❤️BIBLE VERSES OF THE DAY❤️ Romans 10:9-10 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Ok, here's the deal -- Jenny never set out to hurt Forrest in anything she ever did, all she ever did is hurt herself. She never manipulated him for her gain. She was always honest with him. Have we walked a mile in her shoes? In its simplest form what we see is unconditional love from Forrest. That's the message of the movie. In a more complicated form, what we often see from Reactors is a complete lack of compassion for a very troubled girl who can't seem to get out of her own way. In layman's terms, she had to grow up, and Lil Forrest was the event in her life that propelled her. This is a normal curve in MANY people's lives. Even without Christ.
To be a little girl and be sexually assaulted by the one male in her life that should have been her guardian angel caused her to feel worthless and not loveable. Her rejecting Forrest was her way of trying to protect him from making a mistake by getting too close to her. Extremely sad, for many children out there.
@Move_I_Got_This incorrect she didn’t have anybody else to give Forrest Jr too so she finally told him. If she didn’t have that disease, she definitely wouldn’t have told Forrest about him because she wouldn’t want a special needs around her son. Jenny is the worst character in movie history so don’t try to defend her. Yes she did deserve redemption but she doesn’t deserve forgiveness
@@jonlate4581 Great comment. She was severally abused, I've been bullyed. People never should condamned the actions from a movie character when emotions are involved.
The best character arc in the movie is actually LT Dan. He is a broken man after the war, not just physically but emotionally and psychology. Has PTSD and sees no point to living. He could easily let that spiral the rest of his life into despair, drugs, abusing others etc. But he actually accepts Forrest's help, and through his friendship, finds redemption.
I still and always felt Jenny loved Forrest but she was too damaged by her father molesting her and thought she wasn't worthy of Forrest's love so she kept him at a distance she also knew how pure Forrest was and didn't want to ruin him with all her issues. I think that is why she apologized to him because she knew she was probably hurting him but that was the only way she thought she could protect him from her issues and now that she was dying she didn't have to try and keep him at a distance anymore she would be gone soon.
I didn’t really appreciate the complexities of this movie when I was younger. It has grown on me so much as I understand more. The problem is that even today people value intelligence over character (kindness etc) and it’s a shame because Forrest would be the best friend you could have.
I was going to say almost exactly the same thing. She did love him and that is why she stayed away. She lost her mom young, had an abusive feather an then abusive relationships not by choice exactly. you kinda fall into a pattern and its not an easy cycle to break. She was trying to protect Forrest like Frank said and I'm guessing also felt unworthy of his pure love never having experiencing it before. They grew up in the same place but Forrest's mom showed him how to love and act. Jenny was not as lucky.
And by law Forrest would wind up with him either way after she passed. It's also odd that the people don't understand the laws of attraction - Forrest just may not have been her type. But the love was always there, no doubt.
Thought she was also like every other character who saw Forrest as incognitive, being the 60s-70s. Her self reflection on her affection for him in a sexual way disgusted her as thinking she was the same as her father taking advantage of her as a child; him being a man-child. It revolted her.
Jenny's life is a juxtaposition to Forrest Gump's life. They both go through troubling childhood experiences. However, Forrest had the benefit of an awesome parent to guide them through the difficulties of life. Whereas Jenny never had that and she was left to search for that comfort as a broken person. Amazing writing to give the story an anchor as well as a propelling force to drive Forrest Gump forward in life.
Aside from a pretty fair portrayal of an abuse victim not feeling worthy of affection it also portrays a fairly common aspect of the interaction of people in another way. Namely the way each side may very differently interpret the kind of relationship they have. Forrest wanted a romantic relationship and Jenny did not. That isn't leading anyone on, Jenny clearly loved Forrest, just not romantically. I would argue that she never really cared for him that way. She was just worn down by life and saw Forrest as a safe choice, and she did love him on some level. I think often as an audience we want characters to fall in love with each romantically, but especially in real life both sides often do not feel the same kind of love for each other. Attacking the other side for not feeling the same is not really fair or honest about the depth of relationships people can actually with each other.
@@ididthisonpulpous6526 Actually I feel that she loved him first, when they were younger she was the one always clinging to him, she was the one sneaking out to get to him etc but he didn't realize what it meant, when they grew older the role were reversed.
@@Deorman Romantic love and Platonic love are two different things. I am certain that she loved Forrest since they were children. Romantically no. I think part of what the movie illustrates is her confusion about what Romantic Love is and makes her statements to Forrest about not understanding rather ironic, but I do think it is clear she was attracted to Forrest nor was she interested in pursuing a romantic relationship until she had re-evaluated what long term romantic partner should be for her.
Yeah, they were from the same place, but Forrest had a loving mother who did everything for him and Jenny was abused by her father. I like your attitude of "you choose your own path" but sometimes life kicks you sooo hard that you can lose your way. And i think Jenny did have a change of heart and not just used Forrest.
12:53: As I noted on another Forrst Gump reaction, the reason those letters came back is that Forrest sent them to the only address of Jenny's he knows, her fathers place. Which is the only place Jenny would never set foot in again.
The big difference between Jenny and Forest was not their intellect but their home life. Forest had a loving mother who encouraged him and taught him to never doubt his abilities. Jenny had a father who sexually and physically abused her and such trauma can absolutely destroy some people for life. She loved Forest but did not believe that she was worthy to be loved herself. The people who keep criticising her, who keep saying that she is leading Forest on or blame her for her behaviour, you really need to start looking into what damage sexual childhood trauma can do to people. Her entire feeling of self worth was damaged and if your entire foundation is violence, how can you make good choices. Putting everything on her shoulders is just wrong. She is the most tragic character in this movie. And I love Forest for loving her.
When Forrest gets cut off at the D.C. rally he uttered some of the most poignant pieces of dialogue never heard. In an interview the director Robert Zemeckis let viewers know what was said. "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mamas without any legs. In Vietnam, your best good friend could get shot. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that."
