Roger Ebert
July 6, 1994
I've never met anyone like Forrest Gump （阿甘） in a movie before, and for that matter I've never seen a movie quite like "Forrest Gump." Any attempt to describe him will risk making （冒險做某事） the movie seem more conventional （平常） than it is, but let me try. It's a comedy, I guess. Or maybe a drama. Or a dream.
The screenplay by?Eric Roth?has the complexity （復雜） of modern fiction, not the formulas of modern movies. Its hero, played by?Tom Hanks, is a thoroughly （徹底的） decent man with an IQ of 75, who manages between the 1950s and the 1980s to become involved in every major event（重要的事件）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.（這並不是壹個關於智障人士的暖心故事。）That cubbyhole （本意指小房間，暗指前壹句的評價） is much too small and limiting for Forrest Gump. 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 （因為什麽而被批評） for being "**too clever by half （壹半） **." Forrest is clever by just exactly enough. （阿甘的聰明剛剛好）
Tom Hanks may be the only actor/who could have played the role.
I can't think of anyone else as Gump, after seeing how Hanks makes him into a person so dignified （有尊嚴的） , so straight-ahead （簡單的，直截了當的） . The performance is a breathtaking balancing act between comedy and sadness, in a story/rich in big laughs and quiet truths.（他的表演成功的平衡了喜劇和悲劇，這個故事充滿了歡笑和沈默的真理）
Forrest is born to an Alabama boardinghouse owner/(Sally Field) 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 （結果是，證明是） to be incapable of doing anything less than profound （具有深遠意義的） . Also, when the braces finally fall from his legs, it turns out he can run like the wind.
That's 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" named Apple Computer), and Gump the man who runs across America and then retraces （原路返回） 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 （文中指，表達出） , is just surplus （多余的） . He even understands everything that's important about love, although （引導讓步狀語從句） Jenny （主語） , the girl he falls in love with in grade school and never falls out of love with, tells him, "Forrest, you don't know what love is." She is a stripper by that time.
The movie is ingenious （巧妙的，足智多謀的） in taking Forrest on his tour of recent American history. The director,?Robert Zemeckis, is experienced with （對什麽很有經驗） the magic that special effects can do (his credits （功績） include the "Back To The Future" movies and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"), and here he uses computerized visual legerdemain to place Gump in historic situations with actual people.
Forrest stands next to the schoolhouse door withGeorge Wallace, he teaches Elvis how to swivel his hips （扭屁股）, he visits the White House three times, he's on theDick Cavettshow withJohn Lennon, and in a sequence （結果） that will have you rubbing your eyes with its realism（妳將會揉妳的眼睛去考慮事情的真假）, he addresses （對誰講話） a Vietnam-era peace rally （大型集會） on the Mall in Washington . Special effects are also used in creating the character of Forrest's Vietnam friend Lt . Dan (Gary Sinise), aRon Kovictype/who quite convincingly （令人信服，有說服力的） loses his legs.
Using carefully selected TV clips （聲音或影像的片段） and dubbed voices, Zemeckis is able to create some hilarious moments, as when LBJ 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. (That's not the laugh, just the setup.) As Forrest's life becomes a guided tour of straight-arrow （傳統的，正直的，循規蹈矩的） America, Jenny (played by?Robin Wright) goes on a parallel tour（平行的道路）of the counterculture （反主流文化） . She goes to California, of course, and drops out, tunes in, and turns on. She's into psychedelics and flower power （對迷幻等感興趣） , antiwar rallies（參加反戰集會）and love-ins, drugs and needles. Eventually it becomes clear that between them Forrest and Jenny have covered all of the landmarks of our recent cultural history, and the accommodation （住所） they arrive at in the end / is like a dream of reconciliation （和解） for our society. What a magical movie. 本段主要講了，雖然阿甘和珍妮走過了美國文化的地標性事件，走了兩條不壹樣的道路，但最後以他們兩在壹起為結局。
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James Berardinelli
September 05, 2014
Since its theatrical （戲劇的，劇場的） release in the summer of 1994, Forrest Gump has become one of those movies seemingly everyone is familiar with . It's a cultural touchstone （試金石） with lines like "Life is a box of chocolates（生活就像壹盒巧克力）" appearing everywhere from tee-shirts to greeting cards. The film's popularity was italicized （強調的） by the way it rampaged （橫沖直撞的） through the 1995 Oscars, winning six awards (including the "big three" of Best Picture, Director, and Actor).（1995年橫掃奧斯卡，包攬了6項大獎）Now, for its 20th anniversary, the decision has been made to do something Hollywood almost never does during the home video era （家庭影院時代） : a big screen re-release（大屏幕出現了）.
