Forrest Gump Film Analysis

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Film review of: Forrest Gump

By: Even H.Kollane

Year of release: 1994

Genre: Novel, Drama/Comedy

Director: Robert Zemeckis

BildeMain actors: Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) Jenny Curran (Robin Wright)

Summary of the plot:

The movie Forrest Gump is a story about the man who is named Forrest Gump who has a very low iq and has a whole different view of the world. He grew up in Alabama with he's mom in a big house. When he was little he's legs was very weak he had some type of support for them. In the house next to where Forrest lived, lived a girl named Jenny. Forrest was in love with Jenny his whole life. When Forrest was a child he always hang out with Jenny. He used to be bullied at the school but he didn't think of it like bulling because he had such a low iq.

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He is a very good man with a very low iq. He had a very childish way to se the world in. He had not much struggle in his life. He was nice to every one. He went for a stupid loser to a rich successful man.

Jenny Curran:

She is a character who come in and out of the film. She is very nice to Forrest. It is hie big love in life. She had a very bad adolescence if she did some thing her dad didn't like she would be punished for it. And her mom died when she was young. When she got older she went on drugs and had a very bad lifestyle. She became a so called Hipster. But in the end she turned her lifestyle to something good and started to work and got a child who was Forrest Gump's son. Then she married Forrest Gump.

Mrs.Gump:

She is Forrest's mother. She is very kind to him and do all she can for him. She do all she can for him that he don't feel as stupid that he is. And try all she can to make Forrest happy.

Buba:

Buba was Forrest best friend in the army. He was a very strange type. But he was a very good person. He died in the Vietnam.

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