//Film Critique//

::Film Critique::
((Forrest Gump))
Jessica Rone 5th Hour

“Momma always says life’s like a box of chocolates, ya never know whatcha gon’ get”. That’s one of the famous quotes from the movie Forrest Gump, it’s a great movie. It was given an 8.5 star rating out of 10 and was ranked 68 out of 250 with over 172,000 votes. It was released on June 6 of 1994. Forrest Gump is a great comedy, drama, and romance between a man who was totally clueless to what was going on in the world but always got caught in the middle of it all and had probably accomplished more than anyone ever could even if that person was to live to be triple his age. He (Forrest) falls in love with a girl who he had known all his life but she keeps running away form him and perusing other people and other things but one night changes it all and he gets the surprise of his life. I think that Forrest Gump was a great movie and was well put together for many reasons.
First, the actors in the movie were Tom Hanks, who plays the main role of Forrest Gump, they show his whole life throughout the movie. He wasn’t a very smart man but he goes through a lot and he accomplishes many different things and he falls in love with a childhood friend played by Robin Wright Penn who plays Jenny, who has known Forrest since she was young and always stood by him when nobody did. They fall in love but she hates to admit it to herself and keeps running away from him. But they have a happy ending. Then, there’s Mykelti Williamson who plays Bubba, Forrest’s good friend when they were in the army together. He was obsessed with shrimp and had a huge dream to open his own shrimp business and asked Forrest if he wasted to be his partner but he later dies, so Forrest makes that dream come true for him and his family.
Second, is the screen play of the movie and basically how they show things that have happened and how they tell the story without using words. For example, when they show Forrest’s dirty running shoes while he was sitting on the bench telling the people his story. Later you see that it was Jenny that bought those shoes for Forrest and all that he has been through and his shoes have been with him like all that running he did and the mud that is on the shoe is showing the viewer that that happened. Another example of screenplay is all the flashbacks that they show of him. That’s basically how they tell the movie, its one big flashback and once in a while they will come back and show Forrest telling the story to the person sitting with him and the new people coming and going just listening to him. Another one is when Forrest went into the army and Lt. Dan was yelling at him and Forrest was also narrating but as he was telling us the story, he was whispering. Last, when they had the news report telling us that there was a hurricane that totally wiped out all the boats except for Forrest’s when there was that great storm after Lt. Dan was yelling at God. There are many different types of screenplays that take place in this movie and they are very creative.
Third, the special effects that were added to the movie. For example, when Jenny and Forrest were young, Jenny used to sneak over some nights and they showed her going to Forrest’s when there was a big storm and she was scared. Another was when Forrest was in the army and they were being attacked, all of the explosions, gunshots and bombs they had were all special effects. Last, when Jenny went away to an all girls school and Forrest was out doing his own thing at his college, he would go and visit Jenny every chance that he got and it was raining one day and he went to go visit her. He had come a long way and he is soaking wet with a box of chocolate and he comes all this way just to find Jenny in the car with another man and the storm changes the whole mood of the scene.
In conclusion, I believe that Forrest Gump is a great movie and is very well thought out and put together. The moral of the movie is to not take what you have for granted and you can do anything that you set your mind to. It also shows that everything will work out to be how it was supposed to because after all, life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.