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La Hanie About The Grunwaiski Story
The lesson that contained in the scene of film La Hanie about the ‘Grunwaiski Story’ that the boys listened to in the public toilet is that we must let go out pride as pride might bring us to death. In the toilet scene, when the main character of Vinz and Hubert are arguing over what is the right course of action to take when they are interrupted by an elderly French citizen. Then suddenly, one old man in the toilet talk to trio about his friend Grunwaiski who died due to his inability to let go of his pride because he did not like to go to the toilet in front of the other men on the train during a Siberian work camp. From this scene, we can learned that pride is not everything as it can brings us to death if we cannot put it down and we

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