1. I disagree with the statement that the film was 'conservative' in nature. Many issues are discussed that disputed conservatism at that time. For example, Elvis Pressley and his music, The Beatles and their music, the war in Vietnam, drugs, alcohol, Water Gate, the Black Panthers, the list goes on and on. I was just curious as to how they thought this movie as "aggressively conservative."
2. The way they describe the movie is that Forrest Gump emulates the good American by reitterating the ideas of Christianity and consumerism and that adiences relate to that. To me however, he seems too dumb to question anything and assumes that what he is told is how things are supposed to be. In no way do I see him as revolutionary conformist, he's just a loveable idiot who did what he was told.
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