Similarities Between Who Am I This Time And Forest Gump

In the film “Who am I this time?” and in the movie “Forest Gump”, both main characters are trying to find a uniqueness and are sometimes fantasizing to be what they really aren’t or wish they were. The focus or so called theme of these two films are, you are what you pretend to be. The narrator of the film “Who am I this time?” is directing his first play and doesn’t know much about theater and how it works. He wants Harry Nash to be the lead role, but also needs a women to be the other role in the play. As the narrator was at the telephone company, he runs into a beautiful looking women who would fit that role. Her name was Helene, the narrator asked that she’d come at try out for the play and get the role. After she got the role, she began …show more content…
Until Harry comes into her life, she soon is filled with joy and romance. As they begin to be around each other daily and rehearse, she becomes very attracted to Harry. Harry is very shy and doesn’t necessarily understand what love is until Helene pulls him in and shows him. As they begin to spend all of their time together, Harry actually falls for her. In the movie “Forest Gump”, he starts off being a little boy with many problems and his speech and legs are the two biggest of his many problems. Forest had a speech problem and could not talk right and also couldn’t walk right, so therefore he was picked on daily by many kids at his school and on the way home from school. Until he met Jenny, Forest became happy and finally had someone to talk to and be friends with outside of school. Forest was of the shy type just like Harry in the other film, but Forest truly loved Jenny, but she didn’t see it, just like Harry didn’t see that Helene didn’t love him in the play. Though Harry and Helene don’t have much character, they pretend to be other people who are exhilarating and very passionate, which adds life to their …show more content…
Both the film and the movie show examples of how the main characters are trying to find out what their true identity really is. Helene in the film and Forest in the movie eventually become things they never would have thought of becoming. In the film, Harry and Helene don’t start with a very good persona, but as the play moves on they generate an electrifying and loving side to them. In the movie, Forest loves Jenny from the moment he laid eyes on her, but she doesn’t realize this until the end where it’s almost too late. The film and the movie show how you are what you pretend to be and that love can be a very difficult thing at