Obstacles In The Film Forest's Life

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Throughout Forests life he experienced many obstacles. These obstacles Forrest faced reflect too many people’s lives including mine. This movie reflects me because of the different feelings, adventures and the people we meet in life. The different feelings in the movie reflect to my life because we all feel love, sadness and happiness. This movie showed all these feelings. For example, when Forrest said “I’m not a smart man but I know what love is” to Jenny. When Forrest mother and his best friend (Bubba) died, it showed sadness. But he managed to be happy by making Bubba dream come true, by becoming a shrimp boat captain. The different adventures he experiences which were ping-pong, joining the army, saying a speech in front of a big crowd

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