1. Characters in Gran Torino
... he was hosting Walts wife Dorothy's funeral he makes a comment of "death is often a bittersweet occasion for us Catholics bitter in the pain sweet in the salvation" which Walt believes is a bull crap comment for the reason that Walt was in the Korean War and saw a lot of death "I lived for almost three years in Korea, we shot men stabbed them with bayonets, hacked seventeen year olds to death with shovels ... stuff I'll remember till the day I die." So as you can tell Walt sees life in a black and white ... tried to be really good and was very agitated but by the end he was very relaxe...
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