I watched the very classical movie: Forest  last Friday in Rose dining hall. Before coming to US, I watched this movie when I was very small at China with my parents. At that time, I simply regarded this movie as a very normal movie which encourages people to head up and do things they want, because what distinguished Gum from others is that he is much more simple, and does not consider too much whenever he makes a decision. He simply did whatever he would like to do.

However, this time when I watched this movie, I view it from another perspective. First, kind of ironically, Jenny is a very strong, persistent and pretty girl: She had pain childhood memories related to the way her father treated her; She wants to be a singer, and is not afraid to travel around the whole country and leaves her hometown. But she failed almost every time she tried to do the things she wants. On the contrary, Gum never considers what his life “should be like”. Instead, he went to college, and became football star, went to Vietnam War and survived without losing part of body like others. He went home, rejected by Jenny, and ran. Then he became a a running star again. He bought the stocks of “Fruit company”(which is actually Apple) and becomes rich. He leads a very good life in a traditional way.

So why Gum seems “Get everything” without a specific goal in life, while Jenny(Or Dan) does not get the life goal they set even if they pay actual efforts for it and persists on it. That is a question to think about.