"Forrest Gump": A period of life, three ways to live, identification, corruption, redemption, which one do you choose?

Many things in a person’s life have been determined since childhood.

Some children are born with a golden key in their mouths and have been well-fed and well-fed since childhood.

Some children are born in slums and are doomed to a life of misery from an early age.

Some children are smart and lovable since childhood.

Some children are born clumsy and have been looked down upon and laughed at since childhood.

If your child has a low IQ, slow reaction time, congenital spinal curvature, and is unable to live like a normal child, how will you raise him?

I don’t think many people can answer this question fluently. After all, no one wants their children to be born like this. "Forrest Gump", which has been rated as high as 9.5 since its release in 1994, is the best answer to this question.

Forrest Gump, the protagonist of the movie, has gone from a "moron" with limited mobility to a college student to a soldier, boss, husband, and father. He has counterattacked all the way and has become a model of success in people's minds.

Forrest Gump's life was full of confusion and clarity, misfortune was full of luck, his life story was tortuous but not bizarre, and his success was both unexpected and reasonable.

"Forrest Gump" teaches us seemingly normal people from the perspective of an abnormal person: how to live in this life.

1. The reconstruction of life starts with self-identification

What if the first lesson in our life is not how to learn pinyin, numbers, rules and systems, but how to learn " "Identify yourself", then I think there will be fewer people with low self-esteem in this world.

Unfortunately, we are not as lucky as Forrest Gump.

The protagonist of the movie, Forrest Gump, comes from a single-parent family. His spine has been bent since he was a child, his reactions are slow, and his intelligence is low. All of this looks terrible, but fortunately Forrest Gump has a good mother who saves him. His lifelong mother.

When A-Gump installed a foot brace in the hospital and walked home with her mother, when she faced the "overly" caring looks of several elderly people, her mother told her: Don't tell others that they are better than you. If God wanted to make everyone the same, He would give everyone a pair of braces.

When those malicious stones hit Forrest Gump again and again, they brought not only blood and tears, but also the "denial" of Forrest Gump and his person. and the denial of his past and future. In the eyes of those people, Forrest Gump's existence is just a "joke" and meaningless to them.

Fortunately, Forrest Gump is not a fool, or in other words, Forrest Gump never thinks that he is a fool, because only people who do stupid things are fools.

In Forrest Gump's heart, he has a strong sense of identity with himself. This self-identity is like the lower foundation of life. It determines the stability of the superstructure and how high your life can be. .

Jenny and Forrest Gump are like two sides of a mirror. One identifies with himself and is full of confidence in himself, while the other denies himself and completely denies himself. But Jenny has been smarter and smarter than Forrest Gump since she was a child. She should have a better life and a better future, but the mistake was that she denied her present and her past time and time again as she grew up. .

The reconstruction of life is an inevitable process in life. When those crumbling superstructures collapse, it is also the beginning of the reconstruction of life. When Jenny bravely faces herself and identifies with herself, her life It's already started again.

"Forrest Gump" conveys a lot of views and meanings, and what I like most is this "identity". After all, we have to live for ourselves in this life. If you can't agree with it, how can you talk about the future?

2. The change of life lies in the rebirth after the fall

In fact, many people neither have a lucky childhood nor a wise mother, nor do they learn " "Identify yourself", they are addicted to the past and cannot extricate themselves. They remain calm in front of others and burst into tears behind others.

Jenny, Forrest Gump’s wife, is such a person.

Jenny has no mother and has lived with her father since she was a child. The love her father gave her was "abnormal" and insulting, so she didn't like going home when she was young, and she wandered around when she grew up.

Jenny is a smart and kind girl who knows how to use her "advantages" to pave the way for her future life. But she didn't understand that this method would kill a thousand enemies and cause a hundred and eighty losses to herself.

In front of others, Jenny is beautiful, sexy, and free and easy. She drinks, smokes, takes drugs, and is promiscuous. She exiles herself in life, floating around like a feather, in order to forget the past and live. In any windless corner; but where is the queen Jenny? Lonely and lonely, looking at the haggard Jenny in the mirror, she couldn't face it and couldn't believe it.

The mirror is a special existence. It can not only reflect a person's appearance, but also reveal the most vulnerable parts of a person's heart. Jenny's corrupt life is like the surface of a mirror. The more you look inside, the more you can discover her involuntary pain and helplessness.

When Jenny stood on the balcony and prepared to end her life, and then broke down and cried because she was afraid of giving up suicide, it was also the time when she said goodbye to her corrupt life.

