A unique film for the soft-hearted!

Rating: Null/10 (28 April 2003)

Just watched again last Sunday. I really didn't want to, because I find the film somewhat melancholy, but my girlfriend insisted. Don't like movies that deal with death and loss all that much.
I see a lot of differing opinions about this movie that it was about stupid people from the south, that it's a morality play, that it shows that anyone can succeed.
I really don' think that the director wanted to have such a heavy handed obvious movie at all. This movie is like a painting, not a linear story. It was not about the South, Forest Gump, or Vietnam. It was about life! There were parts of it that were silly, made me laugh, and yeah, tear up (when his mother was sick and dying).
So, like every film ever made it has it's flaws and is imperfect. It will work with some people and not with others. But I found it to have moments, scenes of mesmerizing beauty that really got to a part of the human soul that a few movies try, but fail to reach.