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"Forrest Gump Suite" - Alan Silvestri


I woke up this morning to a very familiar piano medley. More memories came flooding back. I seriously baffle me sometimes with such thoughts. It was the early 90's and I just remember watching this movie in a small, run-down old theater, feeling as if I was the only one in the room. From beginning to end, it grabbed me and wouldn't let go; filled with so much story I didn't even know what to do with myself after I watched it. It consumed me because it took me through a journey, not only through the characters but also through song. I know thinking back now some may argue that it shouldn't have won an Oscar. And I know that even such critics like those on Rotten Tomatoes will rate it simply as "average." Being somewhat of a critic myself I know how to nit-pick every last detail until I pretty much ruin it. Yet, I can't say the same for this. It moved me; it moves me still. That alone makes me stand by it.

It deserved to win.

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