FORREST GUMP (1994) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

I'm a double amputee above the knee. An IED under our lvat 10 years ago. Gary Sinice visited me personally afterwards.

This movie changed Gary Sinise' life. He formed the Gary Sinise Foundation to aid disabled veterans. He sends the families of veterans and gold star families on all expense paid vacations to Disneyland via his Snowball Express. He tours military bases all over the world with his band, The Lt. Dan Band. He is an American patriot.

The “Is he smart, or is he…” line ALWAYS breaks my heart. You spend the whole movie watching people be cruel to Forrest and him not really acknowledging it, and you imagine that the reason he lets it go is partly because “stupid is as stupid does,” partly because he doesn’t really understand it because of his disability, and partly because he’s just a genuinely kind man. And then he meets his son. And the VERY FIRST thing Forrest is worried about is if his son will have to go through all of the cruelty Forrest himself went through, and you realize that he has ALWAYS understood what those cruel people were doing to him. He’s always known; he’s just too good of a person to let it affect him. But that line shows that he doesn’t want his son to have to go through what he did. He met his son twenty seconds ago, and he already wants his son to have a better life than he had.

Forrest’s speech at the Vietnam protest, by the way, is: “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mamas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”

Carly nailed it. Forrest absolutely knew what love was, he always had it from his mother. Jenny had no idea what it was until she had her son.

British Army veteran here. A good friend of mine came back from Iraq paralysed from the chest down as a result of spinal injuries. Told he would never walk again he vowed to prove them wrong. A year later, with the aid of braces and a large wooden staff, he walked 2 miles a day, till after 13 days he completed the London Marathon. This and other events, he achieved his goal of raising £1m for charity to help other wounded veterans and service personnel. Three years later he completed the same London Marathon again, but this time in 26hrs.

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Forrest lived his life like a child, Jenny couldn't escape her childhood, and it took a child to bring them together at the end. Complete circle.

She didnt tell him about the kid because he was out running across the country by then. He starts right after she leaves. Shes sees him on the news and then sends the letter.

This movie is full of references and metaphors. To me, one of my favourites is that, at the end, Lieutenant Dan marry a Vietnamese woman, meaning he is now in peace with what happened in Vietnam.