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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was annoyed with it, with its popularity eclipsing other, better films that year. It’s really just a 20th century version of the old literary tradition of the “wise fool” through which simple, innocent “fools” are used to reveal truths or wisdom. In their simplicity they see things more clearly or act more purely than those with a more complex perspective on life. Forrest Gump was this literary trope on steroids and the joke of inserting him in pretty much all major events of late 20th century American history was overdone. But it was cute and seemed clever and connected with a lot of people who like to think that simplicity, kindness, and sheer optimism can get you through life swimmingly, when, really, for Forrest it was mostly sheer luck and white man privilege.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_fool[/quote]

Cuba Gooding Jr. could have played the role and everyone still would have loved it and he would have walked away with an award.

There’s no such thing as white man privilege in Forrest Gump aside from his ancestral southern home. [/quote]

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