Chapter 700: Forrest Gump (II)

Here, it is the first small climax of the movie, faster than everyone thought, and more touching.

Unlike what all the audience thought, this movie is bittersweet at the beginning.

Gump's childhood is not lucky; he has intellectual disabilities from childhood, his legs are disabled, and he has encountered school bullying.

But he is actually lucky; he has a mother who loves him more than anything, and he also met Jenny, who is as beautiful as an angel.

However, these originally warm factors were broken one after another.

Gump's mother used her body to exchange with the school teacher for her son to go to school.

And Jenny, the lines even hinted that she was sexually assaulted by her father.

These shocking and heartbreaking plots are the true portrayal of American society at that time, which can be seen in various news.

And even now, these problems actually still exist.

However, the existence of these tragedies also makes those warm scenes even more precious.

Sadness and joy are not clearly divided in the movie, but are interdependent.

And this is exactly the reason why it can touch the audience.

Because it is real.

Unknowingly, the expressions of the audience have gradually moved from the frowning or indifference at the beginning of the show.

Their hearts are all moved by Gump's fate, curious about what his life will look like later.

The movie screen turned, and Gump and Jenny had grown up to their middle school era.

Two children, one grew up to be graceful and beautiful, beautiful enough to make people's hearts beat.

And the other, although he does look a bit dull, is also tall and healthy, and his appearance is even more handsome to an outrageous degree.

It is worthy of being the American Dream.

Many female audience members saw Leon's Gump appear, and their eyes were already full of little stars.

After middle school, Gump's intelligence was still a cut below ordinary people, and bullying happened from time to time.

In the past, those school bullies rode bicycles, but gradually found that they couldn't catch up with Gump, who was running faster and faster, so they changed to cars.

And in a run to avoid bullying, Gump accidentally broke into a school football game.

His fast speed immediately made the school football coach discover his talent and let him join the team.

Relying on a brain that only knew how to run, Gump ran into university and ran into the final of the university football league.

Still "Gump, run!", this sentence that ran through Gump's entire youth made him a hero on the final field.

His figure holding the football and running fast, no matter how the opponent chased, could not reach.

In the end, Gump held the ball and won the victory, but he didn't stop, but ran out of the competition venue and rushed into the safety passage.

Everyone was cheering for him, and his coach laughed loudly: "Although this kid's brain is not good, he is really fucking fast when he runs."

The coach's language is very rude, the frequency of "son of a bitch" is very high, but the words spoken are also people-laughing, typical American humor.

Because of this victory, Gump and his teammates were received by President Kennedy.

This incident actually happened, and there is also a live recording tape, except for Gump who was synthesized, the others are the real people.

And when Kennedy communicated with Gump, Luo Quan used computer special effects technology to change his mouth shape, creating a real sense of history.

This is actually not the first time in the movie that the protagonist has personally experienced history.

At the beginning of the movie, Gump met a tenant who liked to play guitar.

When the tenant played, Gump would dance with the music beside him.

At that time, Gump still had equipment tied to his legs to help him stand, so his dance steps looked twisted, very strange.

Not long after, this tenant moved away, and when Gump saw him again, it was on TV.

This tenant was already a little famous and danced the strange dance steps he learned from him, with a stylish look.

At this time, everyone recognized the identity of this tenant, who was the legendary American singer and king of dance music in the last century.

At that time, seeing this, the audience smiled, thinking this was the director joking with everyone.

However, combined with this meeting with the president, everyone understood that it seems the director not only wants Gump to be a witness to history, but also wants him to be a creator of history.

Sure enough, Gump had a figure in every major event that happened in the United States.

War broke out, and Gump enlisted in the army.

At the time of parting, Jenny told him that no matter what happened, he must ensure his name, and if he couldn't beat it, he should run.

Gump kept this sentence in mind.

After arriving at the military camp, Gump met his best friend Bubba and Lieutenant Dan, who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside.

This part is the scene with the most music in the entire movie. Every plot with a memory point will have a song.

For example, when the recruits reported, the background music that appeared sang: "Rich politicians' children use silver spoons, while poor children are cannon fodder on the battlefield."

This kind of lyrics is no longer dark satire; it is naked irony.

This war was not just from the beginning; it was not just to the invaded country, and it was not just to its own citizens.

The rich are drunk and dreaming, and the poor have become tools for them to seek benefits.

This spicy irony also made the audience sweat.

Although so far, there is no private goods in the movie, and they are all narrated from an objective perspective.

But the fact that this "discordant" content can pass the review is also a miracle.

The audience frowned, but soon relaxed again.

The movie continued, and the picture went to Gump writing a letter to Jenny.

The background music also changed, sounding psychedelic and pleasant, catchy.

This is the famous song *California Dreamin'*, but this world doesn't have it.

In the transition of these classic songs, the war finally broke out.

The troops where Gump was located encountered an enemy ambush. There were enemies in front and in the sky, and the comrades around him fell one by one like wheat cut by a harvester.

When he heard the order to retreat, Gump remembered what Jenny told him and immediately turned and ran. He ran out of the battlefield in a while.

But at this time, he remembered that his good friend Bubba was still inside, so he immediately turned and rushed back.

Seeing the comrades on the ground, the upright Gump carried them out one by one.

But when he found Bubba, he was already dying. This change made Gump feel the sadness of losing an important person for the first time.

This was even more intense than the pain caused by the bullet in his butt.

However, a blessing in disguise, Gump withdrew from the battlefield because of being shot.

At the same time, because he saved his comrades, he became a hero after the war and was received by the president.

At this time, the president had changed to another one, but the same thing was that Gump still made a fool of himself in the live TV broadcast.

