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Anon waits at a bus stop (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago

I finally read the book and Forrest is not mentally deficient at all in the book.

In the book, he's a very aware, intelligent person who's good at focusing on and solving problems but has a speech impediment.

Maybe the movie tried to do that, but I don't think they tried to do that.

He also goes to space with a chimpanzee.

The book is pretty crazy.

[-] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago

You're not wrong they literally have a scene talking about his test scores showing his mentally deficiency on a written test.

In the film he's a diagnosed retard.

[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Why are you just repeating him?

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Which you could charitably read as them not understanding that a speech impediment doesn't translate to lower intelligence, but reading the book is very jarring because it's basically narrated by this almost hyper self-aware character who became famous for being portrayed as unthinking, literally mentally challenged and falling into all of these events.

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