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The role of film and video as an apparatus of the recollection of history is a technology that burns in our memories to create a form of visual relation to events that one has not personally experienced. It is a powerful way to form a cultural reminiscence. Forrest Gump, named after the great civil war hero General Nathan Bedord Forrest who started the KKK, is the tale of a low I.Q. man, played by Tom Hanks, narrating the story of his life on a bus stop bench to anyone who will listen. While the audience becomes more and more engaged and inspired by his story, Gump allows us to enjoy the comedy as he escorts us through the many historic moments with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's: playing football, Ping-Pong, writing slogans, as well as meeting with Elvis Presley, George Wallace, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Dick Cavett, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, and reporting the Watergate break-in.
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