This just reinforces the notion that the general public’s intelligence is vastly overstated even when it’s estimated to be nonexistent.
Gump, as a film, is about as subtle and nuanced as a cricket bat upside the head. Even the soundtrack tells you what to think and feel [e.g., Gump is running down a road, the Doobies “It keeps you running” plays—hurr, durr?].
Even the special effects of placing him next to historical figures was lifted straight out of Zelig, which predated it by a decade at least.
It was nothing more than yet another excuse for baby-boomers to gaze at their navels and marvel at all the groovy times they experienced 2nd hand through television as children—in a just and sane world, it would have been nothing more than an after school special.
amazing....I can’t even watch him in that movie..ughh..
how about Atticus Finch, from To Kill a Mockingbird, or his daughter, Scout ?