Although This is an incredible film, I absolutely hate the idea of Lt. Dan. I think they writers were extremely lazy when they added him to the movie. He is not needed to improve this movie whatsoever. In my opinion, the movie is drawn away from the big picture because he gets in the way. Nobody wants to see Dan and they should have left him in Vietnam. The best quality of this film is the spectacular metaphors that add to the simple minded Forrest. Forrest doesn't think too deeply about anything so his mother had to give him these simple saying that would help him understand what was going on around him. This movie contains many one- liners hat really help to make this movie.