Netflix’s #1 movie this week, “A man called Otto,” convinced me to write this letter to The Dispatch. What a realistic, wonderful movie I have watched! Otto (Tom Hanks), though grumpy in the entire movie, acted supremely in the movie and what an ending!
This movie is adapted almost exactly from an earlier-released Swedish movie, “A man called OVE,” which I have seen immediately after finishing Otto. The movie tells a lot, even if you do not understand the language. Hat’s off to the story writer, director and actors.
I realized after seeing the movie that a grumpy old man is far better than those who are always smiling, such as politicians and corporate leaders.
Seemingly it doesn’t matter to those smiling leaders of political parties that gun deaths are becoming a number one disease in the U.S.
Gun violence leading to gun deaths shouldn’t be considered accidents.
Accidents do happen every day but why are gun deaths occurring every day in the USA? The USA is almost a perfect country, where longevity should be lengthened, but guns are irrationally cutting short many lives.
Sadly, I find we are not giving equal rights to humans. It took many years to give some equality between men and women. And now regarding another recent issue of LGBTQIA, the politicians are not treating them as human. Some states are taking off their rights. If we believe in God, they are also made accordingly as man and woman.
Dear Dispatch readers, please see the movie and I am sure at the end you may feel tear-jerking.
Jiben Roy
Columbus
Jiben Roy, a native of Bangladesh, teaches chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at Mississippi University for Women. His email address is [email protected].
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