The Empire of Wishful thinking

Rating: 3/10 (1 January 2008)

Every liberal ought to see this movie and have their faith restored in America. Forrest Gump starts running after kicking off his braces left from a polio infection and never stops. His task is to overcome his borderline IQ, 75, just below the edge of normalcy and his trek takes him on a course through the Vietnam Era, the war, the unrest and the post - Vietnam malaise.
This is an excellent movie for a liberal to reinforce the twin pillars of liberalism: (a) universal guilt shared by all except liberals and (b)moral superiority of liberalism.
On such sublime matters, Forrest Gump however is clueless. He thinks of the Vietnam War as a long walk in the jungle and he's waiting on a check for 'the million dollar wound' that got him out of the combat zone. He visits the White House to receive a medal and inadvertently addresses a peace rally the same day.
He never loses sight of his objective his true love Jenny who has turned away from values of any kind and embraced the drug culture of the Vietnam era. As much as Forrest is guilty of living in wishful thinking so too are the admirers of this movie.
As I see our liberal friends watching this with moist eyes, they're living in the delusion that just somewhere there must be legions of young men like Bubba and Forrest ready to go over yonder as clueless as Forrest.
I gave this film a "3" because I did enjoy the liberal world's perception of people on the outside of its snobbish feeling of moral superiority.