Zemeckis argued that he was playing to both sides of the aisle. Movies provide windows into the world and the way it fits together; by that very definition, they take on political ramifications, especially when they utilize images loaded with preexisting definitions. However, the movie was prescient in one significant fashion. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! This creates an odd kind of selfishness even though Forrest is not a selfish character.
Even the concept of assassinations becomes an odd kind of running joke, first stated with seriousness with the deaths of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, and then as a kind of a background noise with the attempted assassinations of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. If you worked in a lab to make a movie to soothe baby boomers who had sold out their values and simply looked back at the 60s and 70s as a crazy time in history, it would look a lot like Forrest Gump.
The film takes all these momentous moments and rather than recontextualizing or examining them, it renders them into kitsch. Because Zemeckis knows how to give it a crowd-pleasing sheen. Tom Hanks is one of the most charming and endearing actors who has ever lived. Then the feather from the beginning floats away, and how are you not supposed to get emotional with all that happening?
News ]:. An early scene, played for laughs, shows Forrest listening to his Mom Sally Fields shagging his headmaster so he won't get sent to special school. And throughout the treatment of Forrest's love Jenny Robin Wright is problematic to say the least. Abused by her father as a child, Jenny grows into a troubled young woman, but her suffering is only seen through Forrest's fair-weather filter. One scene, borrowed from Zemeckis' own infinitely superior Back To The Future , has Gump beating up one of Jenny's lovers in a carpark.
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