The movie Forrest Gump .. A recipe for success without abilities

Perhaps in the history of American cinema, no movie has been presented with so many indicative signs for each viewer separately, as “Forrest Gump” did in 1994 or (Forrest Gump), and perhaps no movie before touched that special space between the viewer and himself with tenderness as “Forrest did” Gump.” Perhaps that is why director Robert Zemeckis and his most famous movie occupy this position, and perhaps achieving more than $100 million in 18 days is just a response to the favor from scenes living in a fierce society that does not show mercy to the weak or the stupid.

The film won 6 Oscars in 1995, and the 1994 film "Shawshank Redemption" was removed from the podium despite its merit, but the amazing intimacy with which Zemecks dealt with its subject made him capture the heart of every viewer to work with his hand, so the viewer looks at those The hand is between fear and hope, and then surrenders.

The film stood between the viewer and himself, and made peace between those whom society describes as having limited capabilities and themselves, showing them compassion and giving them hope for success.

The battle for prizes and revenues was decided early, and the facts of the film remained, which are not without the ability to be born again, and perhaps the late Egyptian writer Yahya Al-Taher Abdullah was referring to films such as Forrest Gump when he said, "Old facts are always valid to raise astonishment."

Forest Gump quoted a novel of the same name written by Winston Groom, which was published in 1986, but the protagonist did not achieve that wisdom and heroism, but his actions ranged between comedy and lack of logic.

The film begins with a scene of a "bird's feather" resting between the feet of a person, then flying upward, followed by the camera until it reaches the sky, then the camera settles on the face of the young man, "Forrest Gump", who embodied him and won the Oscar for Best Actor, "Tom Hanks" who narrates His story is outside the work, and the film ends with the same scene, emphasizing the meaning presented by its makers.

And "Forrest Gump" admits that there is something wrong with him, which makes him seem - according to the standards of society - less intelligent, and that there is a health problem in his feet that makes him wear supports that limit his movement.

He asserts that he learned from his mother that no one is better than him, and that the fool "is the one who behaves stupidly."

He is subjected to bullying in childhood, so he escapes and Jenny helps him, and her statement turns to him in order to push him to escape from bullies into a slogan of the nineties generation, "Run, Forrest, run." Forrest turns into a "machine" that does not stop the enemy, escaping from the bullies and in pursuit of his dreams and the dreams of others.

white feathers

Forrest achieves all miracles that cannot be accepted logically with his mental capabilities, he succeeds in entering a school for the poor, succeeds in entering college because of his ability to run fast, attends college, becomes a champion in American football and receives the Medal of Courage from Congress for his participation in the Vietnam War And he meets two American presidents, one of whom killed (John Kennedy), and forced the second to resign due to the famous Watergate scandal, Lyndon Johnson, and Forrest Gump becomes a millionaire, a ping-pong star, loves, marries and has a wonderful child.

The sight of the "feather" flying in the air symbolically indicated that that young man had someone to look after him.

Zymex uses the saying "feathers appear when angels are near you" as a spiritual sign coming from Western astrology, and it simply means that angels like to express their presence with white feathers that symbolize freedom and move from side to side, birds always migrate when winter comes to warmer places.

Thus, director Robert Zemeckis decided to present a symbolic prophecy of his hero, Forrest Gump, and then translate it into facts in which the hero accepts his limited abilities by the standards of society and uses them with diligence, sincerity and sincerity until he achieves his own miracles and brings him the edges of luck from love, wealth and fame, to heroism and good reputation.

The makers of the work are approaching the major dramatic events in American politics and military, as it deals with the Vietnam War, reviewing a massacre during which the hero lost his friend and the leader lost his feet, and most of the group’s fighters with him, and then when he is honored in Washington after the end of the war, and in no more than seconds he should have To announce his opinion on that war, but a person in military uniform (in a clear representation of power) turns off the voice, and his saying about the war that is still controversial today in the United States is absent.

Twins

“Are you twins?” This question was posed by Lieutenant Colonel Dan Taylor - who was ably embodied by the actor Gary Senese - who asked "Forrest" and "Bubba" or the actor Mykelty Williamson when they answered him at the same time in the same way that they were from the state of "Alabama". Forrest denied that there was no relationship between them, but the lieutenant confirmed that he understood very well that there was no relationship between them, as one of them is of African origin and the other is white.

It is a clever glimpse into the dialogue aimed at confirming a special kind of "twinning" between the two;

Forrest and Bubba.

It's those limited mental abilities.

So, "Forrest Gump" is not "the only idiot", there is also Boba, who was killed in the Vietnam War, and "Bubba" did not understand anything but shrimp, and he only dreams of owning a shrimp fishing boat, a dream that Forrest himself achieved .

smart camp

Jenny Curran, played by Robin Wright, is a smart girl who dreams of fame and glory through singing.

She escaped in a different way than Forrest did.

Her father abused her in her childhood, so she lived with her grandmother, fled to the capital in search of her dream and dived deeply with the chaotic, rebellious and identity-seeking groups in the United States in the sixties of the last century, and there she was subjected to humiliation and oppression in all its forms, both physically and psychologically.

She looks smarter than Forrest, but her destiny is lost, and every time Forrest, who loves her, saves her, her guardian angel remains despite her constant flight from him.

Lieutenant Dan Taylor, a military leader from a family that never misses a war or a chance to die honorably on the battlefield, has good mental abilities, but is wounded in battle and is rescued by "Forrest", but he survives with an amputee.

Once again, the "normal" person gets a disability and loses hope, as if the disability in the language of the film is those wrong choices, and it almost ends up in homelessness and addiction if it wasn't for "Forrest" who saves him for the second time by running him in the "shrimp boat" that was the dream of his late friend "Bubba".

The camp of the intelligent - according to the makers of the work - consists of people who are conceited with that intelligence that pushes each of them to a disaster that causes him disability, collapse or death, and then the savior comes from the other camp.