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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 .








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