Maybe the best line in the movie. In a way, that's Forrest saying he knows full well what he is. In another way, this is Forrest saying he already care for the child.
Not enough gets said about how Jenny probably felt uneasy about getting into a relationship with an intellectually disabled man. Imagine if their genders were reversed and a man of typical intelligence was pursuing a relationship with an intellectually disabled woman...most people would agree that this could be viewed as an exploitative and inappropriate relationship. Jenny probably felt guilty about that on top of feeling unworthy of Forrest's pure love (because of her severe childhood sexual abuse and other traumas). Jenny deserves so much compassion and all of Forrest Snr and Forrest Jnr's love. Forrest, of course, deserves all the love too. But no matter how 'good' or deserving someone is (like Forrest), that still doesn't make one entitled to be in a relationship with someone.
18:21 Ms, Californiablend DOESN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE KIND OF ABUSE JENNY SUFFERED AS A LITTLE GIRL AND THE IMPACT IT HAS ON PEOPLES' LIVES. It's extremely difficult to be healed from that kind of childhood hell or to make good choices in life, especially if you don't have proper help, which Jenny didn't. Jenny had been raped repeatedly by her father as a child, and beaten judging by her injuries and torn clothes, Jenny's mother died, possibly killed by her father as well, we don't know, and though they mention that Jenny had sisters, they too are absent from the story, like her mother. Jenny was a severely damaged person, and that she seems to have gotten it together at the end of her life as they show is pretty unlikely in reality with the amount of damage she suffered as a child. Most people who have childhoods as bad as Jenny's never recover.
As for Jenny, being an abused child from a toxic, broken home can have devastating, long lasting effects on a child's life, all the way through adulthood. Which accounts for the bad path she took through her early adulthood. She eventually figured things out. A bit too late, but she got there. Such a moving film.
They were not of the same cloth. He had loving mom, she had a sexually abusing dad. She was broken and knew she wasn't worthy of forest. My heart breaks for Jenny
She obviously thought he was special needs and that’s why she never pursued anything more out of their relationship. It’s not because she thought she wasn’t worthy it’s because she doesn’t want to love someone like Forrest. Her love for him was only a friendship love
@Graeme Roberts I agree with what you said 100%. This is one of my absolute favorite movies. And at first my reaction to Jenny was the same as the one you replied to. But then you realize that Jenny was utterly broken from her childhood and would run from every sort of problem and really never had any commitment to anything. She never showed emotional attachment to anything in the movie. Except Forrest. You see her almost break when he tells her she's going to Vietnam. And then later for little Forrest.
It's not Jenny's fault - she grew up abused and molested at the hands of her father. The man who was SUPPOSED to love her and care for her. Her self-destructive behaviour is fallout from that abuse. So's her inability to believe that she could be worthy of the kind of love that Forrest offers.
While that is obviously a horrible thing to happen to a child, she still had a choice in life and so yes, everything that happened to her as an adult is her fault. Many people grow up under the same circumstances, move past it and become productive and happy. People need to take more personal responsibility and stop blaming their problems on others.
yeah I'm so tired of UA-cam reactors blaming or hating on Jenny... she was doing the best that she possibly could. Choice is an illusion. Being a good person who never hurts or lets down anyone is a luxury only the ultra privileged have. The rest of us are dealing with a lot of shit that most people have no idea about and just trying to do the best we can.
When she tells Forrest you don't know what love is she said it because to her love is mixed up with pain, abuse and trauma and she also believed she wasn't worthy of Forrest and would taint his pureness.
11:32 Carrying people while running is a big part of army training, but it's also during that training that my dad injured his leg and was discharged. But if you ask any soldier ever, he DID have to go back. My dad told me, on the battlefield the thing that takes way way WAY more precedent than killing the enemy or staying alive yourself is making sure your fellow soldiers stay alive "Protect the guy next to you and make sure he gets home, because he's the only one making sure you get home" that's also why Forrest got the Medal of Honor. Even though you might've killed people in the situation that earned you that medal, you ultimately get it because your actions saved lives
I dont think jenny was lieing when she said she loves forrest, she doid love him but was afraid that if she stayed with him she would hurt him, or vice versa, and i also think she thought she didnt deserve him, also, jenny didnt keep his son from him on purpose, no one seems to realize this takes place long before cell phones, and forrest was running for over 3 years without really stopping, there was no real way for her to contact him.
True and she did write him letter, that he just received.. who knows how long she wrote that letter you know? Since he was running for 3 years and had no form of contact until he got home.
Ridiculous. A new mother who just had a baby and who was concerned about their future would move heaven and earth to contact the father- and not write a single letter over the course of years! Hahahaha
Loved the review. Forrest was raised in a loving home. Jenny was sexually abused by her father. They definitely weren't cut from the same cloth. I can't even imagine. Jenny definitely loved Forrest. She didn't think she was good enough for him. She said he didn't know what love was, but it was her because it was so messed up from the very beginning. She figured it out at the end.
Like Forrest, I've had the challenge of loving a woman that went thru far more abuse than Jenny. Thankfully we both believe in a God that has helped us through the tough times; giving me the patience when I wanted to give up, and helping my wife to forgive and heal. We now have six kids (one who's named Jenny) and seven grandkids. The biggest key is to not just call God Lord, but to treat Him as LORD, realizing that He has a much better life for us than what we can create. Even Jesus had to do His Father's will in order to do what He did. John 5:19
When someone is abused, they often believe that they are unworthy of being with a 'regular', person. Jenny wanted to keep her relationship apart from the rest of her life. Her relationship with Forrest was her 'safe place' where she returned to feel safe. But she didn't feel good enough for Forrest. Also, Forrest was out running for over three years (unreachable), and then he was at home for a while, when Jenny's letter got to him. Jenny was protecting Forrest, by keeping away from him, while she was suffering from the results of her child abuse from her father. Forrest was her safe place, and she protected him from the ugly life she had. Jenny loved and respected Forrest. And she 'mothered' him by her keeping him innocent and uninvolved in her reality. She was a good friend to him.
