Gran Torino

Gran Torino was about a man named Walt Kowalski, who was a Veteran from the Korean War. He slowly became closer with his neighbors Thao and Sue after saving them from their cousins in a gang. The gang would not leave them alone and did anything to bring them pain and suffering so Walt decided that he needed to take action. Gran Torino showed cultural differences between Walt's neighbors and the Hmong Gangs of the neighborhood. His neighbors Thao, Sue and their family were in touch with their culture and they celebrated like their ancestors. The gangs had fallen out of right and wrong and thought nothing about anything but crime and havoc. Walt realized that the world of Thao and Sue would be filled with awful things until the gang was put away so he sacrificed himself for a lifetime of safety for the kids.

"Walt Kowalski, a retired Polish American Ford factory worker and Korean War veteran, has recently been widowed, which is made further difficult by the generational clash between him and his sons' families. His neighborhood in Highland Park, Michigan, formerly populated by working-class white families, is now dominated by poor Asian immigrants; gang violence is commonplace."
-Wikipedia

"Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy an old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors, a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood."
-alfiehitchie (www.imdb.com)