Through the forest of life

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2000)

I have never seen a screenplay that can measure up to Eric Roth's screenplay of `Forrest Gump' in it's original structure, intelligence and unique approach to life analysis and its treatment, and the direction so powerful, expert and spectacular in a major Hollywood motion picture like Robert Zemeckis's in this one.
I have also never seen a film so complete and deep, never seen a dream fantasy presented on the screen so successfully, never seen a human being so special as Forrest is, and never felt a movie experience that was so moving and touching. It's a fictious character and a fictious plot, but if I haven't known that, I would have said that I believe that the film is based on a true story with a few adaptions and plot point changes. Eventhough Forrest goes through the most unplausible situations one can go through.
I doubt that anyone will observe life the same way after seeing this movie. A lot of them will say that the movie was stupid and overdone, but deep inside they'll remember it forever. The promotional tagline of the movie truly is the point of it and its message. That's what the creators accomplished, and in such an unexpected and unique way that you really start to wonder was the quality of this movie maybe reached by a complete accident. The tagline and the feather prove that it wasn't.
I find `Forrest Gump' original, intelligent, wise, sly, balanced, complex, heartwarming, unbelievably dynamic, witty in one-of-a-kind manner, endlessly touching and enchanting, extraordinary and magical. And, for that matter, one of the best American motion pictures in the history of filmmaking.