Forrest Gump (1994)

You may not be blessed with intelligence, good looks, good parenting, good social status or any other common predictors for success but having a good heart can make all the difference in the world. This film is a great modern fable, a fable in the dictionary is defined as a brief fictitious story that teaches a moral. Stripped to its purest essence, this movie is about loyalty and devotion, particularly to the ones in our lives we love and care about. These are the human values being reinforced. Loyalty. Devotion. Forrest Gump embodies loyalty and devotion. To his mama. To his good best buddy Bubba. To the love of his life, Jenny. To his leader, Lt. Dan. And in the end to Forrest Jr. One by one and all together Forrest sticks by and takes care of his family, friends, and loved ones. This is the thread running through the entire story. This is what carries Forrest to all of the remarkable places he goes along the way. In the beginning Forrest is a little slow as his momma said, but as we discover he can do some amazing things no matter of his problems. No matter where he was he was always thinking about the ones who loved, even for someone he knew for a little while, he always saw the good in people. In the end we learn that he is not the ill or the problematic one but that everyone around him were that. He was always enjoying the little things, a thing that we all don't do very often. Forrest was and still is the perfect example of showing children who feel they are different from others that they can do anything that they put their mind too. Forrest experience life and loving a girl that was too afraid to love him back in fear of hurting him and because of what others would say. This is a powerful yet charming movie; fun for its special effects and profound in how it keeps you thinking long after it's over. Like others, I've seen this movie more than once. Everybody should see this at least once to see how beautiful things are through Forrest Gump's eyes. He is a completely free human being, in the matter he doesn't have any biases or stiff beliefs. I think everyone can learn a lot from this uncomplicated man, who does what he believes is right, without turning away from his goal, no matter if it happens' to involve running across America for three years... What Forrest Gump did mattered, he fulfilled his destiny. Now it is the question of whether we fulfilled ours.
Rating: 10/10 Orange Slices Extra Pulp. Forrest Gump