Guest blogger: Cole 2

Forrest Gump is a great movie. This classic movie is about Forrest Gump. It starts out with him sitting at a bus stop and starts to tell his life story, but the listeners keep changing, as do their emotional reactions to the story. It starts out with him being young in school where he meets this girl named jenny, which he falls for deeply. He has leg braces that are meant to straighten his spine. They show him running and these breaking off his legs. Forrest is a really fast runner, and this ability brings him to Alabama State where he plays football. After Forrest meets the president and graduates, he decides to enlist into the army. This is where Forrest meets his good friend Bubba. Forrest and Bubba are both sent over to the Vietnam War. Bubba convinces Forrest to enter a shrimping business with him after the Vietnam War is over. Forrest gets shot in the butt and is put in recovery. While he is in recovery Forrest finds out that he has an uncanny ability for the game ping pong. He slowly grows in popularity and eventually plays against the Chinese at an anti-war event. At this event he reunites with jenny and beats up her fiancé for slapping her. After Forrest leaves the military he receives a letter from jenny and decides to see her, where he receives some important news. Forrest Gump seems like a slower thinking male but he is really a kind and helpful guy that has an ability to run very fast. Forrest is continuously motivated by friend’s family, and jenny, the girl he loves to keep moving forward and live life to the fullest. Tom Hanks did a very good job of playing the huge role of Forrest, especially the part when he kept running and running. I also thought robin wright did a good job of playing a cute girl who is in love with an army guy that she always has feelings for, but can’t always have him in her life. I think I would have to agree with the critiques that it’s one of the best movies in cinema, and Tom Hanks is one of the only people that could successfully play the role of an “idiot”. I also agree that Tom Hanks helped make the film, being a big name actor. I think the main theme in this movie is not to give up on life, because he goes through lots of hard things and still keeps moving forward. I think that this movie is completely worth the viewer’s time to watch and pay for.