To present a dream in moving images is not an easy task and one is not talking about a ‘dream sequence’ here. It would be quite safe to comment that few movies ever in the history have been able to present a dream as successfully as Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump.

The film is about an everyday American citizen comprising of all the qualities and shortcomings evident in ay one of them, with an IQ of 75. The film traces his life from the 1950s to the 1980s where in some way or the other Gump gets involved in almost every historical event of significance. Now, presenting the plot in words makes it sound like any conventional touching narrative about a mentally challenged man and here lays the unique feat achieved by the film as Forrest Gump is much more than that.

Through the character portrayals of Forrest (Tom Hanks) and Jenny (Robin Wright Penn), the director traces two accounts of America’s socio-political and cultural history. While Forrest takes the mainstream rollercoaster from becoming a football hero to Medal of Honor winner in Vietnam to Ping-pong champion to a captain of a fishing trawler to finally a millionaire stock holder, Jenny, his childhood flame, decides to take the counter culture ride immersing into psychedelic, flower power, antiwar movements, free love, drugs and needles ultimately together tracing all the chapters of modern history. Hence their final meeting and reconciliation appears nothing short of a pure dream space and here lies the delight of the film.