and Bee Vang seems to have missed the entire point of the film. This was to show that Walt had grown and that he had re-evaluated his racist views after getting to know his Hmong neighbors. Walt served as a commentary that other older people in society could also change, grow and re-evaluate previously prejudiced points of view. Walt sacrificed his own life to save them from the gangs that would have otherwise continued to terrorize them, so it's quite the stretch to say that the film supported racism.
Exactly. The film was actually anti-racism... in the same way that Unforgiven was really anti-violent themed. As an actor in the film, Bee Vang should have easily understood this. Walt wasn't being glorified for his views, but rather shown as being ignorant and so wrong with these views. I remember thinking at the time that Gran Torino was just like All in the Family where Archie Bunker so often threw out racist stuff but it was to show how wrong he was, not to laugh at it. There were tons of humor in the show, but not with Archie's racist slurs. And I agree with AKA that most sensible people who saw Gran Torino knew exactly what Clint intended with the movie and Walt's character.
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