ocean wrote:
can anyone explain this to me?...you know that Forrest Gump quote "life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get"...i never understood that...dont boxes of chocolate have pictures of the chocolate thats in the box?
Most that I've seen do, but not all... we should also note that the movie was made in 1994 and the book was written in 1986; maybe it wasn't common for it to be written on the boxes back then? (I was born in the nineties and aren't American, so I don't know.) It could also refer to one not knowing if they
like the taste, as in you never know if it's a tasty chocolate or not, before you eat it, even if it looks good and you know what it's supposed to taste like.