‘Forrest Gump,’ 25 Years Later: A Bad Movie That Gets Worse With Age
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"Gump" backlash is nothing new. But these days, it's even more problematic than it used to be.

I was gonna do a writeup but this author sums up my thoughts pretty well. I always hated how the movie portrayed Jenny. It's like the movie tries to punish her for daring to move against the broader (white, patriarchal, militaristic, conservative) culture. Notice how she only receives redemption when she functionally gives up her counter-cultural ways and accepts her role as a mom. And even then she still gets "punished" for her "sins" by dying of AIDS like it's some Grimm fairy tale. Feels a bit like incel fan-fiction, in hindsight.

And of course the movie panders to white reactionary notions of the Black Panthers. They were just angry black men who were reverse racists. Gross.

Forrest Gump is incredibly reactionary and it's terrible. It's the conservative boomers' attempt to tell a morality tale in which they are the ultimate victors over their contemporaries who dared for something different.

  • Zizek [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Okay sho (schniff) Foresht Gump isch a movie yesh yesh a movie about the psychoshexual desire of all white americansh to be lobotimized it isch ableisht and reactionary and sho on and sho forth.

    Not a good movie, Tom Hanksh givesch a very mediocre performansch. It isch a liberal nostalgia for itsch arrogant preschumption about the end of hischtory. (gleeks wad of phlegm onto floor) A victory lap for ideological perverts to maschturbate over stripsch of celluoid and then literally project their maschturbation onto the eyesch of an entire nation!

    Foresht? He isch presented as a sort of parody of what the diseased neurotypical mind thinksch anyone that isch not the Aryan norm isch. (licking fingers, dipping them into bag of cocaine, then aggressively rubbing the cocaine into gums) The film isch also racist, it steals its conventions from old American minstrel schows. Tom Hanksch is only momentsch away from smearing schoe polisch over hisch face and singing "old man river" or schomething like thisch. Disgusting. The directors contempt isch clearly seen in their depiction of the Black Panther Party. Foresct Gump is racist.

    And the worscht part of thisch (snorting sounds, the crackling of cocaine being huffed by what could be mistaken for a truffle hog) yesch good shit okay - the worscht part of thisch is that America loved it!!

    For schome reason they make thisch Foresht man a reincarnation of Hermes, he can only run very fast and schow up in historical eventsch, but never change them. He isch an omen ov neoliberalischm and entropy. And like hisch counterpart Mercury, he isch profane and maddening.

    Lacan says that the anal neurosis can be impeded when it loses itsch natural antagonischt and rivalsch (clears throat, hacks up hairball of fiber glass, wool, and dandruff) and sho without the Schoviet Union, Amerika began to produce these filmsch of decay and celebration.

    To conclude, Tom Hanksch should be shot.

    :zizek-ok: okay? okay yesch