I remember the first three times that I watched this movie, I really enjoyed it. Then I watched it with a classroom full of students and noticed when everyone was laughing. Everyone was laughing at the same joke over and over again. Hey look, it's a retard doing retarded things; let's laugh at him. Oh, and to make people not feel guilty about it we'll make Forrest's life materially comfortable. That this movie won oscars is an affront to the shreds of decency that the Oscars have. That this movie was passed off as touching is wrong. I loved Dumb and Dumber, and I see why I am not offended by it: it does not feign depth or decency. Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks may have fooled us in 1994, but it's 7 years later, and still people don't see this movie for what it is.