Word: gumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Okay. Here's the deal. There are tons of great movies playing. You have "Forrest Gump," "Clear and Present Danger" and "The Client." You have "Speed," "True Lies" and even "Lassie." Don't waste your time with this piece of trash...
Show Business: Making audiences cheer and weep, Forrest Gump...
Zemeckis says, without apparent irony: "I imagined Norman Rockwell painting the baby boomers." And that is Gump: a social tragedy sanitized for a Saturday Evening Post cover. It celebrates innocence, acceptance and, not least, good manners in a tale set in the very era when Americans were supposed to have misplaced these virtues. The movie offers a cheerful alternative history -- a Golden Book version -- of the Vietnam War: it's all about the emotional triumphs of these nice American soldiers, and hardly a Vietnamese even appears. There are precious few villains: only the boys who throw rocks at young Gump...
...younger viewers, then, Forrest Gump serves as a gentle introduction to the '60s: baptism not by fire but by sound track. And to those who raged, suffered or sinned through that insane decade, the movie offers absolution with a love pat. Whaddaya know? We waged a stupid war that destroyed both another country and the best part of ourselves; we tore up our streets and our psyches in a kind of Cultural Revolution; we practically killed ourselves with drugs -- and it turns out we're not guilty. By allowing us to relive all the evils of recent history through invulnerably...
...Filmmakers often say the American public doesn't want complicated films full of thought," says Field, who is outstanding as the heroic mom in this edgy valentine. "They are wrong. They underestimate the intelligence of the American audience." But does Forrest Gump make you think? No, it makes you feel -- or, at best, makes you think about what you feel, and about how long it has been since a movie found those remote corners of sympathy and sentiment...