This film is all
about a man who was born with the IQ below average which is 75 however he still able to accomplish many
achievement in his life. The film begins with a feather falling to the feet of
Forrest Gump who is sitting at a bus stop .Forrest picks up the feather and
puts it inside the book, then tells the story of his life to a stranger seated
next to him.
Forrest meets a girl named Jenny on his first day of
school. This girl plays an important role in his life for example, the girl’s
encouragement make him successfully discarded his leg braces. Besides, he even
can run at lightning speed and this eventually gets him into college. He
decided to enroll in the army after he graduate from the college and he is
being sent to Vietnam. He makes friends with a black man called Bubba at there.
Bubba attempt to approach Forrest to go into the shrimping business with him
when the war is over. One day, while they went for patrol, Forrest's platoon is
attacked. Although Forrest rescues many of his companions, unfortunately his
best friend, Bubba is killed in this incident.
Due to his heroism for saving so many people, Forrest is
awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Apart from that, he unintentionally
finds out his ability for Ping-Pong while he is in recovery. This ability
enables him gaining popularity and also joins competition to play against China
teams. At an anti-war demonstration in Washington, Forrest finally meets Jenny
who missing such a long time.
After that, Forrest earning himself $25,000 because he
supports a company that makes Ping-Pong paddles. He decided to use that amount
of money to buy a shrimping boat to fulfill his promise to Bubba. His previous
commander from Vietnam, Lieutenant Dan, joins him. Forrest is such a lucky man
because his boat is the only surviving boat in the area after Hurricane Carmen,
he starts to pull in huge amounts of shrimp and uses it to buy an entire fleet
of shrimp boats. Lt. Dan invests the money in Apple Computer and Forrest is
financially secure for the rest of his life. Then he returns home to see his
mother who getting weak.
One day, Jenny returns to visit Forrest and he proposes
marriage to her. She rejects.On a whim,
Forrest suddenly decided to go for a run and this action make him famous again.
Many followers accompany him throughout the running journeys.
After finish sharing his story, Forrest claims that he is
waiting at the bus stop because he received a letter from Jenny and asks him to
visit her. Once he is reunited with Jenny, Forrest discovers she has a young
son, and he is the father. Jenny tells Forrest she is suffering from a kind of
virus. Jenny and Forrest finally get married however Jenny dies soon afterward.
The film ends with father and son waiting for the school bus on little
Forrest's first day of school. Overall, this film used a very good technique
which is narration of main character to bring out the whole story and
eventually back to the present.
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