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Clint Eastwood's Movie
This movie features the story of three people; Walt, Sue, and Thao. In this movie, the issue of socio-political aspects of human life features. The movie depicts Walt as a famous Korean War Veteran while Sue and Thao were Vietnam War victims. Walt is one of the major characters in the movie. He is an American Assembly line worker who lives in Highland Park, Michigan. He is handling a 50-year-old marriage after having been with his wife through a tumultuous life. He fought in the Korean War and survived. When America launched a war against the Vietnamese, Sue and Thao took part in it: they managed to survive.
Social and political issues
In this war, a social aspect is seen in the life of Walt. In his place of residence in Michigan, poor Asian immigrants inhabit the place. Their presence has raised concerns about the security of the place (Sterritt, 2012). As seen in the movie, there are several organized criminal gangs in existence in this area. There is also another aspect of social despair among the people living here. Because of the low economic status of the place, the poor Asian immigrants have resorted to unorthodox means of making an income. They have threatened the lives of the many people living in this place. As such, the people...
There is also a social despair occasioned by the dilapidated living conditions in the environment. It is also evident that the living conditions in this place have changed for the worse as the people keep encountering undesirable effects of the excessive populations within here. People also fail to encounter a good living due to the effect of the criminal activities.
There emerges a political aspect in the issues of the wars that are fought here. The issues are common between the two wars. In both cases, the mentioned American characters here take part. The interactions among them portray an aspect of betrayal and bad blood. For instance, Walt poses a discomfort and a danger to the life of Sue and Thao. To prevent him from causing further damage, Thao engages him in a talk with the view of plotting Walt's murder. The aim here was to secure freedom for them. The political freedom for the two people (Thao and Sue) was guaranteed and safe in the hands of the people who bothered to take care of them. In the movie, it is seen that the characters all pledge some allegiance to their state governments (Sterritt, 2012).
The war considers them as heroes: the same is…
Work Cited
Sterritt, David. The Films of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America. New York: Paperbag,
2012. Print.
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