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Forrest Gump is one unique movie...There's no antagonist and there's no conventional plot structure to the story. Instead we see Forrest go through life and experience it from the eyes of a child. Even as an adult Forrest Gump is very child like in how he views the world around him. He sees life without cynicism or bitterness, his is an open book and despite his slowness he embraces life and life embraces him. He's a lucky man.
But this is no fluffy-sappy movie. We see that Jenny is the antithesis of Forrest. Jenny goes through hell in her life. She's sexual abused as a little girl, and ends up a lost soul. She's someone that life has chewed up and spat out. Life is so hard for Jenny that she tries to kill her pain with drugs. At the end she doesn't even want to live...While thousands of miles away, simple Forest only wants to be with his true love, Jenny. He can see the good in her, thanks to his own simple mindedness.
Definitely a deep movie and one that surprised me with it's sophisticated film making, and deeper than you might think story telling.
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Forrest Gump (1994)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Winston Groom (novel), Eric Roth (screenplay)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Genre: Fantasy Drama, Romance
Movies are like a box of chocolates...you have to poke your finger into a whole bunch of them before you find that special one. Forrest Gump is like that lone caramel covered chocolate, that when you find it, it's very rewarding...and tasty too!Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Winston Groom (novel), Eric Roth (screenplay)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Genre: Fantasy Drama, Romance
"The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75."
Forrest Gump is one unique movie...There's no antagonist and there's no conventional plot structure to the story. Instead we see Forrest go through life and experience it from the eyes of a child. Even as an adult Forrest Gump is very child like in how he views the world around him. He sees life without cynicism or bitterness, his is an open book and despite his slowness he embraces life and life embraces him. He's a lucky man.
But this is no fluffy-sappy movie. We see that Jenny is the antithesis of Forrest. Jenny goes through hell in her life. She's sexual abused as a little girl, and ends up a lost soul. She's someone that life has chewed up and spat out. Life is so hard for Jenny that she tries to kill her pain with drugs. At the end she doesn't even want to live...While thousands of miles away, simple Forest only wants to be with his true love, Jenny. He can see the good in her, thanks to his own simple mindedness.
Definitely a deep movie and one that surprised me with it's sophisticated film making, and deeper than you might think story telling.
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