Chapter 701: American Dream

The movie is over, but the audience was reluctant to leave for a long time, still listening to the ending song *California Dreamin'*, staring at the acknowledgment list in a daze.

This movie has no cool special effects, the war scenes are not shocking, and there are not many exciting big scenes.

Originally, everyone thought that since it was about the American Dream, it had to have some greatness of taking responsibility and turning things around.

Unexpectedly, it was so ordinary.

However, greatness can often be reflected in the ordinary.

The history presented in the movie and the protagonist's experience, isn't that the American Dream everyone is looking forward to?

Although Gump was born disabled, he never complained about heaven or others, embraced life with the greatest enthusiasm, and embraced others with the greatest kindness.

It seems that he can always make the right choice at the right time, as if God favors him alone.

But in fact, these successes are built on Gump's great character.

For such a kind, serious, and persistent person, success is inevitable.

For the audience, this movie is not only a bowl of chicken soup from heaven, but also a signpost, pointing out the direction for everyone in confusion.

Not everyone can be like Gump, possessing so much good luck and coincidence.

But they can be as serious and optimistic as Gump.

And this is the premise of success, the premise of achieving the American Dream.

Perhaps, this is the truth the director wants to tell everyone.

With the end of the first wave of movie screenings, people walked out of the cinema, and the first thing they did was to recommend *Forrest Gump* to everyone.

At three o'clock in the middle of the night, *Forrest Gump* topped the Twitter trending list with over 500,000 entries. The comments that could be seen were basically all good reviews, expressing the emotion gained from this movie.

And the freshness index of Rotten Tomatoes reached an extremely rare 100%!

On this long-standing movie rating website, there are no more than twenty movies with this evaluation.

You know, even *Titanic* is only 99%!

This may not prove that *Forrest Gump* is truly flawless or better than *Titanic*, but at least in the eyes of the audience who scored it, this movie is an indisputable masterpiece!

By eight o'clock in the morning, reports from major newspapers, professional film critics, and film magazines were released one after another.

First is the *New York Times*:

"This is the best movie about the United States in ten years, recording the changes in the United States over the past few decades, and reproducing that era of freedom, struggle, and richness.

It is hard to imagine that this was filmed by a foreign director, and what is even more rare is that she achieved complete objectivity and fairness, without prejudice against any party, without discrimination against any group, including the description of war.

If you want to choose the Oscar Best Picture for next year, *Forrest Gump* is the one!"

*Time* magazine:

"Miss Luo Quan understands the definition of the American Dream better than most Americans.

She used a real lens to depict a fairy tale belonging to adults.

Gump's success may be accidental, but who can say that if you work hard, you can't get the same result?

Miss Luo Quan defined the way of working hard and even showed it to everyone.

And the final destination is named the American Dream!"

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Rarely do media praise a foreigner so uniformly.

Miss Luo Quan did not rely on politics.

Or perhaps, what she presented is the ultimate political correctness.

No one dares to deny the value of the American Dream.

In the US internet that has been hazy for months, a glimmer of light has finally appeared.

Although there is a saying: when light shines into the darkness full of haze and filth, this light also has sin.

However, if it is the light of the kingly way that judges all sins, that is another matter.

Now *Forrest Gump* has such a trend. The whole internet is full of praise, and there is no existence of any opposition at all.

Not only because of the meaning represented by this movie, but just from the movie itself, it is indeed a work with almost no flaws.

Whether from a rational or emotional perspective, there is no point to criticize.

Therefore, it is not surprising that *Forrest Gump* has become the ultimate political correctness of American society.

However, in China, this movie has caused some controversy.

Of course, it is mainly not the plot of the movie.

When Miss Luo Quan was filming, she made some modifications to some plots of the original movie, achieving absolute objectivity.

Although it may not be particularly catering to the US government, at least from the perspective of the public, this is something that cannot be blackened.

Therefore, even if the Chinese public cannot empathize with the American Dream, they can also feel the emotion brought by this movie.

