Dialogo - Gran Torino

Fiquei muito impressionado com os dialogos do filme. Nao o consigo explicar bem. Talvez seja o "smart juggling" de estereotipos/preconceitos ao longo do filme que na minha opiniao retrata tao bem esta sociedade tao racialmente e culturalmente complexa.

Walt and Sue drive in silence. Finally Sue speaks up.

SUE
So, what's with you, you have some
sort of savior complex or
something?

WALT
What in the hell's the matter with
you? I thought all you Asian
girls were supposed to be so
smart. What are you doing walking
around in that neighborhood?
That's how you end up in the
obituaries, that is, if they can
identify your body once they pull
it out of the goddamned river.

SUE
I know, I know. Take it easy.
Walt looks at her for a second. She's not ruffled at
all.
They drive.

WALT
So, that goofball back there.
He's your boyfriend?

SUE
Yeah, kind of, his name is Trey.

WALT
Why in the hell would you go out
with a clown like that. Why don't
you date one of your... own...one
of those other... Hu-mungs.

SUE
You mean, Hmong? We're Hmong, not
Hu-mung.

WALT
Right. Hmong. What is a... where
is Hmong or whatever?
Sue laughs.

SUE
Wow! You're so enlightened.
Hmong isn't a place, it's a
people.

39.
Hmong people come from different
parts of Laos and Thailand and
China.

WALT
Then why are you in my
neighborhood, instead of back
there?

SUE
It's a Vietnam thing. We fought
on your side and when America
quit, the Communists starting
killing the Hmong, so we came over
here.
Walt is quiet for few seconds.

WALT
Why'd you pick the Midwest, for
Christ's sake? There's snow on
the ground near half the year.
Jungle people on the frozen
tundra?

SUE
Hill people. We were hill people,
not jungle people. Boo-ga, boo-
ga, boo-ga.

WALT
Whatever.

SUE
Blame the Lutherans. They brought
us here.

WALT
Still, you'd think the cold would
keep all the assholes away.
Sue laughs again at Walt's conscienceless racism. (Muito BOM)

SUE
Thanks for the ride.

WALT
Sure... You know, you seem okay.
What the hell's the matter with
your half-wit brother? He a
little slow or something?

38

SUE
Tao is actually really bright, he
just doesn't know which direction
to go in.

WALT
Oh, poor Toad.

SUE
It's really common. Hmong girls
over here fit in better, we
adjust. The girls go to college,
the boys go to jail.