Friday 10 June 2022

 Forrest Gump

This great movie is set in Greenbow, Alabama in the 60s and 70s. It is based on the novel Winston Groom. It stars Tom Hanks as the main character, Forrest Gump, Robin Wright as Jenny Curran, Gary Sinise as lieutenant Dan, Sally Field as Mom´s Forrest and Mykelti Williamson as Bubba.

Everything starts with Forrest sitting on a bench waiting for the bus.  While his transport arrives, he tells about his life, how his Mom wanted that he went to the school as any child, where the school principal said that Forrest doesn't have the same abilities as other children, and how he met toJenny on the school bus and they became best friends.

Although at first Forrest couldn´t  walk very well because he had to use special appliances, he became a good runner, with this skill Forrest could go to the University playing American football in its team. After winning an important game of American football, he met the USA´s president  and later he went to the Vietnam War, where Forrest met Bubba, his best friend, and the lieutenant Dan. When the war finished, Forrest received a medal for saved his companions and he mets USA´s president again. In that time Forrest discover a new skill, playing tennis, with it he became famous and a rich player so he bought boat and with lieutenant Dan they fished and sold shrimp, their business named “Bubba Gump”  but Forrest comeback to home because his mom was sick and  after some days she died.

At the end, Forrest discovers that gets a son with Jenny so he married with she and takes care of them.

Skillfully directed by Robert Zemeckis, who is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. Convincingly and poingantly acted by tom Hanks, also known for the movies “Naufrago, Milagros inesperados, Salvando al soldado Ryan”, among others.  The movie Forrest Gump was widely praised by the public.

It's a moving, hilarious and dramatic movie where Forrest has several historical events like teaching Elvis Presley how to dance and meeting John Lennon. I am sure that you are going to love the plot, I would thoroughly recommend it.

1 comment:

  1. Good job Fer, it is really a lovely film. However, you don't need to give so much detail about specific events in the film, unless you want to stress the importance of one as central, for example, the fact that Forrest was considered a handicapped boy and what his mother did to avoid making him feel like a loser. another thing you shouldn't mention is how the film ends. The other paragraphs are very good.

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