Year of publication: 2008
Film Director: Clint Eastwood
Medium: Film
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In a nutshell: It tell's the tale of a war veteran living in a run down area that used to be at the forefront of american economic providence but is now filled with Hmong immigrants. Mr Kowalski gradually learns to accept the neighborhood in which he lives in, and befriends his neighbour in particular a young boy named Thao. Thaos family is under constant threat from a neighborhood gang which is run by Thaos cousin. After Mr Kowalski helps Thaos family from the gang the neighborhood recognise as him as a hero. However Mr Kowalski denies all the grattitude he gets from the neighborhood. After saving Sue from a gang of African Americans Walt …show more content…
One day Walt begins to teach Thao how to behave and talk as a man as well as help Thao find a job in order to pay for his school education, one day after coming home from work Thao is grabbed by his cousins gang and burned for humiliating his cousin in front of his own gang. After which Walt finds out about and then begins to track down the gang and threatens the gang into leaving Thao alone, after this is done the gang pulls a drive by shooting at Thaos house and also beat and rape Thaos sister Sue. After seeing this Walt is filled with rage and begins to partly destroy his house, the next day padre comes to visit Walt after the police had left the neighborhood and at that time padre and Walt have a long discussion on what would be the right thing to do at the given time. The following day Walt spends time bringing himself to peace by first going to confession and by fitting himself a suit in preparation for his inevitable death that is soon to come. When the time has come to confront the gang Walt locks Thao within his basement after telling him of his experiences in Korea and what it is like to kill another man, when Walt confronts the gang he pretends as if he was