Gary Sinise the actor who played Lieutenant Dan went on to be a leader in the movement to support seriously disabled veterans look up The Lieutenant Dan Band and the Gary Sinise Foundation
Jenny's problem is how she was used and abused, 1st by her father, then by every man she met except Forrest. She felt like she was worth nothing and was never going to be worth anything and would just bring Forrest down with her , she had no idea how to love anyone. It wasn't until she had little Forrest and was given one pure good thing in her life she was able to find her self worth to a point and then accepted that she loved Forrest and always had and it was OK to love someone and not expect them to hurt her. It is very complicated and you get snippets of it in every scene she is in. The first thing you see is all she knows how to do is run from anything as she keeps telling Forrest to do , she doesn't know any other way to deal with the pain and bad and it takes her so long to finally figure it out ( unfortunately this is true for too many and some never get to figure anything out) , Jenny deserves pity not hate , she didn't know how to love until it was too late but she gave Forrest 2 gifts before she left, true love and what it feels like , and someone to love and give his life meaning in Forrest Jr. . Forrest might not be a genius but I would lay any bet he is an incredibly loving and good father. 7
She was used and abused by those other guys because she gravitated toward guys who would treat her that way. This is unfortunately an issue for all young women, but especially abuse victims. The only realistic part of the movie.
What most people don't get about Jenny is that her spirit was way more broken and bent than Forrest's spine ever was. The two of them meeting on the bus for the first time and Forrest thinking she was an angel, well Jenny felt his purity and innocence even more. Because hers was lost to her lowlife scuzbucket of a father. JENNY LOVED FORREST WAY MORE THAN FORREST LOVED HER. but. She never felt good enough for him because, in her mind she wasn't pure like him. She loved him so much, that she protected Forrest from his one and only weakness. Herself. And years and years later, she finally figured out it wasn't her fault. Years after that, she found it in herself to forgive herself for not being innocent because that was never her fault. It was only then that she could look Forrest in the eye and feel worthy of his love and reciprocate it. That is how absolutely fucking damaging abuse is. It can completely fuck up multiple lives for decades and even generations. That's the true story of Forrest Gump. Don't ever judge Jenny. She was just a sweet little abused girl that no one but Forrest could see how soft and pure her heart was. Pure enough to deny herself of a life and a love she truly deserved and allow Forrest to blossom simply because she had to straighten it all out in her mind, heart, soul and body first, before giving herself to him. She suffered for years to protect Forrest from her. She gave up her own life so that Forrest wasn't held back in his by all of her demons. She allowed Forrest to live a good life by sacrificing her own. That is love in its purest form. Nice reaction. Cheers!
Yes she loved Forrest so much that she not only wouldn’t allow him Into her or HIS son’s life but didn’t even tell him that he had a son for years.. that is until she got sick and needed him.
I agree with all of that except the part about Jenny loving Forrest more than he loved her. She obviously loved him but love is literally the only thing Forrest truly understands. He loved her as much as humanly possible.
Yea I don't get how a lot of reactors don't get that jenny was abused n thus that's how she ended up spiraling with all those bad choices. She even contemplates suicide like what twice in the film? 🤦🤷😂
Yeah, exactly. While Jenny and Forrest did come from the same place, they are not cut from the same cloth. She had a VERY different and abusive home life with her father, while Forrest had a loving and supportive mother, which is why their paths were completely different and skewed.
No we get it, but there’s a limit and a line which she crossed after having Forrest’s son and then keeping him from him for years until she needed him.
@@Hunter-yj6zb She had him while Forrest was running across the country. This was before cellphones and internet, she had no way of contacting him. It's not like she could quit her job and just take off trying to find him.
The he couldn’t be located argument is such nonsense. A mentally handicapped man is declared missing and authorities go searching, oh whoops there he is on the news. Plus the writers would have scenes showing her trying to locate him. No she sends 1 letter over YEARS after she knew she was sick. That’s it, and it leaves open her character using him when she had to.
YOu gotta give Jenny some slack. She was working out her problems in the only way she knew how, and that was to run away. It took her a lifetime to come to terms with the fact that the peace and safety she desired would not be found in various parts of the world but in her hometown, with her childhood friend and first love. We all have to experience journeys in our lives, we hope we can get to where we want but we don't know if what we are doing is gonna get us there. JEnny represents that emptiness that needs to be filled in all of us. Especially those that have suffered from abuse.
Forrest Gump is the perfect Taoist character. He's simple, just being his natural self, isn't very bright, but he's the steady one, while the world around him changes and is lost. Forrest doesn't plan, pontificate, scheme, he just is...and thus he overcomes. One of the most powerful moments in the movie is when he tells Jenny that he loves her and she tells him: "Forrest you don't know what love is." The truth being that Forrest has always known what love is and it's Jenny, the higher IQ one, who doesn't really know.
Jenny was emotionally damaged. She would have had difficulty recognising love, mistaking it for the type of emotional manipulation that was her early representation of love. It wasn't really love that her father showed her and it wasn't really love from any boyfriend represented in the story, except Forrest who unfortunately bore the consequences of Jenny's childhood trauma. I'm afraid it is like this for so many adults suffering CPTSD and the like. They can often be resistant to true emotional attachment which makes them difficult to get to know personally. How can you love if you don't know love?
2001, Alien, Aliens, Terminator, Terminator 2.. Of these properties, which gender was the protagonist? Now insert your hate. Take it and make it your life. Now this goes to feminists as well. Unless you preform, I don't care
I did my final college paper in my Moral and Social Philosophy class on Forrest Gump. Your reaction narration is identical to my paper. I got an A and so do you. Great reaction.
