Forest Gump is an awful movie.
It was a movie made to win awards by slapping us in the face repeatedly with the "look at how he can be successful, even though he has a mental condition that people would expect to stop him from doing the things that he is doing."
Let's break this down.
As a boy, Gump was forced to go to regular school where he was teased endlessly and probably had massive frustration at trying to learn content that was paced for kids without his condition. His mother forced him to be at the regular school, even though schools more tailored to kids like Gump existed.
Gump was given a football scholarship to play at Alabama. He was not able to understand the idea of stopping at the end of the end zone, but somehow, he was able to pass all his college classes and stay on the football team? That's either an impossible stretch or proof that the college helped him cheat and took advantage of him to win football games, while putting his health at risk without Gump's consent.
Next, he volunteers for the army. This guy wasn't smart enough to understand to stop at the endvzone, but the army and his mother, who did nothing to stop him, sent him to be in a warzone, with a live weapon and possible death. He was incapable of making the decision to go into the army. It was ridiculous to think that they would have let him. Luckily, he was only wounded, and was not killed.
Gump makes a big splash as a shrimp boat captain and this part of the movie, minus the fact he is allowed to drive a boat when he can't even drive cars, is relatively tame and fine for him. The money pit shrimp boat is saved and thrives when Lt. Dan comes aboard and helps Gump. It is obvious that Lt. Dan is taking care of charting, navigation, learning when and where the shrimp will be, but Gump is allowed to think it is the praying that helps him.
Gump returns home, to a huge plot of land and mansion beyond the burbs, all the way out in the country, at some point and is as happy as he has ever been mowing the football field and hanging around the house. This part speaks to how Gump should never have been forced or allowed to go into situations like football where he could have been seriously injured or the army where he could have been killed. Gump should have been allowed to find his place in life in the safety of his own town and home. He should never have had to deal with the risks of his life that he endured.
Then, the girl that has spent years using Gump for an emotional buoy when she needs it, only to cast away Gump when she doesn't need him, returns to his life and rapes him. They have nothing in common, besides growing up in the same vicinity. She toys with his emotions, again, and leaves him. This makes him run for years and no caregiver stops him (his mother never setup a caregiver or overseer to check on Forrest and make sure he was okay and didn't do anything to hurt himself accidentally, like running in the middle of nowhere for no reason on pavement could do). His mother proves in death that she still doesn't understand that her son needs someone to help him. In death, as in life, she forces Gump to be "normal" which put him in tons of painful situations throughout his life and caused him to face dangers he should never have been forced to face.
Then, while diagnosed with some unknown illness (Hep C or AIDS), Jenny has Gump take care of his kid, now that she needs him to. She hid the kid until she needed something from Gump. Then, she dies because of her loose past. She lets Gump be close to her, and who knows if she passed it to him, they didn't seem all that careful with anything. His rapist dies and then Gump, who should have a caregiver himself, is left to care for the seed of his rape. This kid is being forced to grow up with someone that is incapable of meeting all the needs the child will have as he grows. Through no fault of Gump's own, this child is being put in a bad situation, who knows if the kid will be as lucky as Gump and be successful and avoid harm from the bad situation he is being put into.
It was a movie made to win awards by slapping us in the face repeatedly with the "look at how he can be successful, even though he has a mental condition that people would expect to stop him from doing the things that he is doing."
Let's break this down.
As a boy, Gump was forced to go to regular school where he was teased endlessly and probably had massive frustration at trying to learn content that was paced for kids without his condition. His mother forced him to be at the regular school, even though schools more tailored to kids like Gump existed.
Gump was given a football scholarship to play at Alabama. He was not able to understand the idea of stopping at the end of the end zone, but somehow, he was able to pass all his college classes and stay on the football team? That's either an impossible stretch or proof that the college helped him cheat and took advantage of him to win football games, while putting his health at risk without Gump's consent.
Next, he volunteers for the army. This guy wasn't smart enough to understand to stop at the endvzone, but the army and his mother, who did nothing to stop him, sent him to be in a warzone, with a live weapon and possible death. He was incapable of making the decision to go into the army. It was ridiculous to think that they would have let him. Luckily, he was only wounded, and was not killed.
Gump makes a big splash as a shrimp boat captain and this part of the movie, minus the fact he is allowed to drive a boat when he can't even drive cars, is relatively tame and fine for him. The money pit shrimp boat is saved and thrives when Lt. Dan comes aboard and helps Gump. It is obvious that Lt. Dan is taking care of charting, navigation, learning when and where the shrimp will be, but Gump is allowed to think it is the praying that helps him.
Gump returns home, to a huge plot of land and mansion beyond the burbs, all the way out in the country, at some point and is as happy as he has ever been mowing the football field and hanging around the house. This part speaks to how Gump should never have been forced or allowed to go into situations like football where he could have been seriously injured or the army where he could have been killed. Gump should have been allowed to find his place in life in the safety of his own town and home. He should never have had to deal with the risks of his life that he endured.
Then, the girl that has spent years using Gump for an emotional buoy when she needs it, only to cast away Gump when she doesn't need him, returns to his life and rapes him. They have nothing in common, besides growing up in the same vicinity. She toys with his emotions, again, and leaves him. This makes him run for years and no caregiver stops him (his mother never setup a caregiver or overseer to check on Forrest and make sure he was okay and didn't do anything to hurt himself accidentally, like running in the middle of nowhere for no reason on pavement could do). His mother proves in death that she still doesn't understand that her son needs someone to help him. In death, as in life, she forces Gump to be "normal" which put him in tons of painful situations throughout his life and caused him to face dangers he should never have been forced to face.
Then, while diagnosed with some unknown illness (Hep C or AIDS), Jenny has Gump take care of his kid, now that she needs him to. She hid the kid until she needed something from Gump. Then, she dies because of her loose past. She lets Gump be close to her, and who knows if she passed it to him, they didn't seem all that careful with anything. His rapist dies and then Gump, who should have a caregiver himself, is left to care for the seed of his rape. This kid is being forced to grow up with someone that is incapable of meeting all the needs the child will have as he grows. Through no fault of Gump's own, this child is being put in a bad situation, who knows if the kid will be as lucky as Gump and be successful and avoid harm from the bad situation he is being put into.
