Probably Unanswerable Questions
Forrest’s football career, abandoned followers, a trail of death, political meaning, deepfakes, and sinister scrapbook evidence
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- Forrest’s impossible return production should place him high in Heisman voting and in the NFL or AFL, despite illegal forward handoffs shown on kickoffs. — Bill Simmons
- When Forrest stops running in the desert, his many followers are abandoned far from shelter despite nearing the West Coast.
- Nearly everyone who intersects with Forrest dies, is maimed, or suffers politically, suggesting a darker trail behind his innocence. — Chris Ryan
- The National Review’s conservative ranking is challenged by a film that combines an applauded antiwar veteran with violence against a democratic socialist before the Black Panthers.
- The film’s insertion of Forrest into archive footage is proposed as a conceptual invention of deepfakes. — Mallory Rubin
- Jenny’s scrapbook includes an unexplained hometown investigation and a secret-lover tabloid denial, feeding a serial-killer or proto-Clinton dark-Gump reading. — Mallory Rubin