The theme of running is woven throughout this film. Forest runs away from bullies at an early age and eventually finds running to be something he’s good at. But Jenny is the one who does the most running. She’s running away from her childhood trying to find peace in very destructive ways. Forest was part of her childhood and even though she loved him, it probably hurt to be around him because it was like being home again. It wasn’t until faced with her own mortality that she knew running wasn’t working. In our darkest moments we find strength.
i don't know how they could have made it more obvious how broken Jenny was. Running away from the good, always putting herself in a position to get hurt. Drugs and abuse, just like she learned from her daddy. Of course she loved Forest. That's why she ran.
Every single time I see a woman react to this, they have a big hump on about Jenny. "She treats him like trash. He deserves better." And every guy is like, "Awwwww. They're finally together." Weird.
I agree with you a lot of people suffer from their upbringing but what you said is 100% true. You are your CHOICES, or in forrests words “stupid is as stupid DOES”. And you are accountable for those choices no matter what. Some people just have a hard time accepting she ruined her own life bc she was a victim as a child.
Hello, CB. Nice react to this classic. But it always amazes me how little sympathy Jenny gets, even from women. Jenny was sexually ABUSED as a CHILD. This caused her severe TRAUMA. It's all well and good to talk about choosing this and that, but it's easier said than done under certain circumstances. It takes a long time to understand and sort out trauma like that. And she eventually does. Also, she cared very much for Forrest. But she was trying to run away, like she told Forrest to do. She was trying to run away from her pain and herself. She didn't feel worthy of Forrest's love and caring. Anyway, enjoyed the react. Look forward to more. Take care. Regards from Illinois!
Nope. Jenny gets a pass only up to when she has Forrest’s son. What she does then is not forgivable. I think that is a major flaw in the movie that ruins the Jenny character.
I think it’s really really hard for people who haven’t suffered abuse to forget one key factor: Victims of abuse are brainwashed to believe they DESERVE it. That is their reality. “He wouldn’t have hit me if I’d worn the right dress,” “He wouldn’t be touching me that way if I didn’t provoke him,” “I’m lucky to have her, because who else would put up with me?” Jenny’s abuse was probably from the day she was born in some fashion or other. She can’t fathom that it’s not her fault, so for most of the film, she’s afraid to hurt Forest because she sees herself as “bad.” That’s why she runs after their night together. Imagine knowing only misery your whole life and thinking you deserved that, then tasting happiness and feeling like you are stealing it because you aren’t worthy. Jenny had to get herself past that for the sake of her son, and once she did, she contacted Forest. Not wholly excusable, but still pitiable.
Oh, also, NOBODY talked about abuse back then. Hell, I grew up in the 80s and 90s and no one talked about it then. It was controversial when the police taught us about “bad touch” in like third grade. Parents were furious that we were discussing “that stuff” in school. There was no Reddit to say, “Girl, run!” There was little to no representation in media for trauma. There was also not as much understanding of the psychological effects of trauma on people. Even war vets with PTSD were told to get over it. So Jenny had no support and no other voice outside of what her abusers told her.
Jenny is a testament to how unresolved childhood trauma can mess you up in adulthood. She wanted to fly away (escape), and she kept trying to do that by running from pillar to post over the years. She didn't think she was good enough for Forrest after her tarnished past. She finally made the decision to get her shit together after that faithful night (which is why she told the cab driver: "I'm not running"), and I think the pregnancy helped her with that... she focused all her energy on being a good mum, and giving her child a better childhood than she had. I believe she didn't want to reach out to him until she deemed herself "worthy"... plus he was running for 3 years of that child's life.
Jenny, made bad choices. Whenever Jenny said Run Forrest Run! Or when she told him to just run away Forrest, whenever he was in trouble, in Vietnam. It was just her own trauma, from when she was sexually abused by her own father to just run away into the corn field. She was just a very damaged, and hurt human, that was projecting her own pain onto Forrest. Forrest was the only person that could carry that pain for Jenny, and love her despite Jenny pushing him away. How does no one see this? They only see Jenny as a manipulative, heartless person, when in fact this is a story of Forrest and Jenny and how Forrest helped Jenny come out of the trauma she went through as a child? This a love story between Forrest and Jenny, in the end. I'm pretty sure it's evident that Jenny loves Forrest, by the fact that she wants to spare him, by the line when she says, "You don't want to marry me." She was acknowledging that Forrest was too good for her and that he deserved better than her, and she came back to him in that time. Because Forrest always felt like home to her and she knew that he would never hurt her. Same as if we were to come to Jesus, we have a home and no matter how much we hurt him we will always be welcome, despite our past traumas or how much we use him.
Jenny made bad choices and we see what could have been but a kid needs a loving mother and father.... Jenny didnt get that and so she was broken inside. This is probably a very accurate portrayal of many who come from broken homes and abuse. Even a loving man like Forrest cant fix it... people need JESUS to heal all that.
I’ve seen lots of folks react to this one….but have never laughed so hard in my life, like I did at this one….when you said…you telling me Forest was at the moon landing?! Lost it. Comedy gold. How funny would that have been. He’s looking out the window. Lolololol. That should be a skit somewhere. You’re awesome.
25:31 "Why did she wait so long??" I'm no Jenny fan myself, but what did you expect her to do? Chase after him while he was running across the country for all those years?
@@Hunter-yj6zb "Oh look, he's in Colorado today... let me get my jogging shoes on and try to catch up with him." Or maybe she should have gotten into her car and chased him... during the gas shortage. I guess stupid really IS as stupid does with some people. 🙄
@@jscan4442Correct, she was a waitress and a single mother raising a child. Yeah, it's not like she could just leave her job, grab her young son, and go on a cross country quest.
