Post 24 - Movie Plot

                It's not necessarily my favorite movie, but I still like the plot of Forrest Gump. We watch Forrest Gump just sit on a bench waiting for the bus to arrive. In the meantime, he recounts moments from his life and tells them to the random people that sit next to him. From him playing running back for the University of Alabama to him fighting in Vietnam, he reveals the Watergate scandal, joins an anti-war protest, and becomes rich and famous. I think it's an important plot because we get to see moments in history through the eyes of someone childlike. We get an innocent and raw perspective of war and loss, but we also get shown how choices in your life can send you to so many new environments. He was bullied as a kid for his disabilities and when running away, he gets noticed by coaches and gets convinced to play football. From him getting bullied to eventually winning in football and meeting the President.

             I'm always a sucker for any historical movie and this one is just good. I love how you get new perspectives on historical events and see it from someone that lived it, albeit fictional. We normally read it in history books, but these people on the bench with Forrest get first-hand accounts of everything he tells them.