Film Analysis: Forrest Gump

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The movie Forrest Gump has many actors, the main characters within the movie are Tom Hanks who plays Forrest Gump, Sally Field who is mama Gump, Gary Sinise who is Lieutenant Dan Taylor and also Robin Right who plays Jenny Curran. Forrest Gump is a man with an IQ of 75, who manages between the 1950’s- 1980’s to become involved in major events in America. In this movie you will notice that Forrest takes things for exactly what they are and never complains because he is fine with the life that he is living. Watching this movie you will look at all the things Forrest does and you will wonder why he is also criticized so hard for who he really is.

Furthermore, this film has many ups and downs; this movie includes sadness, comedy, laughs and truths about life. Forrest was born in Alabama to Ms. Gump who tries to correct his posture by making him wear braces on his legs. Also, when the braces
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He only understands everything he needs to know. For example he doesn’t understand what happen with jenny like where stuff went wrong of the things with his mother. Forrest mother was always there for him she was his biggest support system but Forrest become devastated when he finds out that his mother is sick, so he comes home frequently to check on her. When his mother died Forrest was very upset but he always based his life on two phrases his mother always said which were “stupid is as stupid does” and “life is like a box of chocolates”. The movie Forrest Gump is very inspirational and powerful. Within this film there are manty scenes where people can connect too. Also this film has a lot of life and historical events within it like for examples it’s a lot of historical events that were going on doing the time of the movie and they were all somehow incorporated within the film. Altogether, Forrest Gump was a good movie and very inspirational I would recommend this movie to others as

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