Forrest Gump: A Second Look

Boomer: The Movie remains what I saw it as a few years ago when I went through Robert Zemeckis’ filmography: a heavily sanitized and incredibly safe travelogue through the 60s and early 70s. It’s unchallenging with a likeable but uninteresting lead character while it sands the edges down of everything that happened in the decade from Vietnam to Watergate to the drug culture to even AIDS, all while more interesting characters are shoved off to the side and ignored for long stretches. That it ...