I had heard abt the
N by all standards, I watched it very late, that constant reminder of it being a good movie didn't quite encourage me cos I thot, wat can be so good abt sme movie that has a weird name like forest gump... well i pretty much ate my words wen i sat down, with lotsa motivation, and watched the movie ... i have seen lotsa movies.. sme were entertaining, sme were stupid, sme were jus meant to be watched and forgotten and sme were to be remembered and talked about and forest gump definitely fell in2 that category... this movie compelled me to write abt it, i jus felt so touched by forest's simplicity, his strength of character, his honest and unconditional love for everyone and his willingness to live the moment and nt care abt wat his destiny was supposed to be... and that is pretty much wat we all don't have... or atleas i'd like to say that for myself... we r so driven by the desire of or wanting of smething everytime, we r materialistically driven and in the wake of that we tend to 4get that we all r born to die so no matter wat all 'great' things we mite do we all r going to land up in the same plc... and so even if i strive to be better than sme1 i jus land up wasting my time being smething i mite not really wan to be...
One thing abt the movie i like is the fact that forest never gives ne thought to wat others have to say abt him.. nothing affected him, all he cared abt was wat he wanted to do even if it meant running for 3 yrs n sme days n 16 hrs(i remember sme facts atleast), and he very clearly confessed that he ran for nothing in particular( i love the way he says 'particularly' wit an accent)..He loved one girl all his life maybe knowing that she would never love him back but that did not deter him from wat he felt.. Passion is the word that i would most probably use as a synonym for him.. give al it has to life and consequently life gives u back everything... Life comes full circle (that i hav heard smewhr).. but very true...
N then there is a part where he is in Vietnam, he is in the middle of the war where he cud die ne moment but he still goes bak to find his fren to save him... and wen he is unable to that he still remembers to keep the promise that he made to him, put all his savings into that and never regrets wat he has done... i mean how many of us really do that, i can't remember even once if i have been able to trust a person, forget trusting him/her blindly... so there is no ques of doing smethin for someone... its more of a give and take gesture, its more of a selfish world and I don't deny being very much part of it. and how i really feel sad abt it, i cant really have true frens or genuine people, or even if i do have em i don't really know abt it, cos there is no test of sincerity that i knw of... cos unless i let em pass that test i have no way of believing that... i hate to admit all this but i have no choice...
M myself wondering as to why m i writing abt this movie, but somewhere (amidst crying of course) i realised that life is getting too complicated.. m running, u r running n maybe we all are, but the ques arises ... 4 what?????? I don't really have ans for that but one thing i knw that i want to run one day for smething i'd like to run for... or maybe "for no particular reason"... and that day I'd know that i have really lived my life and not somebody else's....
