one of the best movies ever made

Rating: 10/10 (16 January 2003)

When watching this film, you just have to let yourself get caught up in the movie itself. Looking at the unrealistic aspects of it and critizising them won't allow you to get the full affect of the movie. It is just a story. An illogical one that could never have happened in real life, but if you accept it as being true and let yourself get caught up in it, the story becomes incredible. The story combined with the outstanding acting by the five main characters (Gump, Jenny, Bubba, Lt. Dan, and Momma) shows the influence of major historical events on our society. But it shows it through the eyes of a person that doesn't recognize the importance of each of them. The other characters are affected a great deal. Vietnam killed Bubba. It nearly killed Lt. Dan, but instead sent him into a depression that only Gump's naiveness could have saved him from. And of course Jenny might have been the most influenced of all. She represented an abused child, a runaway, a hippy, a drug addict, a slut, and the aids virus. This girl probably went straight to hell when she died but Gump couldn't see her faults. He was in love, which was the only thing that affected him throughout the movie. Nothing else really mattered to him in the end. He cared for people that cared for him, or that he thought cared for him. He did things for his friends that none of us would ever do because we would be looked at as stupid or crazy. He bought a shrimping boat because of a promise he made to Bubba. What kind of moron would buy a shrimping boat if he had never done any shrimping before in his life. Forrest Gump did and he eventually became a rich man because he didn't know any better. For those of you that don't like this movie, you're looking at it the wrong way. From what I've heard people either love it or hate it. I love it and apparently most other film critics do if it won best picture. Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies and so is Shawshank. They were both incredible and unforgettable. But they weren't quite as good as Forrest Gump.