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Gran Torino By Walt Kowalski

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Gran Torino
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changing of his neighborhood in Michigan and the world around him in general. He's a old tough minded grumpy war veteran whose prize posession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. Then when his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from a gang that his cousin runs cons him into trying to steal the Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Basically setting foot into the lives of Thao's family, in another word taking actions daily to protect them from the infest of bad people in the neighborhood.

Nonverbal communication comes to mind instantly at the moment when Walt is invited over to Thao's house by his sister Sue on the

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