He's Forrest Gump, and I'm enchanted

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2000)

It is very easy to be cynical about this movie. Totally implausible? Yep. Over sentimental? Without doubt. Overrated? Of course. But through all these things that you could that would make this sound like an awful movie, there is one thing that you cannot deny. This movie moved people. Told from the naive and Simple-minded Gump, it trawls through Vietnam, the US Hippy Age, and numerous events at the Whitehouse, showing that Gump has had a far more interesting life than he would ever let on. It is essentially a love story, as he continues in his mission to win over his childhood sweet heart. It is told completely in flash back until the last few minutes, and as a brilliant Tom Hanks unravels the story for his audience, delivering line after line of unknowing yet amazingly poignant statements, you sort of realise just how good it was to be totally ignorant things. Maybe this movie was not as great as everyone said it was. In realisation, it did not deserve the heap of Oscars it got. But for two hours, this innocent guy reminded us what it was like to be youthful in mind, totally free of cynicism. And I for one, have got no problem whatsoever with that. *****