Jenny struggled out of the mud of depravity, tore off the rotten past stained on her body, and exposed her bright red and fragile skin to the sun. Her face regained the beauty of the past, with a Children, live an ordinary life, wave goodbye to the past, and usher in rebirth after the fall.

The change of life is also a process that people must go through in life. Those inescapable realities, stagnant life, and rotten past are always reminding you that you are a loser and urging you to change as soon as possible. Make changes.

The first thing to do in order to change is to tear off the thick "mud" wrapped around the body and dig out the most real vulnerability buried deep in the "mud".

Wake up in the pain full of tearing and contradiction, turn the rotten past into life nourishment, be reborn in the fall, and then bloom.

3. The reshaping of life is the liberation of self-salvation

When people are alive, they will definitely take detours, make mistakes, escape, and complain, but have you ever thought about us? How to change?

Like Forrest Gump’s mother, use your own thoughts to change Forrest Gump’s life; like Jenny, enjoy yourself in time, be free and happy, wallow in the mud, and change in depravity; like Lieutenant Dan, He wanted to die on the battlefield and use death to end everything, but in the end what saved him was having his soul "reshaped" by himself

After Lieutenant Dan left Vietnam, he lived by drinking every day. Living in confusion, in his heart, dying on the battlefield like his ancestors is the final destination. His soul was already riddled with holes and he was terminally ill.

I wonder if you have noticed what Lieutenant Dan has been saying: "Have you found your God?"

In my opinion, "God" here has two meanings, One level is "suicide" to seek relief and go to see God; the other level is struggling in life, and then finding the goal of living and regaining hope.

When they went out to sea to catch shrimps, Lieutenant Dan screamed in the storm, wanting to fight God to the death. He was angry, aggrieved, and unwilling. He roared in the wind and rain, and the thunder and lightning struck the depths of his soul, allowing him to wake up.

This awakening was accompanied by heartbreaking pain on the spiritual level. He had to face himself calmly. He had lost his legs, lost his past glory, lost the opportunity to make contributions, and became an ordinary person. people.

He reshaped his soul in pain, hiding the legs in his soul and balancing it with his body.

After the rain and the sky cleared, he jumped into the sea and swam freely in the sea. He no longer needed his legs, and his soul was free.

I think you will ask why people must reinvent themselves in life?

Because of the weathered life and the cruel reality, these make people become extreme or pathological in a subtle way, so the "reshaping" of life is extremely important.

When extreme or morbid psychology fills your life, you want self-salvation and liberation, and reshape the best way to save yourself.

Just like Master Amir in "The Kite Runner", when his new book is published and he becomes a famous writer, there is still a shackle in his heart, locking his soul, preventing him from completing his own redemption and redemption. relief.

So he returned to Afghanistan without hesitation, to the place where the mistake started, to bear the mistake, to make up for it, to find redemption, and to rebuild his soul. He found Hassan's son. He dueled with the shadow of his childhood, using the scars on his body to break the shackles on his mind.

When Hassan's son returned to the United States with Amir, he had a sincere smile on his face, the kind of relaxed smile that freed life, sincere and heartfelt.

There is also an interesting comparison in the movie:

It was also rain, the rainy season in Vietnam, which made them suffer a lot, but they were fine, but when the rain stopped, they came under artillery fire. In the attack, Babu was killed and Lieutenant Dan was seriously injured; in the storm in the bay, you went out to sea to catch shrimps, surrounded by dangers, but in the end you escaped by mistake and became rich.

Life is like this. You think you will die on the battlefield, but you don’t want to end up with physical and mental disabilities, and live worse than a "dog". No matter how beautiful it was in the past, it is all in the past and can never go back.

Memories are like barbs in my heart. It hurts every time I think about it. I don’t think about letting go until I’m bruised and bruised. I want to embrace a new life. When you really let go of yourself, you will find that the sea surface The sparkling waves and clear blue sky make it all worth it.

My favorite scene about this movie:

Forrest Gump returned from Vietnam, accepted the award, wore a straight military uniform, and took part in a game with medals full of honors. During the anti-war declaration organized by the "Beat Generation", Jenny and Jenny embraced each other in the fountain under the spotlight.

A soldier who participated in the Vietnam War tightly embraced an anti-war "Beat Generation". This is more beautiful, more beautiful, and more meaningful than any language.

"Forrest Gump" is like a mirror, shining on ordinary people, the country, and the world. Look deep into people's hearts to see if you are a smart person, a clumsy person, or a poor smart-aleck person.

A good movie can not only reflect the general environment of the times, but also touch people's inner world. He may have a specific meaning, but this does not prevent you from seeing your true self, the badness of life, and the beauty of life. I think this is why it was able to beat "The Shawshank Redemption" and win many awards.