Why do people hate forrest gump

Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Back to IndieWire. But these days, it's even more problematic than it used to be. So there was a big conflict. She taught nursery school at a government building in Oklahoma City. History happens around Forrest, but the importance of that history can never really be considered. If Forrest Gump were a sharper movie, that would be the satire—the distance of time makes our history look small despite its undeniable importance. But because Forrest Gump wants to be a feel-good drama, it avoids discomforting its audience.

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since Since , Pulp Fiction has become a favorite of young cinephiles, and for good enough reason.

Forrest Gump is a softer, simpler film than either of these, so the notion that it could beat either of them for Best Picture is an infuriating one to many people.

Forrest Gump was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. To be blunt, people take themselves too seriously. This is nothing new, of course. To some degree, sentimentality has always been viewed as a little lowbrow. Which leads us to…. Think of the way this film depicts veterans. At a Vietnam War protest, Forrest Gump talks about the war, but the movie doesn't let us hear him speak because if he's not saying something dumb and charming relating life to a box of chocolates, then who gives a shit?

In an office occupied by the Black Panther Party, one member starts talking to Forrest, who's still in his Army uniform. Yes, we are against any war where black soldiers are sent to the front line to die for a country that hates them," he tells Forrest, who is clearly not listening to a thing the man says.

Then, the music swells so that the audience can't hear him either. Because Forrest is better than politics. Politics aren't necessary if you're as pure as Forrest Gump. One of Jenny's boyfriends, an activist with Students for a Democratic Society, is physically abusive to Jenny.

As Forrest runs across America, journalists ask him why he's doing it. Is it for world peace , they suggest, or homelessness, or women's rights, or the environment? Animal rights? The journalists are made out to be idiots.