Good afternoon, boys and girls! Today I intend to introduce an old film that had been praised as an epic work ever since to all of you at present. During the 1990s in America, the anti-intellectual movies are in favor, which advocated low intelligence and aimed at returning to the original. And the film that we’re going to talk about and had won six Oscar awards at one time is, beyond doubt, the masterpiece of them.

The movie’s hero is named Forrest Gump, played by Tom Hanks, a influential Hollywood star who acted the leading role in Saving Private Ryan, The Da Vinci Code such great works.

Gump is a thoroughly decent man with an IQ of 75, who manages between the 1950s and the 1980s to become involved in every major event in American history. And he survives them all with only honesty and niceness as his shields.

And yet this is not a heartwarming story about a mentally retarded man. The movie is more of a meditation on our times, as seen through the eyes of a man who lacks cynicism and takes things for exactly what they are. Watch him carefully and you will understand why some people are criticized for being "too clever by half." Forrest is clever by just exactly enough. And Tom Hanks may be the only actor who could have played the role. After seeing how Hanks makes him into a person so dignified, so straight-ahead, I can't think of anyone else as Gump. The performance is a breathtaking balancing act between comedy and sadness, in a story rich in big laughs and quiet truths. Then let’s review the legendary life of the so-called idiot.

Forrest is born to his mom, an Alabama boardinghouse owner who tries to correct his posture by making him wear braces, but who never criticizes his mind. When Forrest is called "stupid", his mother tells him, "Stupid is as stupid does," and Forrest turns out to be incapable of doing anything less than profound. Also, when the braces finally fall from his legs, it turns out he can run like the wind and will never be bullied by peers.

And this talent is how he gets a college football scholarship, in a life story that eventually becomes a running gag about his good luck. Gump the football hero becomes Gump the Medal of Honor winner in Vietnam, and then Gump the Ping-Pong champion, Gump the shrimp boat captain, Gump the millionaire stockholder, he gets shares in a new "fruit company" in his mind named Apple Computer. And Gump is the man who runs across America and then retraces his steps. It could be argued that with his IQ of 75 Forrest does not quite understand everything that happens to him. Not so. He understands everything he needs to know, and the rest, the movie suggests, is just surplus. He even understands everything that's important about love. He falls in love with his childhood playmate in grade school and never falls out of love with the miserable girl named Jenny. Eventually, his persistence is rewarded with the fruit of love, his son Jenny brings to him.

The movie is ingenious in taking Forrest on his tour of recent American history. The director is experienced with the magic that special effects can do, and here he uses computerized visual legerdemain to place Gump in historic situations with actual people.

Forrest stands next to the schoolhouse door with George Wallace, he teaches Elvis how to swivel his hips in his dance, he visits the White House three times, he's on the

TV show with John Lennon, and in a sequence that will have you rubbing your eyes with its realism, he addresses a Vietnam-era peace rally on the Mall in Washington. Special effects are also used in creating the character of Forrest's Vietnam friend Lt. Dan, a able-bodied actor who quite convincingly loses his legs in the screen.

Using carefully selected TV clips and dubbed voices, director is able to create some hilarious moments, as when the thirty-sixth President of the United States examines the wound in what Forrest describes as "my butt-ox". And the biggest laugh in the movie comes after Nixon inquires where Forrest is staying in Washington, and then recommends the Watergate Affair.

The director also does well in the plot design full of philosophy. As Forrest's life becomes a guided tour of straight-arrow America, Jenny goes on a parallel tour of the counterculture. She becomes the symbol of degradation. She's into psychedelics and flower power, antiwar rallies and love-ins, drugs and needles. Finally it becomes clear that between them Forrest and Jenny have covered all of the landmarks of American recent cultural history, and the accommodation they arrive at in the end is like a dream of reconciliation for our society. What a magical movie.

Apart from visual impact, the film gives us deep inspirations about how to lead a life.Just as Gump’s mom tells, life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get. The future is full of uncertainties,and what we can do is to believe ourselves, never give up and never think we’re inferior to others, just like Forrest. He focuses all of his wisdom, faith and courage on one point, just run and run.Nothing is important to him but run. So let’s move on seek for the beauty of life.And one day wo will come to the ideal destination.

第二篇：《阿甘正传》英语读后感

《阿甘正传》英语读后感

"Mom always said life is just like a box of chocoles. You'll never know what you gonna get."

Ever find the grind of life getting you down? Is the day-to-day struggle threatening to drag you under? If so, there is a movie out there that can replenish your energy and refresh your outlook. Passionate and magical, Forrest Gump is a tonic for the weary of spirit. For those who feel that being set adrift in a season of

action movies is like wandering into a desert, the oasis lies ahead. Forrest Gump who is unfortunately to be born with a lower IQ and the muscle problem, usually, people always think this kind of person

can't be successful in doing anything. But, instead, this unlucky man has achieved lots of incredible success, he is a football star, a war hero, and later a millionaire!

In the contention of the best picture of the 67th Oscar Award in 1995, film <Forrest Gump> Have got six Grand Prixes , such as the best picture , the best actor , the best achievement in directing ,

adapting drama , the best achievement in film editing and the best visual effect bestly ,etc. at one blow . The film was passed to a intellectual disturbance person the description of life has reflected every aspect of U.S.A.'s life, important incident of social political life make and represent to these decades such as U.S.A. from one unique angle. Film adapt Winston novel of the same name of Groom since.

Forrest Gump mould incarnation of virtue is honest keeping one's word , conscientiously , brave paying attention to emotioning among film. In the film, Forrest Gump is a very pure image, but Jenny has become the degenerate symbol. And write the great discrepancy

originally in this. To all that narrated, since beginning all behave

with a kind of tender feeling and well-meaning attitude after all for the film, having even joined poesy composition, this makes the film seem soft and have no injury. The film advocates to traditional moral concept and embodiment. Make film apt to accept by people, director superb lay out skill and film application of language make the film very attractive too. Success with commercial for film content of the film has given security, and the treatment on director's art makes the film more excellent, this is reason that the film succeeds. It was the box-office hits the most in that year to become U.S.A. in