Yes stupid is a good word here. A mentally handicapped man goes missing but a mother with a newborn can never contact the authorities to find him, oh no that could never happen. No, instead she writes a single letter over a span of years and moves on. BS
When Jenny tells Forrest he's the dad and it LITERALLY takes him back and he says "Is he smart or is he-..." That part just BREAKS me. Easily my favorite scene in the history of film. Tom Hanks is so fantastic. And the fact that what he's really asking is "Do people think he's smart or do they think hes like me because hes different" and the fact that thats his FIRST concern. Because he knows if hes seen as different he will have a rough time growing up like he did. Just such a great moment.
The two choices between Jenny and Forrest were not of their own making. Jenny had, at the surface, all the advantages and Forrest the disadvantages. But, their support network was different. Forrest had a mother who always had his back the rest of the world saw him as different, and she had a sadistic father who did whatever to her, but they did not see her front. The same with lieutenant Dan, Who was disabled in the war, and he had to find his place in the world. All of them had scars they had to deal with, and they did. Jenny, who had the biggest scars, did overcome, although not a second too late.
I am so very glad, someone who has reacted to this film finally gets the historical references and events, very refreshing, thank you so much, hope all is well in California..😁😁😁
0:04 is my ONLY gripe about this movie. The author kinda got the shaft. The movie adaptation is much different, but still. Just my opinion, it's the one blemish on this masterpiece.
You should react to Apollo 13. Happens around the same time period and has both Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, and Geoffrey Blake (Wesley, the one who slapped Jenny), in it. Both movies were released within a year of each other.
I had to go on business trip to New Orleans and I went out of my way just so I could go have a shrimp lunch in Bayou Le Batre Alabama. Best part of the trip and the shrimp were amazing.
Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise made three films together, all with very different directors and very different stories. All three films are fantastic, and now you've watched two: The Green Mile and Forrest Gump. Might as well watch the third: Apollo 13.
As many people pointed out, your complete lack of sympathy for Jenny was surprising, she had a very traumatized childhood from abusive father, it hurt so deep that she basically gave up hope, without any clear direction, she ended up drifting along with all kinds of "friends" during that turbulent period, a refection of that particular beat generation. At the worse moment, she almost killed herself. Once back to Forrest, she must had such a strong guilt feeling, and low self esteem, probably that's why she left, not to escape, but to "fix/clean herself" first, to become a better person. Judging by the latest uniform, she seemed work as a waitress of some kind, basically a proper job, couldn't be far away from pervious drug addict, she could now face Forrest without any quilt, hence no more escaping. Comparing to Forest's simple belief and unbelievable good luck, Jenny's story is more real, they complement each other beautifully.
Jenny loved Forrest, but hated herself. She didn't think she was too good for Forrest, she thought he was too good for her. She needed to work through that before she could go back to him. Unfortunately, it took her too long and she died too soon. It hurts me to always hear people say that about her because she was just messed up. I have seen this movie about a hundred times, and I absolutely love it.
She was so pissed at Jenny that she let it blind her to the reality of the situation. By the end she was getting upset at Jenny for getting sick and even worse for dying LMAO, it was so strange to watch. She should look at neurobiologist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky's work to gain a little empathy for Jenny and the "choices" she made.
I think every reaction to this movie that I've watched, everybody seems to forget that Jenny was being molested by her father from a very early age. I can't think of anything that could fuck a person up more than that.
Jenny goes down the only path she knew growing up, it took her a long time to work through all that trauma from childhood that Forrest never had or had a support system and unshakable love from his mother. And it's too easy "why are you doing that" if you didn't have to go through it.
She was assaulted sexually by her father and then got on drugs. She came back to Alabama when she quit drugs. She had to do that for herself. Got aides ad died.
So many reactors misunderstand Jenny and don’t see that the way people talk about them is a huge part of why so many women, and men, don’t come forward and inform people that they are being abused. Instead, if they are killed or don’t kill themselves, they go through life w/ a heavy cross on their back and an albatross on their necks and people just talk trash about them and their inabilities to commit in relationships or maintain a steady and reliable group of genuine friends instead of others they know will abuse them or use them.😢😔😭
I love watching your reactions I just want to know what planet you are from because you are intelligent and well informed. Most people your age couldn't tell us how many states are in the union.
Jenny always cared about Forrest - a lot. She felt she was too broken, not worthy of his love, and SHE was the one that didn't know what real love is. Her abusive father kept her for knowing what true love is. Like many sexually abused children she only knew to show love through the use of her body. The only thing that was ingrained in her head to was to run (fly away) from her problems like she did from her father. It is what she taught Forrest to do and that is what she did. It explains why she said "you don't want to marry me" and it is why her answer to "Where are you running off to" was profound. She said "I am not running" meaning she was going to straighten out her life so she felt worthy of Forrest's love. And when that finally happened, her past caught had up with her and she had contracted Aids.
Wow. Lot's of people defending Jenny (and getting on your case for having an opinion) while i was typing my response. Jenny is a complex character and you certainly have the right to see her behavior any way you choose. That is part of what makes this movie so good. It makes a person think while entertaining you the whole way through.
Nope. If she hadn’t got sick she never would have contacted Forrest or allowed him in HIS son’s life. This is a flaw in the movie that ruins Jenny’s character.
My point is the Jenny character would have been better served by the writers if she had not cut Forrest out of his son’s life for years and contacted him before she knew she was sick. Also the whole running part of the movie was frankly dumb- where was he eating, shitting, sleeping for almost 4 years? And all Jenny had to do was file a missing person’s report (adding he’s a mentally handicapped man and father of her newborn) and the authorities would have found him. Hell once she had the baby she could have moved back into his house, while they searched for him, and had help from all his neighbors (maybe even gasp get a waitress job there). They way the movie is written there is doubt at the end of Jenny’s motives; that she contacted him only because she had to, and I would made sure that the audience knew that was not what she was doing.
Parents are everything. Forrest had a supporting, encouraging mom that loved him with all her heart, Jenny on the other hand had an alcoholic, violent, sexually and physically abusive father. Children are like sponges. It is no accident that Forrest thought he could do anything and did while Jenny was beaten down, demoralized and full of doubt, picking abusive men like her father was. She knew no better but sort of finally corrected herself in the end when she had a responsibility in her life, her son.
