Reading Log - Film Forrest Gump

Forest Gump directed by Robert Zemeckis, is a film about a brainless young man named Forrest Gump and events that took place throughout his life. Despite Forrest being on the dimer side he managed to live life a that was anything but boring.

On Forrest's first day of school as soon as he stood on the school bus everyone said to him "can't sit here" or "seats taken", everyone expect for a girl named Jenny. Jenny had a abusive childhood, we know this because Forrest talked about how Jenny's father "was a very loving man, he was always kissing and touching her and her sisters". That day Forrest went to her house to see her, they ran into the crops and she asked Forrest to pray with her, in their prey she asked "make me a bird so I can fly far, far away from here" which reinforced the idea that Jenny had been sexually abused in her home and wanted to leave. Forrest's unconditional love towards Jenny made her feel like she didn't deserve him which ended in her repeatedly running away and turning to a trail of abusive boyfriends or drug usage. Some years later Jenny invited Forrest around to her house so he could meet their child. Jenny later told Forrest she was getting sick and asked Forrest to marry her, he said "of course" and well they got married.

Since the beginning of the film Forrest showed that he was always willing to help out and protect his friends and family. For example once Forrest graduated a army man approached him and suggested he apply to the army, to which he ended up meeting this best friend Bubba there. Bubba "knew everything there was to know about shrimping" and later asked Forrest "how'd you like to go into the shrimping business with me?" to which Forrest said "okay" to. Forrest kept his promise to his best friend and started a shrimping company. After a few failures a storm started brewing, Forrest and his friend Lieutenant Dan battled the storm and survived unlike all the other shrimping company's. They turned out very successful so Forrest went and gave Bubba's family his share of the money since it was his "fine idea" and "his mom didn't have to work in the kitchen after that" thus showing how far Forest was willing to help out his loved ones.

Throughout the film you often come across the saying "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get". Personally I think this quote is highly iconic because it speaks to everyone in more then one way. For instance hearing that for the first time, one could immediately think "oh yeah okay" and shrug it off as if it were nothing but if you were to really think about it you could get more in-depth with it and even apply it to your own life. I do agree with that quote because life is a box of chocolates, you could be on a winning streak getting all your favorites then you'll get that one you instantly regret picking up.