If you don't understand Forrest Gump, you don't understand all living beings in America. —The Washington Post

'The American Dream Is to Go Like Forrest Gump' - The New York Times

Forrest Gump's perseverance is the spirit of America! - Los Angeles Times

'Comedy Edition of Contemporary American History: Forrest Gump' - Time Magazine

"Forrest Gump" tells the "big fate" of a country and the "little life" of a citizen, which blends into a "novel story", and the various characters in the film, even a fluttering sentence, have their metaphors and representations.

Forrest Gump's mother, a strong and capable woman, Forrest Gump's biological father is not revealed in the film. Straight to the point, there are two metaphors for this: one is the eternal question of mankind from ancient times to the present and in the future - "Who are we?" Where did it come from? Where to go? The second is to use the big house to symbolize the continental United States, to use Forrest Gump's mother as a metaphor for the British, and to use Forrest Gump to refer to the Americans, symbolizing that the American nation has some excellent genes; But there is no other half of the blood to spawn the "freak" and "mentally retarded" giants.

Jenny is another example, she grew up in the shadow of the tyranny of her single father, who guided her twisted life. Self-violence (naked singing), self-abandonment (drug abuse), suicide (attempt), although they finally returned to Forrest Gump's side, they still paid the price with their lives. Forrest Gump's unswerving and the healthy growth of little Forrest Gump made her have no regrets for the rest of her life.

Captain Dan was a vain military man. He failed to become a martyr of glory, but became a disabled person with both legs amputated. Dan is jealous of Gan's medal, mentally unbalanced and indulges in wine; It is in strong contrast with Gan's physical and mental disability and self-improvement. Gan and Dan became millionaires by mistake, sympathized with each other, started a business together, and both became millionaires. At Forrest Gump and Jenny's wedding, Dan came to congratulate him with two new prosthetic legs, holding his fiancée, who turned out to be a Chinese girl.

Several characters in the film are all typical, symbolic, and metaphorical, and they all represent a certain world view, outlook on life, and values. If Mother symbolizes history and tradition, Jenny means marginality and reflects loss, Dan is a metaphor for human vanity, and Forrest Gump embodies the flaws and inadequacies of reality, as well as the ideal of fairness and success. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that the film is both a comedy version of American history and a living appearance of the American nation.

The film "A" not only has a unique and vivid story, typical characters, but also has a humorous and profound language. One of the most famous is the phrase "Life is like chocolate ......"

This is particularly appropriate from the mouth of the mother of a mentally handicapped child, presumably Forrest Gump loves to eat chocolate that blends sweet and bitter. The different flavors of the various pralines symbolize the different circumstances of life.

Forrest Gump was a little older, so he naturally asked himself why he didn't have a father, and his mother replied, "Your father has gone on vacation." ”

The word "vacation" here has multiple meanings, rich meanings, thought-provoking and imaginative. Perhaps, Forrest Gump is the product of someone's stay in this house when they are on vacation; Perhaps, Gan Dad left home because Gan was mentally retarded; Perhaps, Gan's mother left him because Gan's father was also stupid. And Forrest Gump grew up in those vacation customers who traveled east and west, and traveled from south to north, so he naturally looked forward to his father coming home unexpectedly. Even if Forrest Gump understands that his father's "vacation" is a road to life that will never return, he still feels that death is not so terrible......

When Forrest Gump is bigger, he naturally knows that he is stupider than others. And my mother said, "Stupidisasstupiddoes" (stupid people have stupid blessings), but Forrest Gump's mother knew in her heart that it was not easy for Forrest Gump, who was born a fool instead of a normal person, to get ahead, and he had to be down-to-earth. So, in response to Forrest Gump's instinct to eat, Mom said, "Theproofofthepuddingisintheeating." (The only way to know the taste of pudding is to taste it yourself.) ）

However, when Forrest Gump returned home, his mother also had to go to heaven for a "vacation". Gan's last message was, "Boy, Thedeathjustisapartofthelife." ("Child, death is a part of life.") )。 Death is as natural and self-evident as eating and sleeping are a part of life.

If the mother's idiom gives Forrest Gump a lesson of thought; Jenny's proverbs give Forrest Gump guidance for action. Just one sentence - "Forrest Gump, just run forward!" ”

Behind a successful Forrest Gump, there are two important women, although they may not be successful in their own lives.

Thus, Forrest Gump began his life's marathon trail running: running through the humiliation of a young disability; ran into the gate of the university; ran and became a national champion; ran out of the battle heroes; ran into the White House lawn; also went to China to start ping-pong diplomacy; For the sake of love, the long-distance running of the United States continent...... From the arena, the battlefield, the shopping mall, and the love field, in addition to officialdom, he "ran all the way and was consistent." ”

Forrest Gump grew up with a leg disease, his mother had to wear him "iron shoes", when he grew up, his girlfriend solemnly gave him a pair of Nike "running shoes", and saw that the chief did not need to wear any "shoes" due to amputation, so that he also said a family saying to the shoes: "From a pair of shoes you can see a person - where you come from and where you are going." ”

Forrest Gump blurted out a sentence because his new shoes stepped on the **** during the long-distance run, 'Shithappened!' It has become a popular "buzzword" in the United States; And the graffiti that was splashed with muddy water by the car turned out to be a global best-selling "cultural shirt"

In Vietnam, Commander Dan said to the newly arrived recruits, Forrest Gump and Babu, "Don't salute me, it will kill me!" There are Viet Cong snipers everywhere, who specialize in hitting officers. ”

Babu was 'all over the place,' and Dan warned, "Put your thick bulging lower lip in or you'll be struck!" ”

This kind of ridiculous confession is found in the film, which is hilarious, suffocating, and thought-provoking.

