Forrest Gump

Movie Report

Forrest Gump is a movie that tells us about so much history about the USA and how a person influenced in those events of history (is a movie, so it is not true).

Forrest Gump is a boy who had a problem with his legs and he used a type of orthopedic equipment so he can walk. With this orthopedic equipment he taught a dance passage to a musician (Elvis Presley), and Forrest tells that later that musician was known as “The king”. After time he didn’t needed more those equipment and he could walk and run normally.

He played football with the University of Alabama because he noticed he could run so fast, he became part of the All-America of football and met the president John F. Kennedy. When he grew up he list in the USA army, there is where he met Bubba, who became his best friend in that time. He went to Vietnam because it that time USA and Vietnam had troubles and there was a war. Over there Forrest helped all his colleagues to survive but when he found Bubba he was in a bad status and died over there. After he returned to USA and he was awarded with a medal of honor because of being in war and survived. He formed part of a Hippie movement in that years, but he didn’t have idea of what it was. After his services for the army he join the ping pong team of USA and went to the Olympic Games in Asia. After winning the gold medal he came back and again visited the white house and met Richard Nixon.

He also appeared in a TV show together with John Lennon. With the money of playing ping pong he dedicated his life to the shrimping with his ex Lieutenant Dan of the USA Army, at the beginning they were failing with their mission but after a hurricane they were alone in the competition of shrimping. Both of them became rich and invest part of their money in a company of technology named Apple.

In the final of the story, Forrest marries Jenny because he discovers that they had a son, but later Jenny dies of a strange type of virus and Forrest takes care of his son for the rest of his life. The story ends when Forrest send his child to school and sits down in the same trunk as his mother sat when sent Forrest to school.

In summary this movie tells us the life of a common person but with some psicological problems and how he formed part of the history of his country. He formed part of wars, politics, movements, sport events, actual worldwide companies and social events.