![]() For Walt, his act eases the haunting memory of his killing of an enemy prisoner in Korea, a boy not unlike Thao. By dying, Walt spares the life and innocence of Thao, the neighbor boy intent on exacting revenge for the gang's rape of his sister. Confronting a gang that has terrorized his adopted family of immigrant Hmong neighbors, the cantankerous Polish-American autoworker and Korean War vet, Walt, goads the thugs into murdering him before witnesses, thereby saving the community. N THE CLOSING SCENES OF CLINT EASTWOOD'S 2008 FILM GRAN TORINO, THE STORIES OF one man's personal redemption and another's dream of achieving independent manhood came together in two life defining moments: one of self-sacrifice, and the other, a rite of passage into manhood. ![]()
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