DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]

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Cake day: October 12th, 2020

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  • For the longest time when I was a teen I had a more nihilistic take on this movie: life fucking sucks and you could work hard all day in your life only for some lucky chump to take it all.

    Jenny spend her life trying to pursue what she wanted while Forrest just bumbles through his life and got everything going his way. Lieutenant Dan wanted to become a big American warrior hero, something cruelly denied from him while Forrest became one without any intention to do so. Bubba died pointlessly. Then there’s the running sequence where Forrest who were just running for no reason at all came across numerous people struggle with their dreams and solves it for them unknowingly as he passes by.

    But yeah, as a leftist now the reactionary subtexts are much more apparent and my reading was the result of my at the time ignorance of American culture at the time, which says a lot that I perceived what was supposed to be a conservative triumph story into a story about how life is cruel and arbitrary.






  • Where the evil villain will go on a rant about how society is cruel and needs to change and that they’re going to change it. The hero opposes this for like zero reasons and somehow we’re supposed to be on the hero’s side.

    • The people are content with their lot but the villain just have to poison their mind with rabble-rousing.

    • Better thing is impossible, the villain’s goal is only achievable by doing something bad.

    • The villain is lying and only use the rhetorics to gain personal power.

    • The villain was good but “went too far” and just fell down the slippery slope.

    • What they’re going after is just not their right. It rightfully belongs to the hero or whoever they supported, as they’re the only people in the society deserving of the benefits or responsibility of whatever they’re fighting over by some infallible mandate.

    Straight up anti-communist rhetorics from the cold war.