Who coincidentally just happen to be Hmong. Why the storyline of him being a "bigot" in the first place? Is that also just a coincidence?
Do you think he was a bigot?
He was a crotchety, yet ethical, old man
whose non-pc attitude wasn’t based on racial hatred.
His conversation with his barber was laced with ethnic comments
but there was no bigotry behind it.
If he were truly a bigot
he could not have so easily become friends with his neighbors.
His demon from the past was his shooting of a surrendering soldier.
Do you think he would have acted differently if it had been a German soldier?
Would he have had to save some European family in order to be redeemed?
Or would the saving of the Hmong family have accomplished the same result?
I guess what I’m saying is that race is incidental to the story being told.
It is a story of good vs evil and redemption that trancends race