| | Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: Robert Zemeckis |
 | | He is the director of the most striking and disturbing fantasy film of the 1990s, and I am most certainly not talking about Death Becomes Her or Contact. |
 | | Rather, the film in question is Forrest Gump, that bizarre alternate history of postwar America suggesting that we could have placidly coped with the turmoils of the 1960s and 1970s if only we all had been... |
 | | Meanwhile, Zemeckis blithely toodles along as if he were making the feel-good movie of 1994, the heartwarming saga of a simple but saintly soul who triumphs over the system in the face of overwhelming odds. |
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