Forrest Forrest Gump

On a side note Forrest Gump is my favorite movie ever ;)
I love how it ties in historical events and attempts to make comments about them while remaining funny and with more memorable scenes than any movie I have ever seen.
Anyway..

One o the main aspects that the movie retold was the 60's era. With feminism, Vietnam, tons of drugs, and racial oppressions boiling, it was a lot going on.

I thought the movie commented very early on feminism by Forrest's mother being a single mother and doing more than fine with out having a male figure.

Secondly Forrest Gump dealt with racism by what the articles talked about as "colorblind", and rather Gump was just stupid or not, I think his dealings with others from another race showed that all of us were equal. And intrestingly at the end of the film, Lt. Dan's wife was Asian, showing that even he had grown by merrying what was is "enemy".

And a large part of the movie showed the repercussions on what war had done to the soldiers and those directly effected by the war. But also gave a depiction of what it had done to our country, with a hint of negativity to those that stayed home and protested the war. While I have mixed feelings about this entire part of the movie, I do not agree with how the filmed framed the protesters as hippies and drug abusers.

Regardless... love some forrest gumps.