REVIEW FORREST GUMP - When I first saw this movie I didn't appreciate it like I do now.

I think it may
have been because I was so young when I first saw it. Just recently I saw the movie again. What an amazing
story and moving meaning. That movie teaches you so much about life and the meaning of it. That life isn't
as bad as most people make it seem. That an innocent man can impact so many lives with his innocence.
The meaning of the movie to me is that everyone needs to have a better outlook on life. That we need to
appreciate more of the little things and not let the big things hold us back. That truly although life may
throw us trials and tribulations like a box of chocolates but that we have to just bite into it and get through
it even if we don't like it. That we all need to hold true to our values and not sink into a place that feels like
there's no hope... I just love this movie.

RIASSUNTO FORREST GUMP

The movie starts with Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) telling his life story to strangers at a bus stop. He starts
with telling about the braces he wore on his legs as a child, which caused other children to bully him. At
school, Forrest met Jenny (Robin Wright), an abused girl who became his life-long friend. Her advice to
Forrest was to "run" whenever he got into trouble. Forrest ran constantly, eventually allowing him to
discard his leg braces and "run like the wind blows." Despite having below average intelligence, Forrest
earns a scholarship to the University of Alabama after Bear Bryant spotted Forrest running away from
bullies. While in college, he witnesses George Wallace's famous Stand in the Schoolhouse Door and
receives an award for athletic achievement from President John F. Kennedy. After graduating, Forrest
enlists in the Army and is sent to Vietnam, where he becomes friends with Bubba (Mykelti Williamson), a
man whose life-long dream is to buy a shrimping boat. When the platoon is ambushed, Forrest's "running"
saves many of the men in his unit as Forrest ran repeatedly into the firefight and carried them to safety.
Bubba died, while the platoon's commanding officer, Lt. Dan Taylor (Gary Sinise), loses both legs. Forrest
himself is injured and awarded the Medal of Honor by President Lyndon B. Johnson. In Washington, Forrest
wanders into an anti-war rally led by Abbie Hoffman at the National Mall, where he again meets Jenny, who
has become a hippie. While recovering from his injuries, Forrest discovers an aptitude for ping pong. He
begins playing for the U.S. Army team, eventually competing against Chinese teams on a goodwill tour. He
goes to the White House for a third time to meet President Richard Nixon who provided him a room at the
Watergate hotel, where Forrest, reporting what he thinks is a power outage, inadvertently exposed the
Watergate scandal. Because of his many accomplishments, Forrest is invited to appear on the Dick Cavett
Show. While in New York for the filming, he again meets Lt. Dan, now an embittered drunk living on
welfare. Lt. Dan is scornful of Forrest's plans to enter the shrimping business and jokingly promises to be
Forrest's first mate if he ever succeeded. Using money from his ping-pong career, Forrest buys a shrimping
boat, fulfilling his wartime promise to Bubba. Lt. Dan keeps his earlier promise and joined him as first mate.
They initially have little luck, but after Hurricane Carmen sweeps away the rest of their competition, the
Bubba Gump Shrimp Company became a huge success. At the same time, Forrest has to return home to
care for his dying mother. Forrest leaves the company in the hands of Lt. Dan, who invests their wealth in
shares from Apple. The two men become extremely wealthy. Jenny returns to visit Forrest at his old home.
They sleep together, but she again leaves the following morning. Distraught, Forrest elected to go for a run
and simply decided not to stop. Over the next three years, he runs coast to coast several times, gathering a
group of followers. In the end, as suddenly as he has begun, he runs home to Alabama to find a letter from
Jenny. Forrest says that Jenny's letter invited him to come and see her, which is why he is waiting for the
bus. An elderly woman who has been listening to his story tells him that Jenny's address is only a few blocks
away, and he runs to meet her. Once they are reunited, he discovers they have a young son, also named
Forrest (Haley Joel Osment). Jenny tells him that she is suffering from an unknown virus. She proposes to
him and he accepts. They return to Alabama with their son, but Jenny dies soon after. On his son's first day
of school, Forrest Sr. sits with his son at the bus stop. As the bus picks Forrest Jr. up and drives away,
Forrest Sr. sits on the same tree stump where his own mother sat on Forrest's first day of school, the day he
met Jenn