Same here … as a story it also feeds that false mentality of “you can do anything as long as you try”

It’s a work of fiction that everyone knows is fiction but they really really really want it to be true, even though it is so far removed from reality.

Forrest Gump is super racist revisionist history, where a low-IQ white male accidentally causes all sorts of large political and social historical events that were actually initiated by black people in real life. Plus there’s a ton of other messed up sexist/racist portrayals throughout the film. It’s a pretty awful film. And it stole the Oscar from Shawshank Redemption!