The film that makes me cry – Forrest Gump

Ian Ford: I remain dry-eyed at funerals. But now I’ve grown up and understand loss, grief and the film’s subtext of abuse, I’m overwhelmed by the wickedness of reality

I don’t cry at films, which is unsurprising as I don’t generally cry. I’ve attended funerals where I’m the only dry-eyed mourner, and I sometimes worry that failing to weep amounts to inhumanity. Thank goodness, then, for Forrest Gump, the one thing guaranteed to get me blubbing.

It superbly plays on emotion throughout, finely balancing comedy and tragedy, but the tears-inducing scene is specific. It occurs towards the end with Forrest (Tom Hanks) and a bedridden Jenny (Robin Wright) reunited at the Gump homestead.

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