What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Movie Review

The film, “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” is about the complicated life of Gilbert who perseveres through out his life with family issues. This movie is an Academy Award and nominee of the Golden Globe 1994. The famous actors Johnny Depp and Leonardo Dicaprio played major roles in this movie. Gilbert, acted by Johnny Depp is a nice and kind young man who cares for his innocent mentally challenged younger brother Arnie who was acted out by Leonardo Dicaprio. Gilbert and the family also deal with their depressed and obese mother Bonnie who became like that after 17 years since her husband left. Gilbert struggles with his love life and works most of his time for the sake of the house he and his family inhabits and also for the family's financial benefits. Gilbert who watches most over Arney already has his hands full because at most time Arney can be hard to control. Donna dreams of seeing her son, Arney turn eighteen and she did right before she died a few seconds after going up a flight of stairs for the first time. At least before she passed away she allowed Gilbert who is her knight and shimmering armor to introduced her to a woman special in his life.This is important because she is insecure about her weight and paranoid about people thinking negatively about her. Overall in the end when she passed away, it was a sign to move on in life and to not be trapped in such a struggle so they burnt the house their father built as a symbol of freedom. I think the movie is mostly composed of subliminal or conceived meaning to it once you think about it. I think it should be more straight forward as it it were a drama or something.