In order to show the president his wound, Gump took off his pants directly, revealing his butt, which brought a burst of laughter inside and outside the play.

After meeting the president, Gump met a large group of anti-war protesters after coming out, and they invited Gump to speak on stage.

Gump didn't understand their content, but after going up, he told everything about Jenny and confessed to her.

No one could have imagined that Jenny was actually in the crowd.

In order to let Gump see herself, Jenny jumped into the empty pool and ran toward him.

Gump's eyes revealed a color called excitement, and he rushed down the podium with a faster speed than the football game, jumped into the pool, and hugged Jenny in the pool.

The protesters around were cheering and applauding for this couple.

And in the cinema, the audience had already left tears, all moved by this couple who were not easy, and glad that they could achieve a positive result.

However, this is actually just an illusion.

After Gump and Jenny hugged under the eyes of everyone, they only had one night of joy, and then there was no deeper progress.

Jenny's life is still casual and dissolute. The boyfriend she found is a bad person who only knows domestic violence, and the job she found is a music performance similar to a stripper, and she will be moved by others on stage.

Gump saw it, and every time he would beat those who bullied Jenny hard.

But in the end, what he got was Jenny's blame, doing bad things with good intentions.

However, in the following period, the emotional entanglement between Gump and Jenny did not become the main line.

The main line of the movie is still the historical moments that Gump experienced or created from his perspective.

For example, after becoming a hero, Gump fell in love with table tennis and went to China for table tennis diplomacy, witnessing the important moment of the warming of relations between the two major countries.

For another example, the Watergate incident was revealed by Gump through the window in the middle of the night, leading to the president stepping down, and he was forced to leave the officialdom.

After retiring from the army, Gump thought of his good friend Bubba's dream, so he spent most of his money to buy a shrimp boat, named *Jenny*.

Soon, he met Lieutenant Dan again.

In the war, Lieutenant Dan lost his legs and is now wandering the streets, in a miserable situation.

He blamed Gump for not letting him die on the battlefield, why he saved him.

But Gump did not give up on him because of Lieutenant Dan's scolding, but let him get on the boat and work hard for the future together.

Probably, God sometimes favors fools.

In a storm, other shrimp boats were hiding in the port, while Gump and Lieutenant Dan, two rookies, broke into the storm and wanted to make a profit.

As a result, they did the opposite. The boats parked in the port were destroyed by the storm. The two rookies survived, and because they were the only survivors in the port, they were on TV.

Also because all the fishing boats were destroyed, Gump's *Jenny* finally started a bumper harvest. After all, only their boat could operate in the whole water area, so it was difficult not to have a bumper harvest.

Life was getting better day by day.

On a beach near dusk, Lieutenant Dan and Gump confided their hearts, feeling the impermanence of fate and gratitude to Gump.

Those words sounded as if they were saying goodbye to Gump.

At this moment, the hearts of the audience were all pulled together, thinking the director was ready to start abusing again.

Suddenly, Lieutenant Dan jumped into the sea, people's hearts trembled, thinking he wanted to commit suicide.

Fortunately, it was just a false alarm.

Gump rushed forward and saw Lieutenant Dan lying on his back in the sea, smiling.

Although he had no legs, he still swam very easily.

The sunset spilled on the sea, and the sparkling golden light changed shape with the ups and downs of the waves.

The day was about to end, but the life belonging to Lieutenant Dan had just begun.

He reached a reconciliation with himself, and there was no difficulty that could not be overcome.

People are actually very powerful and will not be defeated by anything other than themselves.

As long as you are strong enough.

Seeing this, many audience members fell into deep thought.

This is probably the place that touched them the most.

Lieutenant Dan's transformation, the change of luck, the contest between reality and will.

They understood what the director wanted to say. Combined with the current social situation, it is most appropriate to take it out to encourage everyone.

And soon, this plot, which seemed as beautiful as a fairy tale, made everyone laugh again.

In order to give Gump a large sum of money, Lieutenant Dan invested in a fruit company in his name.

Gump opened the contract, and on it was an apple with a bite taken out of it.

Who else could it be but the famous Apple company later?

With this investment, Gump naturally became a rich man.

Soon, Jenny also came to the door.

At this time, everyone felt that Gump was now successful and so rich, and Jenny should stay for reason, right?

But it was another night of joy, and Jenny still chose to leave.

Before it was because of willfulness and dissoluteness, but this time it was because of inferiority.

Jenny felt that she was really not worthy of Gump now.

But Gump, who had lost his mother, had already regarded Jenny as his only relative.

After she left without saying goodbye, he searched in the town.

Every day he would go out, running while looking for Jenny.

Gradually, this range expanded from the town to the whole state, and even the whole country.

More and more people saw Gump running and joined in.

The media also scrambled to report and asked him why he hadn't gone home for so many years and was running outside.

Everyone thought that Gump must be for something.

At first, Gump was indeed looking for Jenny, but now, he had no other thoughts.

Running ran through his life. If he wanted to find meaning for the rest of his life, probably only running was left.

That is to say, he was not for anyone or anything.

By here, the movie is nearing the end.

The story afterward can be considered unexpected and expected.

Gump and Jenny met again. Jenny finally walked out of the shadow of childhood, had a proper job, and raised Gump's child.

Under the witness of friends and relatives, the two finally became husband and wife.

However, the good times didn't last long. Jenny suffered from a disease because of her promiscuity in the past and died soon after.

But Gump's son is very healthy, not only smart, but also runs fast like Gump.

The story ends here.

The movie is over, but the audience sat in the cinema for a long time without moving. ===== CHAPTER 701 =====