Everything a movie should be!

Rating: 10/10 (19 May 2008)

If Eric Roth looks at this -- would be honored to say thank you for "Forest Gump". I know several more remote and esoteric films, but every time I see Forest Gump I come apart at the seams, more Kleenex each time... and it's so worth it! Love is woven alongside tragedy it in a way that makes me feel I'm riding one big crane shot of life. Gump strips down what it means to be human in such a pure and heartbreaking way. I know film is a collaborative medium (and though I'm pretty sure Tom Hanks is our best bargaining chip for sparing the planet if we ever have negotiate with hostile aliens, but his brilliance aside...) as a screenwriter, I want to thank writers like Eric Roth and Winston Groom for being the creating inception of a film so beautiful, it inspires the rest of us -- especially me -- to keep aspiring to make something good and to believe it's worth it to try.
Thank you.
Jilena Cori PS: Maybe I'll go blubber all over Tom Hanks' message board now... damn, outta Kleenex...