How to get people into theaters to watch (or re-watch) Forrest run when it's a lot easier to do it at home? Enter the IMAX gimmick （小把戲） . Calling it anything less crass would be dishonest/ since （引導原因狀語從句） there's no inherent reason/why Forrest Gump should be bulked up for IMAX沒有內在的原因說為什麽阿甘應該被搬上大熒幕(or pseudo -IMAX, depending on how one views the smaller AMC version of the product). Still, commercial considerations aside, there's something majestic about watching this tall tale unfold on a larger screen than one can find in the average family room. The IMAX format is a nice way to entice （慫恿） some viewers to see the movie in a theater while maintaining the original composition .（構成，組成）//20周年了，IMAX出來了，《阿甘正傳》作為壹部經典，值得去影院支持。
The original review holds up today because, unlike some decades-old （幾十年老的了） motion pictures, this one doesn't seem dated （過時的） . It wears its age well （永葆青春的感覺） . Here's what I wrote in 1994/when the movie was first released:
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 （補充，重新裝滿） your energy and refresh your outlook （滿血復活並能擁有全新的世界觀） . Passionate and magical, Forrest Gump is a tonic for the weary （疲倦的） of spirit （是疲憊靈魂的壹劑補藥） . For those who限定性定語從句(feel/that being set adrift in a season of action movies is like wandering into a desert, the oasis lies ahead.)
Back when Tom Hanks' movie career was relatively new, the actor made a film called Big, which told the story of a young boy forced to grow up fast as a result of an ill-advised （不明智的） wish made at a carnival. In some ways, Forrest Gump represents a return to the themes of that earlier movie. In this case, the main character remains a child in heart and spirit, even as his body grows to maturity （成熟的） . Hanks is called upon yet again to play the innocent .
Forrest Gump (Hanks), named after a civil war （內戰） hero, grows up in Greenbow, Alabama, where his mother (Sally Field) runs a boarding house （經營家庭旅館） . Although Forrest is a little "slow" (his IQ is 75, 5 below the state's definition of "normal"), his mental impairment （殘缺，不完整） doesn't seem to bother him, his mother, or his best (and only) friend, Jenny Curran (played as an adult by Robin Wright). In fact, the naiveté that comes through a limited understanding of the world around him gives Forrest a uniquely positive perspective（觀點，看法）on life. Across the span of the next thirty years, Forrest becomes a star football player, a war hero, a successful businessman, and a pop icon （壹個流行標誌） . Through it all, however, there is one defining element （因素即珍妮） in his life: his love for Jenny. She is never far from his thoughts, no matter what he's doing or where he is.
A trio of assets lifts Forrest Gump above the average "life story" (melo)drama : its optimism , freshness, and emotional honesty. Though the movie does not seek to reduce every member of the audience to tears, it has moments whose power comes from their simplicity. Equally as important is laughter, and Forrest Gump has moments of humor strewn （灑滿，充滿） throughout.
During the 60s and 70s, no topic more inflamed （激怒） the turbulent national consciousness （震蕩的全國性的思潮） than that of Vietnam（越南）and those who were sent overseas to fight.（在60到70年代，沒有什麽事比越戰更能引起人們震蕩的全國性的思潮）Forrest, as might be expected, has a singular viewpoint/on his time spent there: "We took long walks and were always looking for this guy named Charlie." This observation emphasizes the essence of the title character's nature.
Through the miracle of visual effects , Forrest meets his fair share of famous people - George Wallace, Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, and John Lennon. While mixing the real footage （影像，錄像的意思） of these notables （顯眼的） with new images featuring （由誰主演） Hanks is not a seamless （流暢的） process, the result is nevertheless effective. (This is a precursor of what would become commonplace in future films as the effects work employed here became refined .)
