kayna

People often wonder (by "often wonder", what i mean is that it's come up before in conversation, at least once) what it is I despise soo much about Forest Gump. Naturally they assume its probably the ridiculously melodramatic, over-acted, unrealistic (that's the whole reason i watch movies! If I wanted realism, I'd sit on my front stoop all day!), inspiring-to-the-lowest-common-denominator attitude of the movie. Or, more likely, the fact that while translating the book to film, they inexplicably left out the fact that Forest was a savant, a math-genius code-breaker extrordinaire, and left us with nothing but a completely useless and UNinspiring idiot-with-a-heart-of-gold.. i mean, wtf is that all about?!?

but NO.

the truth behind my hate is simply this: in the last 10 years or so, I have NEVER ONCE seen ANYBODY take off running randomly, for whatever reason great or small, without some idiot yelling out "RUN, FOREST! RUN!!!" thinking that they're oh-so original and clever. Last night I had to run home 6 blocks, and 2 DIFFERENT PEOPLE yelled it out at me!!!!

fucking hell, people!

that is all.