ABSTRACT

Like much of Clint Eastwood’s late work, Gran Torino is a film that directly addresses themes and images of old age. It is also a film about mortality. This article discusses the imagery of mirrors and reflections in the film and way they are used symbolically and structurally to highlight and explore issues of aging, entropy, and death. Drawing on Kathleen Woodward’s notion of a mirror stage of old age, it argues that Walt moves from rejection of the aging self to a form of acceptance, albeit one that uses the heroic persona to effectively bypass natural mortality.

中文翻译：

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对死亡的反思：克林特·伊斯特伍德 (Clint Eastwood) 的《都灵》(Gran Torino) 中的镜子意象

摘要

像克林特·伊斯特伍德后期的大部分作品一样，都灵是一部直接针对老年主题和形象的电影。这也是一部关于死亡的电影。本文讨论了电影中镜子和反射的图像，以及它们在象征性和结构上被用来突出和探索衰老、熵和死亡问题的方式。借鉴凯瑟琳·伍德沃德 (Kathleen Woodward) 的老年镜像阶段的概念，它认为沃尔特从拒绝衰老的自我转变为一种接受形式，尽管这种形式使用英雄角色来有效地绕过自然死亡。