Forrest Gump has several messages, few of which require much digging into the subtext to unearth . The most frequently recurring theme is an admonition not to give up on life. Why surrender （投降） when you don't know what lies ahead ? By contrasting Forrest's life with the lives of those around him, and by showing / how the passage of time brings solace （慰藉） to even the most embittered （滿心怨恨的） earts, the movie underlines this point. 對比別人和阿甘的生活，說明時間是如何慰藉壹個憤世嫉俗的人的。
Tom Hanks won 1994's Academy Award for Philadelphia, but his performance here is more nuanced （細致入微的） . [With Forrest Gump, he would become only the second man to win back-to-back Lead Actor Oscars, joining Spencer Tracy 就是與奧黛麗赫本壹聲錯過的那個男銀，看了這個我才知道 .] The Alabama accent may seem a little awkward （尷尬） at first, but it doesn't take long for the acting（但不會花很長時間就發現他的表演不會）to dwarf （ v.使什麽相形見絀 ） the twang . Hanks fashions a human character free of guile and deceit , and barely able to comprehend （理解）a concept like evil. Robin Wright gives the best performance of her career, surpassing （超過） what she accomplished in The Playboys. Looking and seeming like a younger Jessica Lange （壹個早期的美國女演員，也拿過兩次奧斯卡） , she is believable as the object of Forrest's undying affection. The scene-stealer, however, is Gary Sinise. A renowned （出名的） stage director and actor（舞臺劇的演員）, Sinise is probably best known to film-goers (to the extent that he is known at all) for his portrayal of George in 1992's Of Mice and Men (which he also directed). In this movie, his portrayal of Lieutenant Dan Taylor is riveting （引人入勝） . The passion and pain he brings to the middle portions of Forrest Gump hold together some of the film's weaker moments.
The soundtrack boasts a variety of sounds of the era - perhaps too wide a variety. Often, music can be useful in establishing a mood, but Forrest Gump rockets into the realm （範圍） of overkill （過分） . There are sequences/when the choice of song is inspired (the use of "Running on Empty" for Forrest's "long run" comes to mind), but the soundtrack could have used a little pruning（修剪）. There are times when it seems as much designed to sell CDs as to cement （水泥，引申為加固，加強） the setting.
Ultimately , however, any such gripes about Forrest Gump are minor（很小的）. This is a marvelous motion picture -- a mint julep on a hot summer's afternoon.
重要詞匯：
·Complexity: 復雜性 complicated: 復雜的，糾纏不清的
·Thoroughly：徹底的，完整的
·Major：主要的，重要的
·Be criticized for: 因為…被批評
·Too clever by half: 自作聰明
·Dignified：有尊嚴的，莊嚴的
·Straight-ahead：直截了當的，簡單的
·Turn out：發生（結果為）；被發現是
·Profound：影響深遠的；意義深刻的；知識淵博的
·Surplus：多余的，超出的
·Ingenious：精妙的，足智多謀的
·Credit：存款，信譽，功勞
·Convincing：令人信服的，有說服力的
·Clip：（影視/音樂的）小片段
·Hilarious：十分有趣，非常滑稽的
·Straight-arrow：耿直的，坦率的，循規蹈矩的
·Parallel: 平行線，平行的，類似的
·Reconciliation：和解，相互適應
·Italicized：斜體的，重要的（強調的）
·Rampage：橫沖直撞，暴怒
·Pseudo-：假的
·Entice：誘使，慫恿
·Replenish：補充，重新裝滿
·Weary：疲倦的，十分厭倦的（多用於書面語）
·Ill-advised： 不明智的，欠考慮的
·Strewn: 撒滿的，散播的，strew的過去分詞（常用被動態）
·Inflame：激怒，使加劇
·Seamless：流暢的，渾然壹體的；無縫的
·Admonition：告誡，警告
·Solace：安慰，慰藉
·Embittered：怨憤的，滿腹牢騷的
·Nuanced：細致入微的
·Dwarf：使…相形見絀，使矮小
·Twang：有著鼻音的口音
·Guile：狡猾
·Deceit：欺詐
·Comprehend：理解，領悟
·Renowned：有名望的
·Portrayal：描繪，扮演
·Riveting：令人著迷的，引人入勝的
·Realm：領域，範圍
·Overkill：過分，過火
·Cement：加固；水泥
·Gripe：所抱怨的小事；抱怨
·Marvelous：非凡的，令人驚異的
長難句：
1) Its hero, played by Tom Hanks, 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.
由湯姆漢克斯飾演的主角是壹個絕對的大好人，但智商只有75，他參與了上世紀50年代到80年代，美國每壹個重要的事件。
2) 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.
