I have recently rewatched the movie so I have some ideas still fresh.
I like the movie. I loved it years ago and I like it now too. It's a lesson for us to stop disconsidering people who have various disabilities and start realising their true potential.
We have Forest Gump, a kid with a walking problem at first (had to wear "braces" for his legs) and also an...
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I have recently rewatched the movie so I have some ideas still fresh.
I like the movie. I loved it years ago and I like it now too. It's a lesson for us to stop disconsidering people who have various disabilities and start realising their true potential.
We have Forest Gump, a kid with a walking problem at first (had to wear "braces" for his legs) and also an intellectual issue. Even if skinny and timid, with a low IQ, he can still be an awesome person and a wonderful man and even father.
No, he is not smart. He is what we call an "idiot", with repetitive movements and lack of imagination and creativity. He is not intelligent, but he is a good person. He won't be good in too many things normaly, even if whatever he does strikes gold. Of course the movie is a tad far fetched. Of course they exaggerate.
But the main idea is that NO MATTER HOW WE ARE, we can still be good humans and serve the society.
We have many people with disabilities. We mock at them, we look at them as if they were aliens. It's horribly hard for them. Add to their ongoing battle to survive our mockeries and you'd want to kill yourself, but be in their shoes. And still they manage to survive and be wonderful people.
It's important for the society to know how to "use" them as working humans. You cannot have a person who is in a wheelchair do physical work, but you can teach them to do office jobs, to craft many beautiful things, to do anything that doesn't require a lot of movement.
Forest Gump is stupid. But, even if he's not creative, he's still a "robot". He's wonderful at ping pong for instance since there's nothing in his mind to keep him from the goal "keep your eyes on the ball and only on the ball". This is the explanation he gets about ping pong. Nothing about strategies, nothing about tricks. Just keep the ball in your sight.
even if "simple", his mind still works. Give him the appropriate task and he'll manage it.
I think it's the same in normal society too. OK: so this person is not too intelligent. This one cannot walk, this one has no hands. Let's see how we can accomodate them, how we can make them useful (they feel wonderful if they are involved too, not just staying at home alone), how can we show them we respect them as human beings too.
The movie was emotional and a wonderful lesson for all of us.
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In Sony Pictures Animation's first feature film, the animated action adventure comedy Open Season, the odd are about to get even.
Boog (Martin Lawrence), a domesticated grizzly bear with no survival skills, has his perfect world turned upside down when he meets Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) a scrawny, fast-talking mule deer. When Elliot convinces Boog to leave his cushy home in a park ranger's garage to try a taste of the great outdoors, things quickly spiral out of control.
Relocated...
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In Sony Pictures Animation's first feature film, the animated action adventure comedy Open Season, the odd are about to get even.
Boog (Martin Lawrence), a domesticated grizzly bear with no survival skills, has his perfect world turned upside down when he meets Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) a scrawny, fast-talking mule deer. When Elliot convinces Boog to leave his cushy home in a park ranger's garage to try a taste of the great outdoors, things quickly spiral out of control.
Relocated to the forest with open season only three days away, Boog and Elliot must acclimate in a hurry. They must join forces to unite the woodland creatures and take the forest back!
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