That movie was one of my favorites as a lib and I had seen it a couple of times. I don’t think I could watch it today without rolling my eyes so much I’d get dizzy.
It aged so poorly: “boomer goes through life with no agency and amazing things happen to him and around him and he ends up rich without really trying” is every spoiled boomer trope in film form.
Yeah that ties into the lack of agency. That generation didn’t need to think about things, no choices made that they can be held responsible for, an existence entirely in the passive voice.
Forrest Gump but that’s low hanging fruit
That movie was one of my favorites as a lib and I had seen it a couple of times. I don’t think I could watch it today without rolling my eyes so much I’d get dizzy.
It’s bad. Nicely shot I guess but really bad. Boomer nostalgia all the way through
It aged so poorly: “boomer goes through life with no agency and amazing things happen to him and around him and he ends up rich without really trying” is every spoiled boomer trope in film form.
Don’t forget the open anti intellectualism. Who needs to think when youre born at the right time?
Yeah that ties into the lack of agency. That generation didn’t need to think about things, no choices made that they can be held responsible for, an existence entirely in the passive voice.
Same. I used to really love that movie, but not sure I could watch it now without rolling my eyes the whole time.