Faith through Film and Fiction

Katherine Williams
Faith in Film
Mr. Salkil
31 August 2015

Forest Gump:

People always discuss this movie but I had never actually seen it. I've seen parts of it from Heritage and Western Studies but never all of it. I came into the film with high expectations from all the reviews I've heard before from classmates and adults. I usually hate war movies and a lot of violence but there wasn't even that much battle and it was mostly about the society surrounding the war in America which is really interesting.

I had a lot of subjective preferences in the film because I had heard a lot about how great it is. I feel that the violence in the film, the very few there was, was justified because it upheld the story line like when he got shot in the butt and got an award or when he tried to save Bubba from the war.

I watched it on my computer because I couldn't buy it on my television. I think that it would've been much better in the theaters because the music and the actors speaking would be more intense. I liked the track list a lot because it's all older, calm music. I feel that all scenes should be seen on a big screen because it is easier to focus on more of the scenery as well as the characters and gives you more emotion. The end scene with the bus would be a lot better on the big screen seeing the bus get smaller and watching the feather float away slowly. All in all, I really enjoyed the film and would recommend it as an original everyone must see.