five by five » movie http://michalk.id.au/5x5 michael's adventures .. in the world Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:36:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gran Torana makes me cry http://michalk.id.au/5x5/2009/03/gran-torana-cry/ http://michalk.id.au/5x5/2009/03/gran-torana-cry/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:35:32 +0000 mic http://michalk.id.au/5x5/?p=475 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> GRAN TORINO- the asian pirate cuti’ve never been a big fan of Clint Eastwood, but i must now admit he is a genius. Went to see Gran Torino with michael on the weekend, and i was in floods of tears.

Can’t write too much about it here because i don’t have any way to conceal the spoiler effect .. but the grumpy old man character arc i found astonishing, refreshing, touching!

And yes, when i thought the movie would be about a car, because i kept mispronouncing it Torana .. turns out i was right about that.

So i’m off to the Movie Reel in Westgarth to stock up on Clint’s back stories.

Have you seen the movie, and did it make you cry?

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    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     Via Delia at biddyjournal, news of a movie called Hope, which tells the stories of Siev-x. Screening very soon !! At the Nova in Melbourne, and around the whole of Australia.

    i referred to an article in New Matilda a while back, and they’ve since changed all their links: Tony Kevin wrote on the seventh anniversary of the tragedy, describing the heartfelt compassion in the Canberra memorial that so many people struggled to create.

    “Each pole represents compassion, love and acceptance of the stranger Australian values that were in little evidence in Australia during the 2001 election campaign”


    353 people on the boat .. only 7 made it to Australia.

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