Semotic Analysis of Forest Gump

The Film Forest Gump, Directed by Robert Zemeckis in 1994, takes us through the trail and tribulations of the character Forest Gump. Forest Gump is acted Tom Hanks, who does a wonderful job portraying the life of Forest Gump. We start the movie by seeing a feather fall from the skies to a man sitting on a park bench awaiting the #9 bus to come and get him. After the feather falls into his hand he then starts talking to the people next to him about his life stories. Although he seems to be mentally disabled in some form, he catches the hearts and souls of many of the people that come to sit around him, though there are a few that don’t believe in the stories that he tells. The stories include happenings of 30 years of Forest’s life in chronological order. Beginning when he was a child and gets his leg braces put on. This is where we notice two things. The first is that there is something “different” about Forest and the latter is just how caring Forest’s mother is for him...