A man called Otto

President Clinton once said: Only one actor can play my character as he has the emotional depth to play any biography, and it's Tom Hanks. Over the years, it also never changed for me since I watched Forrest Gump. If you ask me one actor, I will put him on top of all the actors in Hollywood. One and only Tom Hanks.

Last year was darn busy at work. It kept me away from reading books, watching movies, and traveling. Life was too tasteless. While on my way back from Montreal, Air Canada was kind enough to give me an upgrade, and I watched his last year release "A Man Called Otto."

What a beautiful love story and a story of human bonding. Clint Eastwood is the only person who could have played such a complicated role besides Tom Hanks.

It is a story that tells us why good people go on a path to suicide and how they return, as they don't want other humans to suffer pain. If they can pull their weight to make a difference in their life, they will go out of their way to do it. This story tells us how a man and a woman stick together despite one partner getting disabled and or can't have children all their life. How two fighting neighbors are the best friend. The movie also touched on the power of rising social media. How old actual intended America is dying (Manual vs. automatic cars' symbol), and how greedy real estate mafia is destroying societies and neighborhoods. All these and other complicated issues are tackled in a simple-looking storyline.

The movie starts with Ottto as an irritated suit-tie-styled man who is hard to approach and how a Mexican immigrant woman thaws that ice, and the beautiful stories start flowing to us. It tells us how an innocent young man turns into a grumpy old man.

It is an interesting storyline, where Otto's wife dies, and he losses his job – and so he decides to commit suicide but keeps postponing his suicide as he feels someone needs his help, or he can make a difference. 

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