I ask you: Is there any _real_ difference between Forrest Gump and say, Navin R. Johnson of THE JERK (except that maybe the jerk was a whole lot funny and didn't have the awful tendency of repeating itself every five minutes, that really annoyed me in GUMP, the voice over says one thing and the dialoge in the action of the film says it all over again--did they think they were being absurdist? Did they think they were being Beckettian? Did they think at all? P.s., I am very pleased with the filmmakers fearlessness when it comes to the really BATHETIC! we need more films that aren't afraid of making people cry... Cheers, warren