這部電影更像是對我們所處的這個時代的壹個反思，而這個反思，是從壹個沒有戾氣，就相信他所看見的就是真實的，這樣壹個人的角度出發。
3) 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.
結果發現，Forrest是壹個有能力去做很多具有重要意義的事情的人。而且，當支架從他腿上滑落下去的時候，妳會發現，他可以跑得像風壹樣快。
4) It could be argued that with his IQ of 75 Forrest does not quite understand everything that happens to him.
有人可能會說，Forrest作為壹個智商75的人，是很難真正理解他身邊所發生的壹切的。
5) He even understands everything that's important about love, although Jenny, the girl he falls in love with in grade school and never falls out of love with, tells him, "Forrest, you don't know what love is."
他甚至明白所有那些關於愛至關重要的事兒，盡管那個他從小學就開始愛，壹直愛到最後的妹子Jenny跟他說“Forrest， 妳根本不懂什麽是愛。”
6) As Forrest's life becomes a guided tour of straight-arrow America, Jenny (played by Robin Wright) goes on a parallel tour of the counterculture. She goes to California, of course, and drops out, tunes in, and turns on.
正如Forrest的壹生變成了美國傳統正直的旅行，Jenny（由Robin Wright飾演）走的是壹條平行空間的道路，是壹次反主流文化之旅。她去了加利福尼亞，當然，她逃避現實社會，去融入那個團體，而且內心的激情被點燃了。
7) The film's popularity was italicized by the way it rampaged through the 1995 Oscars, winning six awards (including the "big three" of Best Picture, Director, and Actor).
從電影橫掃1995年奧斯卡，贏得了6項大獎來看（包括最重要的三個獎項，最佳影片/最佳導演/最佳演員），無疑彰顯了它的受歡迎程度。
8) Still, commercial considerations aside, there's something majestic about watching this tall tale unfold on a larger screen than one can find in the average family room.
但是，商業考慮先放在壹邊，比起在普通的家裏看，這部巨制童話在寬銀幕上展開確實有壹下直的期待的東西。
9) For those who feel that being set adrift in a season of action movies is like wandering into a desert, the oasis lies ahead.
對於那些感覺被放逐在這壹整季動作片裏，就像是走進了沙漠壹樣的人，綠洲，就在前方了。
10) Back when Tom Hanks' movie career was relatively new, the actor made a film called Big, which told the story of a young boy forced to grow up fast as a result of an ill-advised wish made at a carnival.
回到那個時候，湯姆漢克斯的影視生涯才剛剛開始，他拍了壹部電影叫做“Big”，這部電影講述了壹個小男孩，因為在壹個嘉年華裏去了壹個不明智的願望而被迫迅速長大的故事。
11) In fact, the naiveté that comes through a limited understanding of the world around him gives Forrest a uniquely positive perspective on life.
事實上，正是因為對身邊的世界有限的認識所帶來的天真，給了Forrest壹種獨壹無二積極的世界觀。
12) Though the movie does not seek to reduce every member of the audience to tears, it has moments whose power comes from their simplicity. Equally as important is laughter, and Forrest Gump has moments of humor strewn throughout.
盡管這部影片沒有刻意去讓觀眾淚眼婆娑，但正是這種簡約的手法是的其中的壹些場景極富力量感動。同樣笑聲也是同等的重要，而且，阿甘這部電影中貫穿前後都充滿了幽默。
13) During the 60s and 70s, no topic more inflamed the turbulent national consciousness than that of Vietnam and those who were sent overseas to fight.
在上世紀60年代和70年代，沒有什麽話題比越南和那些被送到海外去打仗的人，更能夠激起全國性的動亂的思想了。
14) By contrasting Forrest's life with the lives of those around him, and by showing how the passage of time brings solace to even the most embittered hearts, the movie underlines this point.
電影通過對比阿甘和他身邊的人的生活，以及通過展示時間是如何給那些充滿怨恨的心靈帶來慰藉的方式，向我們再次強調了這壹點—— not to give up on life.
15) The passion and pain he brings to the middle portions of Forrest Gump hold together some of the film's weaker moments.
Lt. Dan這個角色所帶給阿甘這部電影中部的激情和痛苦，很好的整合改善了這壹階段電影中的薄弱情節。
16) There are times when it seems as much designed to sell CDs as to cement the setting.
有的時候，妳覺得電影配樂（用力過猛）就好像是要出CD專輯壹樣，而不是簡簡單單的去烘托加強電影場景。