h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It is pretty difficult, if you have to see films in a dubbing. You don´t get the whole atmosphere and of course you miss out on a lot of jokes if you haven´t got the cultural background. So I am never quite sure if a film was good or realy good and most of the films I saw in German lost on their meaning for me (like watching "Quest for the holy grail by Monty Python which normaly is my line of film

I used to have to visit the cinema with a groop of children from a psychiatric ward I worked at some time in the early 90ies. Mostly they were meanialy intrested in what was running, it just was some time of fun they had away from the ward.

But watching "Forest Gump" was a very different experince for them, and for me having to work with these children: Of all the films we saw, this was the only film that had some kind of impact on the way the children felt about the person played by Hanks, and about themselves. I think they realy could relate to it, and well, the emotions were realy moved.

So "Forest Gump" will stay in my memory, allthough I haven´t seen it since. And the feeling the children had won´t be erased from my mind...