The film “Gran Torino” presents many examples of “self” versus “subject” and the problems one faces when dealing with aspects of culture and of social construction, the film highlights the modern conditions surrounding many aspects of these two examples. Walt Kowalski, whose wife recently died and who is a veteran of the Korean War, has difficulty getting along with people who do not share the same opinions and values ​​as he does. Some of these people are his children, his relatives and his neighbors. He lives in a time he doesn't understand and doesn't agree with. Since the death of his wife, he stopped communicating with people. Walt lives next to a Hmong family and gradually becomes friends with them. He goes through a very difficult time with this at first, but as the days go by you can see him gradually becoming more comfortable with them. One of the reasons he was a little uncomfortable communicating with his neighbors was the fact that he had once fought and killed these people on the battlefields of Korea. Analyzing the film “Gran Torino” through the work of Foucault, panopticism, we clearly see that Walt could be classified as “the observer” and his neighbors as those who are being watched. There are many scenes in the film in which Walt plays the role of "the observer", one of them being when the neighbor across the street struggles to carry her groceries inside while A group of teenagers pass by without asking her if she needs help. Another example would be when he attends his wife's funeral and his grandchildren are very disrespectful by not wearing appropriate clothing or not using their cell phones. Walt's social and cultural construction differs from that of those around him. The teenagers who don't help the lady with her shopping object to everything Wal...... middle of paper ...... being a veteran being one of the most efficient, Walt has also worked in the automobile industry and had a very traditional and patriotic way of handling situations. An example would be Walt's disappointment with his son's choice of automobile; he thought his son should have bought something made in the United States instead of Japan. His guilt also plays a major role in how he lives his life; he killed and saw people killed while he was at war. This subjectivity can explain why Walt acts the way he does and what influences Walt's judgments about reality and how one should act. These three literary works can all be linked together and linked to the film “Gran Torino”. Looking through the lens of Foucault's panopticism, one can see the deeper meaning of Walt's actions and how he treats those around him, and also how they treat him..