Forrest
Gump
The film starts with a feather
that's blowing in the wind. Then it lands near a bench, where there's a man
called Forrest
Gump. He's waiting for a bus, he
wears a suit and has a suitcase. Many people sit by him, and always he tells
them about his life. He grew in a very big house in Green bow, Alabama, with his
mother, who rented rooms. Forrest had problems since
the childhood: he had a lower I.Q. then other children, and so he was mildly
retarded. He also wore leg- braces, but his mother did everything for him that
could improve his situation. At the first day of Primary School nobody wanted
him, and finally only a very little girl let him to sit near her. He was called
Jenny, and since that day they have
been best friends. She always encouraged him when other kids pulled his leg. Jenny lived in a little old house close his one, and
had a very bad father who mistreated her and her sister. At the end of the
school, they went to different universities, and so they began to see each
other less frequently. He became a football champion, and she started to
associate with shady character. She also dreamt to be a famous singer, but one
day, when Forrest went to meet Jenny,
he found her in a pub while she was singing nude, with only the guitar, after
that he met the USA
President for the first time, to be prize-winning by him for the football
championship. After graduating he decided to enter the army. He went in Vietnam, and
during the war he met Bubba, a young black boy who had the dream to be the captain
of a shrimping-boat, and Lieutenant Dan.
Bubba became his best friend, but Forrest never
forgot Jenny, his only love, and every
day he sent her a letter. One day, bombs started to rain from the sky. Everyone
of his platoon tried to escape, but many of them died. Forrest
saved many people in that occasion, also Lieutenant Dan. But he could do nothing for Bubba,
who died in the middle of a forest. After this Forrest
went back home, but he spent a very long period in hospital, where he met again
Lieut. Dan,
whose legs had been amputated. There Forrest started
to play ping-pong, and he was very good. When he gets out of the hospital he
met another USA
President, who gave him a medal for his bravery. And he met also Jenny, that became a hippy, living with sex and drug.
Forrest started to play ping-pong professionally,
and he excelled also in this sport. For this he met the president. Then he became
a shrimping-boat captain, keeping the promise made with Bubba, and founded a
very big shrimp society with Lieutenant Dan. One day, Jenny
went to his house, and started to live with him. They loved each other, and
they've been very happy till the day when Jenny
went away, without telling anything to Forrest. For
this, he began to run. He crossed United States by feet, running,
only stopping when he had a necessary need. And then . We return to the start, Forrest goes to Jenny's,
and find her with a son called Forrest too. She
explains that the kid is his son, and then she asks him to merry her. The
wedding is celebrated in Forrest's home garden, and
after that they live all together very happily. After a few time, Jenny dies for an illness. At the end of the film we
can see Forrest and his son together, and the
feather that continues to fly .
