and salvation. It doesn't hurt that his car, from which the movie derives its title, is a gorgeous, shining example of American muscle, hailing from the days before gas crises and government regulation neutered domestic automobiles. It is Eastwood's best movie since "Unforgiven". It is definitely one that we will look to add to our collection of DVD's.
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