This movie takes place during Vietnam. Forrest Gump had some sort of disorder when he was a kid so he had some sweet leg braces. Eventually his legs got better and he could walk like a normal kid. His best friend Jenny plays a big part of his life in the movie. That is where the saying "Run Forrest, Run!" comes from.
I think the film is saying a lot of different things about war, but the main thing that pops into my head is if you set your mind to it you can do it. Forrest Gump does a lot of great things throughout the movie. He finds Jenny, multiple times, he wins ping pong championships, he makes it through the war alive, he wins awards for being in Vietnam, ad the list goes on and on. I think this movies intentions were to make war comical, more enjoyable for people, because they were at this time starting to see how bad war really was.
I think this movie shows more the positive side to war, as in Slaughterhouse-five it has more of the negative affects. I also think that this is about what war can do to a person, how it can affect their life. I think Slaughterhouse-five also has some of that in it.
I think she might like parts of the movie. But I think that it does not fully show what happens to people in war and it does make them look like they are men, not boys. Although, I think she would like Lu tenet Dan. He tells you how it is straight up.
this is a great film, i grew up watching this, and i never really realized how good it was until i grew up enough to understand exactly what was happening.
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