As a classic film, the rating of "Forrest Gump" can be described as very high, douban 9.5 points.
Although it is a 1994 film, almost 30 years ago, it can be said that it has touched people across generations, and even, to some extent, has become part of the collective memory.
"Bouquet of Flowers for Alginon" is a literary work, published in China in 2015, Douban score 9.1, there are films and TV series of the same name adapted from the book, the rating is also quite high, but because this work has its particularity, I personally feel more shocked by the reading process.
Forrest Gump and Charlie, the protagonist of "A Bouquet for Alginon", have in common that their IQ is lower than that of ordinary people, and their birth family, the conditions are not too bad, and can even be counted as middle class.
But after starting from these two similar points, they took a completely different path.
Their whole life is also a completely different life.
People often say that there is nothing new under the sun, everyone's life, can not be their own completely independent life, but with their relatives inextricably linked, infinite entanglement of a life, our fate affects their fate, their fate permeates all aspects of our destiny, so from the point to the line into one piece, become the so-called society.
Charlie's mother can not accept Charlie's mental disability, as a mother, when she found out that Charlie has intellectual problems, she is broken, but also crazy, she desperately wants to make Charlie normal, in her own way, so she trained Charlie madly, in a state of loss of control like a madman want to pull up seedlings, want to cut, carve, reshape Charlie, once Charlie can not do what she asked, is the storm of anger and hysterical beatings, Charlie's father tried to stop, useless, Charlie's school returns Charlie, and no one else plays with him, and even though Charlie is always kind and has done what others seem to be good within his ability, his mother is still unable to accept his existence.
Charlie was beaten to the head by his mother countless times and bleeding, and he still loves her very much.
During the years of being tortured by her mother, Charlie slowly became trembling and very afraid of her mother, who was a graceful, beautiful, intelligent, proud woman, who could not accept that she had given birth to a child like Charlie, nor could she withstand the pointing eyes of others, and after the failure of the crazy transformation plan, she decided to have a new child.
After the birth of his sister, Charlie's life at home was more difficult, his mother hated him and regarded her as his shame, and his sister also hated Charlie because of his mother's hatred, and then Charlie was sent away and sent to a special place, no different from being abandoned.
Later, his parents and sister almost forgot that in this world, there is Charlie as a person.
It was Charlie's uncle who picked him up and put him to work in the bakery.
Although Charlie was always bullied by other people in the bakery, scolding, fooling, and teasing at every turn, Charlie worked hard, was kind to people, and desperately tried to learn to read.
At the beginning of the novel, it is based on the continuous development of Charlie's diary, Charlie writes a progress report is "a near step", sometimes writes upside-down words, and there are problems with his cognition, so looking at his diary, seeing both his hardships and his tenacity, in short, it is like weeds overturning boulders and growing out, it is impossible not to make people cry.
Later, a professor asked Charlie to participate in a smarter experiment, and Charlie met a mouse named Alginon, who also participated in the experiment.
Alginon's short life, like Charlie's, did briefly become intelligent, and soon returned to his original state of intelligence, followed by continuous degeneration and death.
As Charlie slowly became intelligent, he slowly recalled his childhood experience at home, and his mother's violence against him gradually surfaced through memories, perhaps it was not too much to describe it as inhumane, and the bullying of his sister to him, the humiliation and cruelty of others to him, too.
After Charlie became clever, he became a household name, he found the place where he lived when he was a child, but his father did not know him for a long time, he went to visit his mother after getting a haircut in his father's barbershop, and his mother was old, as if she knew him, as if she did not know, only her sister remembered him.
Later, Charlie slowly regressed from the peak of intelligence to the original state, returned to the bakery to continue to be bullied, and then slowly reached the end of his life.
When Charlie was extremely clever, he developed a lot of things, wrote a lot of shocking things, he was respected, he was also afraid, he hated his former self, he wanted to destroy his past self, but that stupid Charlie, who had always been in his body, would run out in the dark night from time to time, observe him, and the clever Charlie was not happy.
On the other hand, Forrest Gump's life has undoubtedly been much happier.
He had the love of his mother—the love of accepting him as he was— and Jenny.
More importantly, Forrest Gump is good at running, playing table tennis, catching shrimp is also unexpectedly successful, back to his hometown to help people mow the lawn, but also did a good job, perhaps this and Forrest Gump's own intelligence level is not too low, but more importantly, Forrest Gump has not experienced everything Charlie, the mother's dislike, desperate transformation, discarding, welfare home, bakery, experiment.
Forrest Gump is a stone, and he exerts his own hardness.
Forrest Gump is a tree, and he blossoms and bears fruit.
Forrest Gump is a running antelope on the prairie, and he keeps running and running.
Forrest Gump is Forrest Gump himself, even if he does not run, does not play table tennis, does not catch shrimp, he may be able to help people mow the lawn and live a stable life.
Because, no one is going to change him.
They went with the flow and went their way.
The sun is bright The grass is bearing its seeds The wind is shaking its leaves We stood and didn't speak It's beautiful
Therefore, forrest Gump is certainly lucky to achieve Forrest Gump, but also the person who loves him and has achieved him.
But Charlie was different, and Charlie had no luck at all.
More than that, Charlie was a stone that would hurt, stumbling, being pushed up a hill, being pushed down a hill, and people wielding sickles and hoes, crushing him, reorganizing him, grinding away his edges and corners, crushing his body, forsaking him, spitting on him.
One step at a time, it became Forrest Gump.
One step at a time, he also became Charlie.
If we were born Forrest Gump, that is, Charlie, how hopeful, someone can say the words of Forrest Gump's mother before she died, I don't know why, maybe destined to become your mother, then I will be your mother.
If it's not mother, but Jenny, Lieutenant Dan, everyone else, we're going to do what we can, even if it's sitting on a bus stop bench listening to Forrest Gump and telling him how to go to Jenny's address, instead of doing anything else—what God won't let us do, we shouldn't do.
Of course, whether it is a movie or a book, its meaning is actually richer, deeper, and can be understood from more dimensions, but no matter what, the most touching and scarce in this world has always been a word of love.
The text is original, and the pictures come from the internet.