ABOUT SCHMIDT appear as quite an ordinary movie at first.
He has just lost his wife and retired from his job.
Both of which he didn't appreciate very much anyway.

An hour into the movie, despite all his misadventures - Schmidt was still actiing all miserable and annoying.

Towards the ending, Schmidt still felt that his 66 years of existence has been hardly significant.
As he walked into his writing room, he was visibly a broken man.

His table was pilled with letters but one particular caught his attention.
It was a personal letter from a poor African country.
It was from the charity home which he had been sponsoring a child.
A caretaker had replied to his letters (sponsors were encourage to write to the child) and had written on the little boy's behalf.
She enclosed a picture drawn by the sponsored child.

Schmidt held the picture and cried.

Now, that feeling I can relate.

That's why I love correspondence so much.
-the old fashioned way.