Forrest Gump



Forrest Gump

Introduction

There are a number of movies that we like, some movies are excellent, and there are few that we might consider as work of art. They might not just entertain us like favorite film, but just in their complete beauty, they make the title, but according to Nick Gillespie (2011), art generated in return to 9/11 has been completely indecisive so far, regardless of the efforts by creative geniuses like Don DeLillo and Bruce Springsteen. The claim of Mr. Gillespie seems quite true as looking back at the past we have such wonderful movies that were subjective and full of art. One of these great movies is Forest Gump which was released in 1994.

Forrest Gump is a film that tells of flashbacks to the past, the story of a man (Forrest), who seems to be different from others. The viewer is through these flashbacks incorporated more and more into the story and confronted more and more with the life of the narrator. Due to the very different and yet similar characters lived through the audience of American history of the 60s to 80s. While our main character Forrest by digital technology gets the chance to meet famous people like President Kennedy or John Lennon and the sooner gets to know the positive side of these times, Jenny becomes a hippie of the 70s, as an AIDS victim and presented so that negative aspects of these years (Safran, 1998).

The movie “Forrest Gump” is a work of art that split people into groups who praise it as the movie reflects several social problems of the time, however some people hate it too.

Discussion

In the present study, the analysis of the film Forrest Gump and the values contained in it, the work is first briefly outlined its content and conducted an analysis of action. Then the characters occurring shed light and explain two important stylistic devices. Afterward, discusses the values conveyed in the film. Here are the values of equality, politics and sports are investigated in detail, which to be considered in the film and in the present partly including a scene analysis and the presentation of contemporary historical backgrounds. These three values represent only a selection, can be in the movie, but numerous other American Values find. Studies of all the values contained but beyond the scope of this work many times (Weschler, 1994).

At the beginning of the movie Forrest Gump, the young man sitting in Savannah, Georgia, USA at a bus stop on a bench and told the randomly sitting next to him passers episodes from his life so far. The only child Forrest, which may have an IQ of only 75 and is brought up by his mother, the late 40s born in Greenbow, Alabama. With Jenny, Forrest learns to know on the first day on the bus, he spends most of his spare time. By his other classmates, however, he is mocked and rejected. As Forrest, one day on the run in front of them, he developed such ...