Film Review of Forrest Gump
Abstract: The movie Forrest Gump is an inspiring and moving movie, which can be described as one of the authorities of American movie.This article refers to the leading actor, the beginning and ending of this movie.At last, it analyzes some meaningful lines.
Key words: Forrest Gump, a feather, claic lines
Introduction
Ever let the unpleasant slices of life make you down? Is the day-to-day struggle threatening to drag you under? If so, there is a good movie that can replenish your energy and refresh your outlook.Paionate and magical, Forrest Gump is a tonic for the weary of spirit.For those who feel that being set adrift in a season of action movies is like wandering into a desert, the oasis lies ahead.
The movie I want to comment is an American movie which is revised from the novel that has a same name.The novel was written by Winston Groom.In 1994, this movie won 6 big prizes in Oscar, such as the Oscar for best picture, the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Best Director and so on.The famous actor Tom Hanks played the main role in the film.
Now, maybe many of you have known the name of this film for its great reputation.Forrest Gump is the very film which achieved 6 big prizes is doom to leave the name in the annals of history, not being mentioned the hero is a famous superstar.
Then I’d like to introduce a scene of it.A feather flies with the wind flowing above the tip of trees and ahead to the blue sky.In the end, it falls down near the hero’s feet.Gump, who is the main actor, sits on a bench in Alabama, and tells a story about his life to the people who are waiting for the bus without stopping.At first, I couldn’t understand it and didn’t know the meaning of the feather.But then, Gump begins to be lost in memories and I got it.
He was born in a close town in Alabama in the south of America after the World War Ⅱ.He was mentally retarded innately , his IQ was only 75, and had muscle problem.But his mother was a strong lady.She wanted her son to live as a normal human.She often inspired Gump that fools have fortune; he should make unremitting efforts to improve himself.Luckily, the God didn’t abandon him.The God not only gave Gump special feet which can run fast, but also gave him a mind which was simple, honest and pure thoughts.In high school, Gump ran into one school’s football court in order to avoid being chased by his clamate.He was admitted an exception University and became a football superstar, and President Kennedy met him.He
attended Vietnam War.He also took part in the China—America Ping Pong friendly matches on U.S.behalf and so on.At last, he did become a millionaire.
In the end of the film, Jenny who is Gump’s wife has paed away, and their son should go to school.One day, Gump send his son on the school bus.At the same time, there was a feather fell down from his son’s book, and a gust of wind blew, then the feather flied again.
In my opinion, the function of the feather is to draw forth the following at the beginning and to response to the beginning at the end.And it stands for purity, freedom and up and down in our life.I can say that the feather is a line that linked Gump’s life up closely, that is to say, we see Gump’s life mainly by this line.Now that, what a person Gump is? Gump is a man who just understand pay nothing back, who never to refuse others.He just faces life with generosity and magnanimousne.He together his belief, courage, little wisdom, if that can be seeing as wisdom, on one point, and he ignore everything just to run with intuition.He ran past the discrimination, past the football field, past he battlefront and so on, then he reaches destination.
Even though Gump’s IQ is lower than us, he is nobler than us.There are many virtues far away from many of us with normal IQ, like honest, faith, courage loyalty, etc.At the beginning, we may be amused by his dulling, feeling superiority before him.But at the end, many of us are touched by his honest or other virtues.Suddenly we find his experience just stands for an innocent age we had at the past, but now it’s covered by prejudice and vanity.
After all, Gump is a fictitious person.But that doesn’t matter.The film just was designed to teach us a different attitude towards life through Gump’s experience.A attitude like Gump towards life, no matter what you are facing or what are on the corner, he is always letting go of everything and trying to do the best, but not to blame someone, to waste time complaining or to give up desperately.What Gump to do is the simplest, he just to be the best of whatever he is and never to stop.Just like the feather, it finally flies back to the sky and continues its own journey.
Next, I want to analyze some actor lines which I think are claic and of philosophy.Most of those are sad by Gump’s mother, so we often hear Gump saying that “My momma always said···”.I have to say what a sagacious mom she is!
The most popular lines must be “Life was like a box of chocolates.You never know what you are going to get”.This word is extremely true for Gump, as we never think that he became a millionaire at last after so many unthinkable experiences.Truly, you never know what you will face is waiting for you next second, so what we can do is equipping ourselves well and playing to the score.
Another claic one is about trouble, “If you are ever in trouble, don’t try to be brave, just run, just run away”.Maybe people around us always try to persuade to bend to our trouble and meet our care, seldom say giving up.But we must make it clear that not every trouble can be solved after struggle.We must learn to give up a blue moon.
“There is only so much of fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showing off” is also Gump’s mom said.Many of us are pursuing wealth lifetime, but money is truly so important, more important than health, than kinship, than friendship? If the answer is No, please position the life again.
There are many other claic lines, like “Death is just a part of life, something we’re all destined to do”, like “I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floating around accidental—like on a breeze” and “If there is anything you need I will not be far away ” ,etc.They are all worthy to taste.
Conclusion
At last, I want to say the world will never be the same once you\'ve seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump.This movie is worthy appreciation for many times.