Leaving aside the American Dream, this is actually an inspirational movie with the historical trend as the background.

And Gump's experience actually quite conforms to China's mainstream cultural thought, that is, where there is a will, there is a way, and heaven helps those who help themselves.

To put it popularly, it is good people have good rewards.

With such a premise, then experiencing the emotion of the movie and cheering for Gump's good luck has no difficulty in understanding.

As for the controversy of netizens, it is mainly around the heroine Jenny.

On the internet, they are arguing endlessly about whether she is a good girl.

One side thinks: she has been distant from Gump again and again, and her private life is so dissolute, so she really can't be called a good girl.

While the other side thinks: Jenny has never hurt anyone from beginning to end, and she is good to Gump from the heart. Her private life is like that mainly because of her miserable childhood, not from her heart.

Both sides hold their own opinions, and neither can convince the other.

If it were in the United States, Jenny's problem would not actually be a problem.

Because it is not just her, in fact, many young people at that time were like this.

Under the hippie movement, the indulgence of young people toward life was almost unrestrained, and it was not too much to make any outrageous behavior.

But in the eyes of the mainstream in China, Jenny's private life really can't be called a good girl.

Not to mention anything else, just the drug addiction part is enough to label her.

Of course, evaluating a character cannot be separated from its historical background, and it needs to consider the limitations she received in the environment she was in.

And people cannot be defined by just one good or bad; sometimes the boundary between the two is very blurred.

Thus, after the quarrel was fruitless, the compromise view occupied the upper hand.

"Jenny is one of the vast number of hippie youths of that era.

Her childhood was miserable, she was disgusted with her family, hated herself, and was extremely inferior.

She loved music and wanted to achieve success, but because of limited ability, she could only perform on stage in this vulgar way.

In order to numb the pain in her heart, she indulged in enjoyment, her private life was dissolute, and eventually led to her illness.

However, no matter how miserable Jenny was, she never hurt anyone from beginning to end.

She is still gentle and kind, and has the qualification to love and be loved.

And her emotional entanglement with Gump is actually complex and tangled.

Gump's two proposals, Jenny refused the first time because she felt Gump didn't understand love.

And the second time, it was out of inferiority. At that time, she felt she was not worthy of Gump, so she chose to leave.

And the third time, she had become a strong mother who could support herself, got rid of drugs, and raised her son alone.

At this time, Jenny also finally let go of all the pain in the past, said goodbye to her miserable childhood, and embraced a new future.

Therefore, she agreed to Gump.

It's just that people always have to pay the price for their behavior. In such an environment, indulging like that, no one can be safe, so it is not surprising that she finally got sick.

Although director Miss Luo Quan did not explicitly state it, this strange disease is actually AIDS.

Jenny's life is a tragedy, but I think the last period of her life must be happy.

Compared to Gump, the director's writing on Jenny is actually not bad at all; these two are the embodiment of the image of that era.

One is the American Dream, and the other, perhaps, is the United States itself."

This conclusion analyzes Jenny quite clearly from the perspective of China.

People are complex; not everyone can be as pure and simple as Gump.

And as the heroine, Jenny is certainly not as in line with the preferences of the mainstream public as in ordinary movies.

But she achieved "independence," and is not an accessory to any protagonist; she is a heroine in the true sense.

After washing away the lead, it can make people feel her beauty and kindness even more.

The only pity is that Miss Luo Quan, who claims to hate tragic endings, finally arranged such a tragic ending for Gump and Jenny, which is really sigh-worthy.

Especially seeing the beautiful Jenny lying on the bed, the scene was as similar as when Gump saw off his mother, I don't know how many audience members were moved to tears.

For this, after the movie was shown, many female audience members in China asked Miss Luo Quan why she wanted to break her promise and didn't give the two a good ending.

Soon, "Why Miss Luo Quan wants to break her promise" trended.

