When choosing, Gran Torino, I took into consideration that I wanted to completely start from scratch when beginning to apply these social theories to ongoing social problems. I believe that doing so, I was more open minded to social issues and subtle conflicts that I may have overlooked in movies I had already seen. I could have applied many other theories to the movie to aid in the explanation of social problems discussed in the movie for example; Kondrat’s Person-in-Environment theory as there were many issues with a few characters that suffered from environmental issues that prevented them from moving forward, there were also some environmental issues for characters that pushed them to think about the social problems previously overlooked.
