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阿甘正传Forrest Gump Stupid is as stupid does, says Forrest Gump. Gump, gifted with a low IQ which lets him be adorably childlike even as he grows up, leads a very charmed life: a mother who loves him immensely and who sleeps with the school principal in order to make sure her child has the best education, a miraculous incident that eliminates the need for him to have braces for his legs, a childhood girlfriend who remains faithful to him till the end, surviving Vietnam with a medal, and, in general, a propensity for turning everything that happens to him into good. I wonder what the movie is trying to say. From one perspective, it implies that intelligence is a very unnecessary trait特点，品质. But I think one can look beyond that and say that childlike innocence, which can be considered stupid, has its rewards. Throughout the movie, Gump is in situations where he is harassed by other people but he never takes offense (except, of course, when his girl Jenny is being abused) at any of the insults thrown at him. He is indeed not completely stupid, even though he is portrayed as such, since he can re-assemble guns at high speed, run like crazy, play ping-pong like a maniac, and so on. Gump is contrasted to the famous males, who are idols (in some cases) in todays society, and it appears as though he is better off in comparison: Gumps choices in life seem to determine his niceness (he goes to Vietnam, keeps his promises (a promise is a promise), harbours no ill-feelings or grudges, and is not greedy with fame or money) and successes. Contrast this to the choices his lifetime girl friend Jenny makes: she wants to be famous and rich, but ends up being a druggie. The traditional male heroes that we have had are all dysfunctional不正常的 in some respect or another and we are lost without heroes, as Bloom points out. Gump is a new kind of a role-model; hes A Nice Boy and everyone knows theyre hard to find. As one reviewer said: Today the last American hero is a Tom Hanks character wi