And they both love classic soul r&b from the late '60s and '70s
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Forrest lives a charmed life and those bullets don't hit Vincent and Jules and maybe, just maybe, God was looking out for them.
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Nah my dude Pulp Fiction was about each of those stories having one isolated, shining moment of grace in an otherwise brutal world
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Forrest Gump's life is blanketed with grace, from beginning to end
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Forrest would objectively be an asshole to not believe God's got his back whereas we're meant to sympathize with Jules in PF
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Which is why Forrest Gump is by comparison such a conservative-minded movie and in fact beloved by conservatives
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That they do, but I think that reading ignores how badly traditional institutions fucked over Jenny
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That's fair to an extent. I read the movie's stance as kind of wushu-washy "Isn't history a shame" conservative
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You know, obviously being anti-KKK *of course* but still having the protagonist being named after the KKK's founder as vague irony
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The movie's pretty nasty toward the Left too and treats Jenny as fucked over by counterculture as much as traditional culture
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With a general message that politics doesn't matter, innate character does
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(Which isn't 100% unjustified, cf. Orwell's essay on Dickens, but enh)
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