Basically it is a conservative movie with Jenny doing all the liberal dogma of the time, while Forrest stays true to social norms.
I thought it was stupid.
Strange that every actor who portrays a mentally handicapped (i.e. retarded) person ends up winning an Oscar for it. Seems to me anyone could do it.
As such, I think it does a pretty good job, but just like Fox News at its outset, any attempt to portray things in a "fair and balanced," manner will be deemed, "conservative," because it does not automatically bash conservatives, and it looks at liberal viewpoints in a way that may not be completely flattering.
People will read into things what they want to. When the movie, "Patton," came out in 1970, many in Hollywood thought it was not the right time for a war movie while things were raging in Vietnam...and yet the film did quite well with many on the left who saw Patton as a rebel against the establishment.
I didn’t like the hidden message that the only characters that was admirable were a retarded man, a black guy and a group of women. There were no laudable portrayals of ordinary males.
This set the tune for Thelma and Louise and a whole group of feminine heroines; fighting against maleness.
Even commercials show most white males as buffoons.
Silly controversy. Hollywood wants its liberal or progressive pictures to be judged as pictures, not as propaganda. If they happened to make a “conservative” picture why deny it?
It wasn’t that great a movie, but most of what Hollywood puts out isn’t that great either.
Memories - our local high school had a running back named Forest - it was worth going to the games, just to hear everyone yell, “Run Forest Run”