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About Schmidt
Scene description: At the end of the film, Warren Schmidt receives a letter from a Tanzanian boy thanking him for his response.
About Schmidt raises the question of a meaningful life, namely, what consititutues one. After a failed existential journey where Schmidt is trying to connect with people in a meaningful way he returns home resigned to a life that could be characterized as empty. Out of the blue he receives the letter from this Tanzanian child thanking him for his gifts and letters and wishing him much happiness. Finally, the emotions break through and Schmidt ends the film crying as he has finally found some sort of purpose. I think this film could be best used in the context of asking the question of what is a meaningful life. The film's answer is in affecting other people and being affected by them, no matter how remote that relationship may be (in this case across the world.) As believers, I suppose the question then comes with how we can find something in common with this (the importance of relationships) but also we experience dissonance (the impermenance of temporal relationships.)
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