Forrest Gump: A Life of Unintelligent Guy Forrest Gump is the drama and romance movie created by Robert Zemeckis in 1994. The main actor is Tom Hanks, who plays the role of Forrest Gump who is not intelligent and he is more inferior to other people due to his mental and physical ability. This story tells and narrates us about his previous life since he was young. It is the inspiration for some people, who might not be smart and intelligent like Forrest, to be successful like him because he always does for other people not for himself. Moreover, this movie won six Academy Awards in 1994 including Best Picture and Best Actor in leading role awarded by Tom Hanks. This movie is also admired and acceptable from a lot of movie critics to be one of the best movies ever. Opening scene begins when Forrest is waiting for the bus at bus stop and he narrated his previous life to people who are sitting and waiting for the bus. When he was young, he faced with his physical problem and he could not normally walk or run like others. Unfortunately, his friends and people physically and verbally abused him all the time; however, he could overcome his physical problem. It was because he only thought that he had to run straight and away from the danger according to Jenny, who was his friend and lover, said and taught him. Due to his talent, fast running, he was admitted to study at college and being a school’s footballer. After graduation, he was chosen to be the army to Vietnam War. At there, he met his best friend, Bubba, and they had good time during army camp. During the war, when he was in trouble and he thought about Jenny said to him “Run Forrest! Run! Don’t be brave. Just run away when you were in danger”. Finally, he survived from Vietnam War and he could help his friends to survive also. Nevertheless, his best friend named “Bubba” was dead because of wound from bullet shooting. Importantly, this is my favorite scene because we can see that Forrest never think about himself, he always do and act for other people surrounding him because he is a good guy whereas some people look him as a fool and stupid guy due to his mental problem. Obviously, he could handle his obstacles with unconsciousness. He just ran and ran. He just did and did that he had to do. He proved to everyone and became like a hero from Vietnam War. Moreover, he began to be a fisherman due to his promise with Bubba and succeeded in his career life as the owner of Bubba Gump. Although his life is not much beautiful such as friend and love, but he could handle and go through it. He always remembers like his mom said ‘Life is like a box of chocolate, we never know what you’re gonna get’, it taught him that people do not know what is going to happen in their life because everything is not sure and being like we wish. However, Forrest met with Jenny and they got married each other. Regrettably, she was dead because of disease. In the end of story, Forrest sent his son to the school bus. We can see that the feather in this story that flow through the air is like the Forrest life because his life is flew and it seems to be unknown for its own destination. Forrest Gump is the movie that I have watched for several times since I was young. Although this movie is not a happy ending story like the romantic movie, but I learned that it is like a true life and story of people. Our lives are not exactly sure that what will happen and they are not beautiful like a heaven. Life contains of happiness and sadness like Forrest’s life. Moreover, I realize that people should have Forrest as an inspiration because he never give up on his destiny because he was born with disabilities like physical and mental problems, but he succeeds in his life because he just does what he want to do to achieve his purposes. The good examples are the scene that he ran across the states of America because he just wanted to run and he left everything behind him, especially Jenny and also the Vietnam War scene that Forrest tried to help Bubba and his friends whereas he didn’t care what is going to happen to him like death. This movie is worth enough getting the Academy Award and Tom Hanks becomes one of the best Hollywood actors until now in my eyes. Anyway, I recommend anyone to watch this movie to inspire you in the way of life.