The Clean Livin' Republican's Handbook

Rating: Null/10 (9 April 2003)

A slyly reactionary movie - kinda the republican's handbook for good,
clean livin'. 'Gump' would like to perpetuate the myth that the best way
to get ahead in today's America is to be asexual, stupid and do as
you're told...Heaven forbid you should be a peace-loving, free thinking
liberal - for your troubles you should expect a childhood filled with
abuse, followed by drug-addled suicidal tendencies, an unhappy love-life
and, ultimately, death by a coyly unspecified disease.

In short, 'Forrest Gump' is about as politically progressive as 'Reefer
Madness', and the movie's technical proficiency just makes it's message
all the more unpalatable..............3/10
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