The Innocent and the Interpreter: Forrest Gump

How does a man with unchanging beliefs navigate a world that constantly reinterprets history? We ask whether innocence can ever truly protect us from the weight of our own convictions – and whether Gump’s simplicity is a mirror or a mask.
Key questions: Does the film ask us to celebrate or critique passivity? How does Gump’s detachment from ideology become a kind of ideology itself?