The comment section started outputting directly:

"Miss Luo Quan really likes to do this, *Farewell My Concubine* is like this, *Forrest Gump* is also like this, the ending is so miserable, I don't know how many tears were cheated from me!"

"Saying she likes big reunions, but I don't know how many tragedies she has personally brewed; she is truly a great evil person in the world."

"Although I guessed it would be such an ending, when Jenny really died, I still couldn't help but want to send a blade to Miss Luo Quan."

"She must have a stream tonight; see how I confront her!"

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For this, Miss Luo Quan is actually very helpless.

Although she does like big reunion endings and likes Happy Endings, this situation is not applicable to *Forrest Gump*.

The emotional atmosphere was brewed to that point; if Jenny didn't die, it would definitely not achieve that kind of unforgettable effect in the end.

And this is also the reason why the audience is unwilling, but there is no one spraying it as a bad ending.

Everyone knows this is a reasonable and good ending, but everyone just doesn't like to see the heroine die.

And seeing that the momentum of the audience's condemnation was so great, Miss Luo Quan also posted an explanation:

"I do like big reunion endings.

But not all movies are suitable for big reunions. Some characters are born to sacrifice and bloom with their lives.

Although it is very cruel, at least she left an indelible mark in everyone's hearts, letting you be indignant and tearful for her.

As a character, she is successful, and at the same time, thank you for your love and support.

However, I emphasize here that I am not a literary youth, nor do I have literary youth disease.

I will not be green just for the sake of green, and die just for the sake of death. That kind of affectation is absolutely the enemy of art creators, it is completely self-indulgent without regard for the audience!

If you feel offended by hearing this, don't doubt it, I did it on purpose, please consciously sit in the seat!"

For creators with literary youth disease, Miss Luo Quan has always hated them deeply.

This time, she also took the opportunity to express her thoughts, that is, you can say I am cruel and deliberately earn the audience's tears.

But you can't say I am a literary youth; I am not that kind of person.

And after these remarks were issued, it also attracted the teasing of a group of netizens:

"Haha, it seems that Miss Luo Quan was hurt by a literary youth's work; she actually rarely started a map cannon."

"Before Luo Bao streamed, she said she read a fantasy novel, and the author sent the girl and abused the master, Luo Bao almost had a cerebral hemorrhage.

Since then, she has started to be a bit obsessed."

"It is indeed a bit brain-dead, and many literary youths like to do this, and even call it art."

"The protagonist Fugui in *To Live* is also very miserable, but he didn't send his wife to others. Those who can write that kind of plot have more or less psychological problems."

"I can understand it anyway."

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It can be seen that many netizens don't like literary youths.

But having said that, being able to make people so uncomfortable also shows the success of character shaping and the excellence of the work.

If it is a bad movie or a bad novel, no one cares how you disgust people.

However, when it is clear that you can give the public a good ending, but you have to abuse the protagonist, it can only be understood as two situations.

Either there is a pit in the brain, or it is a psychological perversion.

Of course, Miss Luo Quan mentioned it specifically here, because she was disgusted by reading novels a while ago.

A good cool text, but it has to be done like this. Besides being outrageous, she doesn't know how to describe it.

However, by distracting attention like this, the voice of Jenny's tragic ending also became much smaller.

And as more and more people watched *Forrest Gump*, the popularity and good reviews also began to erupt.

The box office on the first day of the movie's release also came out, totaling 459 million US dollars globally.

The United States alone had 320 million US dollars, a very exaggerated data.

And under the unanimous recommendation of the whole US internet, I believe more people will walk into the cinema to see this American Dream movie with zero bad reviews.

It is worth mentioning that on the second day of the release of *Forrest Gump*, the stock market received a lot of retail capital inflow.

The stock market, which was originally in a state of panic and stagnant water, seemed to suddenly come alive again.

The confidence of stock investors was restored, and their courage became bigger again.

The situation nearing the crash was miraculously reversed.

No one knows if this is the credit of *Forrest Gump*, but Apple has become the one with the highest growth among all stocks. ===== CHAPTER 702 =====