The Illness brought her life into focus because she could never let go of her pain and she never felt she deserved happiness and knowing her life was short the reality of that and obviously she got help as a nurse. And while yes she might never have reconnected it wasn't for lack of not caring or loving Forest but her own guilt of knowing how she had treated him. She now had no choice and couldn't trust the family she didn't have to look after Forest Jr. So, lest he who is without sin cast the first stone. The hardest thing or to be like Jesus is to realize there is only forgiveness no matter your sins in his eyes.
Forrest was always Jennies true rock. The one pristine person in her life, that she knew would always have her back. She was behaving like that towards him, cause she was protecting him from herself. Probably without even realising that thats what she did. Rest assured … Jennie loved him. But she knew he was one of Gods true spirits. And she didn’t think her worthy of him.
I totally disagree about Jenny, she wasn't his downfall nor unredeemable. They did not come from the same cloth, as she grew up with sexually abused by her father, while Forrest had a loving home and a stable relationship with his mother. Jenny was pretty much broken by her childhood and it cause her to live a destructive life and her relationships with men. She loved Forrest as her best friend but wasn't in love with him as he was the only stable male relationship she had. She was a good friend to him growing up as she accepted him for who he was and never put him down like the others. She also felt she wasn't good enough for his love which is why she kept pushing him away. Besides, she did had her own life to lead and was never his girlfriend so she really didn't do anything wrong in going away except for the last time when she left without telling him after they had sex. She also never took advantage of him and never cared about his wealth. She came back the first time, because I think she was lonely as was he and wanted escape her terrible life she was living and being around Forrest and back at home was the only good thing she had but she felt she wasn't good for him which is why she left but I think she had sex with him just to give him something special before she went. Jenny just seemed to runaway a lot from her situations in a way she was running away from herself. I think she didn't tell Forrest about her son sooner was because she didn't want him to feel obligated after leaving him the way she did. She told him the truth because she wanted to her son to have a loving family before she died and also give Forrest what he wanted a marriage and to get to know his son because she knew he would take good care of him when she's gone. I think some viewers get Jenny wrong, she's not the bad person who used Forrest but a damaged person who needed to get her own life together.
I think this movie is really interesting in how it has three different philosophies for life in different characters. 1) Forrest is flowing with the wind like the feather in the beginning/end of the movie, taking life as it comes to him. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get. 2) Lieutenant Dan believes in destiny. We are not just flowing randomly through life, but we are destined for things. 3) Jenny, being abused as a child by her own father is running away from troubles. Whenever she is scared, she runs away as she also advices Forrest to do. Due to her abuse, she has very low self-esteem. She believes she does not deserve the kind of love and care Forrest provides, but seeks men that abuse her. This is one of the movies one can watch a million times.
18:26 I feel like somehow you're missing the fact that Jenny's father was abusing her sexually through most of her adolescence. That's why all her adult choices are badly chosen.
Jenny was physically, sexually & emotionally abused by her own father. A man who was supposed to protect, love & care for her upbringing. This shattered Jenny's self-worth. She never thought she was good enough or deserving of love, especially from a such an honest, caring person as Forrest, who grew up with a devoted, supportive mother. It took Jenny a long time to heal and at that time there was a great stigma in getting help or therapy. Still today there is victim-blaming & disbelief of their trauma. After she had little Forrest, she finally realized she had a life worth living. She never asked Forrest for anything, she worked as waitress & scraped by. Jenny may have been running away from herself all this time, but she never lied to Forrest. Broken people deserve love, even when they aren't able to give it.
Yoooooooooo. One of the best movies ever. You have to do a Tom Hanks month… You already did Saving Private Ryan and The Green Mile so check out Catch me if you Can, Castaways, Road to Perdition, Sully, You Got Mail, and Apollo 13 if you have never watch them. Great movies.
it is so sad to see the complete lack of empathy for Jenny in this reaction, and to be so judgmental. I recall watching the movie when it first came out, and people seemed to have more understanding of why Jenny's made her choices. Hate to see people becoming less sensitive to other's challenges and the results of abuse.
i agree. Ive never been abused, but even I could see the cause and effect on her behavior. I'd say Jenny had a TREMENDOUS story arc: it seemed she pulled her life together with minimal resources. Im assuming she couldnt afford therapy on a hitchiker's salary or a waitress's salary...she had to do it herself. To be honest, I was taken aback by the lack of empathy. Really taken aback. I was subscribed, but unsubscribed a few seconds later. Such a shame: she seemed like a positive person, but to not have reaction to Lt. Dan losing his legs, to Lt Dan thanking forrest for saving his life, momma's death...im not sure what i'm looking at. I suppose I need to get used to a general lack of empathy as it seems there's less and less in the everyday person.
being a victim of abuse doesn't excuse being an asshole. by that logic, all narcissists and sociopaths in the world are justified to do what they want bc of their trauma.
One of my favorite movies ❤️❤️❤️ You really can't compare Jenny and Forrest. Forrest grew up with a loving mom. Jenny's dad sexually abused her. Her choices in life was obviously the wrong ones, but it was her way to cope. I think when she said Forrest didn't know what love is she meant herself. And she did NOT take advantage of him. She had her son when he Forrest was out running so she couldn't tell him. She turned her life around and got a job and stopped taking drugs because of her son and she wanted her son to have a dad so that's why she reached out. Sorry, but I'm always gonna defend Jenny. I love her.
In some ways Jenny was fortunate. Even though she made bad choices as a young woman, she still left a beautiful intelligent child, turned her life around, and made sure Forest and their son would be together. Little Forest was left in the best hands possible, before his mother moved on. My childhood sweetheart died at the hands of her father. He killed her two brothers, baby sister, and her mother too. Also killed himself. May 17, 1969.
