After putting his son on the school bus, Forrest Gump sat on a low stump with a serious expression, as if lost in thought. The camera slowly moved down and stopped on the feather at his feet. At this time, a gust of wind blew the feathers up, and the feathers rose slowly, flying higher and higher, and drifting farther and farther. It danced over the jungle and then floated into the distant and unknown sky.
This is the beginning and end of Forrest Gump directed by Robert Zemeckis. In all movies, these two shots are classics. Flying feather not only exists as a prop in the film, but as a metaphor, which runs through the whole drama. In Forrest Gump, Robert Zemeckis discussed a serious and huge topic-fate with humorous style and exaggerated techniques. With his unique and poetic artistic expression, Robert metaphors the heavy fate proposition in A Feather, and unfolds the fate theme among the slowly fluttering feathers. In the falling feathers, the topic ended temporarily, and people continued to ponder and think after the film ended. Only a superb director can create such superb art.
"My mother always said that life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get."
On the bench at the bus stop, Forrest Gump began to tell his legendary experience. Fate is dim and unknown, just like a feather floating without direction. Who would have thought that a mentally retarded person with an IQ of only 75 who was not admitted to a normal school would become a college student, a football star, a Vietnam War hero, a table tennis star, a congressional medal winner and even a billionaire.
Does the God of Destiny particularly like this silly Gansu? If we think about it carefully, we will find that this is not the case. Although Forrest Gump is not smart enough, he does, as his mother said, "Stupidity is due to stupid actions, but he can never think of himself as stupid." He tries to do everything well. He never pursues anything deliberately, but success comes quietly in his efforts without utilitarian consciousness. Forrest Gump's success, in addition to his efforts, has a lot to do with some of his innate qualities. Just as his honesty won the friendship of Captain Dan, his loyalty and persistence made his shrimp catching career and love.
One day, he woke up and found that Jenny had left. He started a run lasting 3 years and 2 months 14 days 16 hours. "I decided to run for a while, so I ran to the end of the road. Finally, I thought I had reached the bottom of the town. When I got there, I thought I had passed through Lvgong County. I think since I have run so far, I should run across Alabama. For no particular reason, I have been running. I ran to the seaside, and when I got there, I thought since I ran here, I might as well go back and run. I went to another ocean and thought that since I ran so far, I would simply go back and continue running. " Perhaps this sentence can explain why fate favors Forrest Gump. For Forrest Gump, life is like a running without any special reason, with no fixed end, just running nonstop. As Forrest Gump said in the film, "If you want to move forward, you must forget the past. I think this is the purpose of running. "
Unlike Forrest Gump, Jenny and Babu have established life goals and deliberate pursuits. The difference is that one is out of the desire for fame and the other is out of love. What happened to them, I think, may represent two different forms of fate.
"You know what? I want to be famous. To be a famous singer like Joan Beth, I want to be on an empty stage, only my guitar and voice, only my solo. " On a rainy night, Jenny said this to Forrest Gump. Jenny is bent on becoming a folk singer and makes unremitting efforts for it. However, her dream was finally dashed and she became a restaurant waiter. On the stage of a theater in Memphis, she sat alone on the stage, playing "Answers Flying in the Wind" with her guitar, and the audience was crowded. However, they all just want to see her body. She was once confused about life, and one scene left a deep impression on me: Jenny stood on the railing at the edge of the rooftop at night, with open arms, trying to bid farewell to nothingness and despair with a fall. The wind blows her long hair and slightly old face mercilessly. She looked back, paused for a moment, and finally climbed down the railing and fell feebly on the chair, tears overflowing from the corner of her eyes. In the sky, the moon is covered by dark clouds.
Babu is an interesting character in the film. His ideal is to be the captain of a shrimp boat. He knows shrimp like the back of his hand. He talks about it all day and will always be a shrimp. The first time I met Forrest Gump, I talked to him about shrimp. He said he was going to do shrimp business after he retired from the army. Babu wanted to be the captain of a shrimp boat, but he died in the Vietnam War. Perhaps, this is fate, and no one can predict.
In this film, Robles tries to convey another view of fate through the role of Captain Dan. Dan believes that "people's fate has long been doomed, nothing is a coincidence, everyone has a plan." People should not try to change, nor can they change their own destiny. Dan comes from a military family, and his ancestors have sacrificed for the United States on the battlefield for generations. He thinks he should die on the battlefield, which is an honor for a soldier. For him, coming back from the battlefield is a complete shame-and after losing his legs. Because of this view, after returning to the United States, Dan lived by "drinking the milk of the country" and his life was chaotic. Later, under the influence of Forrest Gump, he rekindled his confidence in life and showed his talent in managing enterprises.
At the end of the film, Forrest Gump, like the audience, stood in front of Jenny's grave and asked such a question: "I don't know whether Mom is right or Captain Dan is right. I don't know if it's destiny takes a hand, or go with the flow. I guess it's both, maybe both happen at the same time. " Who can give a constant answer to the proposition of fate?
Ear, Jenny's song "The answer is driving in the wind" sounded again.
How many roads do people have to walk?
Be worthy of being a gentleman
How many seeds did the white dove save?
Live on the beach
How many times have the shells been fired?
Cease fire forever
Friend, the answer is blowing in the wind. ...