Babu once said to Forrest Gump: "When the war is over, I will call all the shrimp fishing boats in my hometown to come here, and I will be able to make a fortune!" Come with me, man? ”

He forgot his ancestors, who had been sold by ship to the Americas hundreds of years ago as "commodity goods" (African slaves).

The film uses a seemingly casual sentence, but it shows the weakness of human nature - "Slaves also want to be slave owners!" ”

"History can be forgiven, but it cannot be forgotten." This is a warning to all of humanity.

In short, the film takes a low-IQ successful person as the protagonist, allowing the audience to start with a sense of superiority, but end with a sense of guilt and admiration; It starts with light-hearted comedy entertainment and ends with reflection on the philosophy of human nature.

"Forrest Gump" vividly interprets and interprets the life of "mentally handicapped and genius, one and two" from a unique perspective, and alludes to this materialistic, materialistic and materialistic society, which seems to be smart, shrewd and clever. In fact, deep down in our hearts, we may really not be as good as a big 'stupid' and 'wise' Forrest Gump ....... -- Time Magazine

The review of Time magazine can be described as a word, no reporter or film critic deliberately commented on the acting skills of the leading actors. In their opinion, there are no actors in the film at all, only the living Forrest Gump, Mother, Jenny, and Captain Dan.

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The media scrambled to express their opinions, and Hollywood directors, screenwriters, and actors also praised "Forrest Gump".

Forrest Gump is portrayed as the embodiment of virtue in the film, honest, trustworthy, serious, brave and attaches importance to feelings, only knows how to give to people without asking for anything in return, and never minds the rejection of others, he just faces life open-mindedly and openly. He concentrated all his wisdom, faith, and courage in one point, and he didn't care about anything, but he knew that he kept running on the road with his intuition, he ran through the discrimination of his childhood classmates, ran through the football field of the university, ran through the quagmire of the Vietnam War, ran through the battlefield of ping-pong diplomacy, ran all over the United States, and finally ran to his finish line.

Everyone who has watched "Forrest Gump" will get some insights from it: life is like a white feather in the air, or fighting in the wind, or drifting with the wind, or soaring into the blue sky, or falling into the abyss......

I think Forrest Gump in the story is simply a typical American, and his upbringing is exactly what we went through, and he makes us look back at the past history clearly. He's a good guy who can make people cry and make people laugh. - Steven Spielberg

In this film, China Ming makes Forrest Gump appear on the screen as a simple-minded, innocent, and unassertive character, and he sees the characters in the film as symbols of the humanity of the American people.

In my opinion, the uniqueness of this film is that it reaffirms the old culture of morality and social subjectivity, and promotes the dominant ideology of the United States in the 60s, while at the same time it rejects other avant-garde new cultures. I think it's because of this that it can win the hearts and minds of the American people. - Francis Ford Coppola

"Forrest Gump" makes us familiar with two people: Forrest Gump and Tom Hanks. This film is adapted from Winston Glum's satirical novel of the same name, but the overall style of the film seems to be more like a life allegory, in the film, Forrest Gump's IQ is not high, but he has the virtues of honesty, trustworthiness, bravery, sincerity and other virtues that have been far away from this society for a long time, at the beginning of the film, we may be amused by Forrest Gump's woodenness, in front of him, we are full of superiority, but at the end of the film, we have to be moved by his sincerity, We suddenly found that Forrest Gump's experience represents the age of innocence for each of us, but we have been overburdened with too much prejudice and vanity. - Rick Ross

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And "Forrest Gump" is also like "Shawshank" the year before last, in the midst of overwhelming praise, it ravaged all opponents in the summer file of the movie.

6.82 million on the premiere day, and the attendance rate reached an astonishing 100% on the third day! Moreover, the tickets for the first three days of the first week and the second week have been fully pre-sold.

'Oh God, it's Jurassic Park again!' The ecstatic theater chain immediately adjusted the theaters and increased the number of screens, soaring to 78.19 million the next week!

Tom Cruise, who was promoting "The King of Killers" non-stop, watched the news on TV and exclaimed, "Ming, what kind of monster are you!" ”

Sun Ziming, who had been mentally prepared, he, "Don't look at it, no matter how much it is, it has nothing to do with you." Hurry up and eat, we have to take a plane to Miami, if you kill "Future Water World" this time, I will give you a bicycle by yourself! ”

"Cut, you might as well sell me the house next to you!"