Jenny was sexually abused and had no family support where as Forrest had the love of his mother....they came from the same place but were different in terms of family life and love....she was running from her self ...rather than facing the pain.
Jenny. Your right she is making these choices of her own free will. She claims she was messed up. And I get it how some things are so painful it can a lot of cause damage, but just because of what her dad did, she didn't have to go down that road she could have gotten some help right away. but she didn't she purposely went after men who would treat her like her daddy did to her. she's just one of these girls who refuse to look at a good man and see hey this person is trying to help me. but they don't feel worthy of it. so, they purposely hurt themselves because deep down they think they deserved to be punished. I am sorry Iam not trying to offend anyone. just trying to state the facts.
15:30 Hitchhiking was actually encouraged by the gov. There were PSA's and everything. It was to save fuel during WW2. But it started well before that. Airbnb took the idea from niche Bed and Breakfasts (bnb) that have existed long before the internet 😊
I think it's easy to forget that Jenny was molested by her father and as a result ended up in a variety of abusive relationships that only helped to form her perspective. You could say that she took advantage of him in the end but if you listen to her she owns up to her behavior and treatment of Forrest and to be clear she never asked him for so much as a cent while she knew him. This isn't you're fault because all reaction channels seem to have no compassion for jenny and I think that's from this idea that the movie needs a conflict/villain but it had multiple conflicts one was an actual war. Just understand that victims of sexual assault from caregivers/gaurdians cause the most intense damage and make it next to impossible to form intimate relationships with others oh and the fact the movie takes place in the 60s-80s where the idea of mental health was more so from schizophrenics/criminally insane pov Jenny might not have ever been able to get therapy. Love your reviews especially your Harry Potter ones!
I don't see Jenny as a villain! I think she always loved Forest but wanted to be in a better state of mind before she committed to a full on marriage with him.
No bro, Forrest and Jenny weren't cut from the same cloth, they were just from the same neighborhood. Forrest grew up with a loving parent willing to do anything for his future and Jenny grew up with the literal opposite. It writes you. She loved him more than anyone or anything in the world, even herself. That's why she had to spare him her journey through Hell. She could at least do that for him. It may not have been kind in our eyes the way she did it, but it was the best she could do. She knew he didn't deserve the pain it would hold for him, she also knew he'd always forgive her and she didn't want forgiveness. She was a broken thing. An important lesson in parenting I'd say. Loved the video, you're a very genuine person.
I think a lot the Jenny storyline is really about how her childhood made her feel throughout her life. She knew she was messed up and was afraid of hurting Forrest, she wanted to be with him but didn't feel good or pure enough for someone like him. It really kind of dives into the psychology of childhood abuse victims. The low self-confidence and seeking abusive partners herself..the drug use was all because of what was engrained from her father........and Forrest was so innocent and pure because his mother had made the world simple and easy to understand that he could truly love Jenny unconditionally.
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You are right with Jenny but not a popular opinion as I experienced
Ok, here's the deal -- Jenny never set out to hurt Forrest in anything she ever did, all she ever did is hurt herself. She never manipulated him for her gain. She was always honest with him. Have we walked a mile in her shoes? In its simplest form what we see is unconditional love from Forrest. That's the message of the movie. In a more complicated form, what we often see from Reactors is a complete lack of compassion for a very troubled girl who can't seem to get out of her own way. In layman's terms, she had to grow up, and Lil Forrest was the event in her life that propelled her. This is a normal curve in MANY people's lives. Even without Christ.
And by law Forrest would've wound up with his son either way. Jr. needed to see his daddy and mommy together before she passed, and she knew that.
in a deleted scene Forrest also crossed paths with Martin Luther King Jr .
To be a little girl and be sexually assaulted by the one male in her life that should have been her guardian angel caused her to feel worthless and not loveable. Her rejecting Forrest was her way of trying to protect him from making a mistake by getting too close to her. Extremely sad, for many children out there.
Yes but she also would come back into his life, lead him on, then disappear.
Right, and she was just not strong enough to overcome that part of her life. So, it messed her up and it affected her life choices.
@Move_I_Got_This incorrect she didn’t have anybody else to give Forrest Jr too so she finally told him. If she didn’t have that disease, she definitely wouldn’t have told Forrest about him because she wouldn’t want a special needs around her son. Jenny is the worst character in movie history so don’t try to defend her. Yes she did deserve redemption but she doesn’t deserve forgiveness
People always seem to overlook that part of the story and think Jenny is just this awful person.
@@jonlate4581 Great comment. She was severally abused, I've been bullyed. People never should condamned the actions from a movie character when emotions are involved.
The best character arc in the movie is actually LT Dan. He is a broken man after the war, not just physically but emotionally and psychology. Has PTSD and sees no point to living. He could easily let that spiral the rest of his life into despair, drugs, abusing others etc. But he actually accepts Forrest's help, and through his friendship, finds redemption.
psychologically*
I still and always felt Jenny loved Forrest but she was too damaged by her father molesting her and thought she wasn't worthy of Forrest's love so she kept him at a distance she also knew how pure Forrest was and didn't want to ruin him with all her issues. I think that is why she apologized to him because she knew she was probably hurting him but that was the only way she thought she could protect him from her issues and now that she was dying she didn't have to try and keep him at a distance anymore she would be gone soon.
I didn’t really appreciate the complexities of this movie when I was younger. It has grown on me so much as I understand more. The problem is that even today people value intelligence over character (kindness etc) and it’s a shame because Forrest would be the best friend you could have.
I was going to say almost exactly the same thing. She did love him and that is why she stayed away. She lost her mom young, had an abusive feather an then abusive relationships not by choice exactly. you kinda fall into a pattern and its not an easy cycle to break. She was trying to protect Forrest like Frank said and I'm guessing also felt unworthy of his pure love never having experiencing it before. They grew up in the same place but Forrest's mom showed him how to love and act. Jenny was not as lucky.
And by law Forrest would wind up with him either way after she passed. It's also odd that the people don't understand the laws of attraction - Forrest just may not have been her type. But the love was always there, no doubt.
Thought she was also like every other character who saw Forrest as incognitive, being the 60s-70s. Her self reflection on her affection for him in a sexual way disgusted her as thinking she was the same as her father taking advantage of her as a child; him being a man-child. It revolted her.
TheXzonnet you’ve crossed over into adding your own facts to the plot.
Jenny's life is a juxtaposition to Forrest Gump's life. They both go through troubling childhood experiences. However, Forrest had the benefit of an awesome parent to guide them through the difficulties of life. Whereas Jenny never had that and she was left to search for that comfort as a broken person. Amazing writing to give the story an anchor as well as a propelling force to drive Forrest Gump forward in life.
Jenny gave forrest the only advice she knew of: run when trouble appears.
I was about to make a similar comment, but then I read yours, and I can't say it any better.😎
Aside from a pretty fair portrayal of an abuse victim not feeling worthy of affection it also portrays a fairly common aspect of the interaction of people in another way. Namely the way each side may very differently interpret the kind of relationship they have. Forrest wanted a romantic relationship and Jenny did not. That isn't leading anyone on, Jenny clearly loved Forrest, just not romantically.
I would argue that she never really cared for him that way. She was just worn down by life and saw Forrest as a safe choice, and she did love him on some level. I think often as an audience we want characters to fall in love with each romantically, but especially in real life both sides often do not feel the same kind of love for each other. Attacking the other side for not feeling the same is not really fair or honest about the depth of relationships people can actually with each other.
@@ididthisonpulpous6526 Actually I feel that she loved him first, when they were younger she was the one always clinging to him, she was the one sneaking out to get to him etc
but he didn't realize what it meant, when they grew older the role were reversed.
@@Deorman Romantic love and Platonic love are two different things. I am certain that she loved Forrest since they were children. Romantically no. I think part of what the movie illustrates is her confusion about what Romantic Love is and makes her statements to Forrest about not understanding rather ironic, but I do think it is clear she was attracted to Forrest nor was she interested in pursuing a romantic relationship until she had re-evaluated what long term romantic partner should be for her.
Yeah, they were from the same place, but Forrest had a loving mother who did everything for him and Jenny was abused by her father. I like your attitude of "you choose your own path" but sometimes life kicks you sooo hard that you can lose your way. And i think Jenny did have a change of heart and not just used Forrest.
12:53: As I noted on another Forrst Gump reaction, the reason those letters came back is that Forrest sent them to the only address of Jenny's he knows, her fathers place. Which is the only place Jenny would never set foot in again.
Forrest had a mother who loved and believed in him unconditionally. She didn't believe she was worth loving.
The big difference between Jenny and Forest was not their intellect but their home life. Forest had a loving mother who encouraged him and taught him to never doubt his abilities. Jenny had a father who sexually and physically abused her and such trauma can absolutely destroy some people for life. She loved Forest but did not believe that she was worthy to be loved herself.
The people who keep criticising her, who keep saying that she is leading Forest on or blame her for her behaviour, you really need to start looking into what damage sexual childhood trauma can do to people. Her entire feeling of self worth was damaged and if your entire foundation is violence, how can you make good choices. Putting everything on her shoulders is just wrong.
She is the most tragic character in this movie. And I love Forest for loving her.
When Forrest gets cut off at the D.C. rally he uttered some of the most poignant pieces of dialogue never heard. In an interview the director Robert Zemeckis let viewers know what was said. "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mamas without any legs. In Vietnam, your best good friend could get shot. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that."
That line... "Is he smart, or is he..." breaks me every single time.
Maybe the best line in the movie. In a way, that's Forrest saying he knows full well what he is. In another way, this is Forrest saying he already care for the child.
@@davidlacoste " To do what you tell me to Drill Seargent! "
Not enough gets said about how Jenny probably felt uneasy about getting into a relationship with an intellectually disabled man. Imagine if their genders were reversed and a man of typical intelligence was pursuing a relationship with an intellectually disabled woman...most people would agree that this could be viewed as an exploitative and inappropriate relationship.
Jenny probably felt guilty about that on top of feeling unworthy of Forrest's pure love (because of her severe childhood sexual abuse and other traumas).
Jenny deserves so much compassion and all of Forrest Snr and Forrest Jnr's love. Forrest, of course, deserves all the love too.
But no matter how 'good' or deserving someone is (like Forrest), that still doesn't make one entitled to be in a relationship with someone.
Decades later, and Forrest's speech at Jenny's graveside always breaks me.
It really has me balling too.
18:21 Ms, Californiablend DOESN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE KIND OF ABUSE JENNY SUFFERED AS A LITTLE GIRL AND THE IMPACT IT HAS ON PEOPLES' LIVES. It's extremely difficult to be healed from that kind of childhood hell or to make good choices in life, especially if you don't have proper help, which Jenny didn't. Jenny had been raped repeatedly by her father as a child, and beaten judging by her injuries and torn clothes, Jenny's mother died, possibly killed by her father as well, we don't know, and though they mention that Jenny had sisters, they too are absent from the story, like her mother. Jenny was a severely damaged person, and that she seems to have gotten it together at the end of her life as they show is pretty unlikely in reality with the amount of damage she suffered as a child. Most people who have childhoods as bad as Jenny's never recover.
As for Jenny, being an abused child from a toxic, broken home can have devastating, long lasting effects on a child's life, all the way through adulthood. Which accounts for the bad path she took through her early adulthood. She eventually figured things out. A bit too late, but she got there. Such a moving film.
They were not of the same cloth. He had loving mom, she had a sexually abusing dad. She was broken and knew she wasn't worthy of forest. My heart breaks for Jenny
She obviously thought he was special needs and that’s why she never pursued anything more out of their relationship. It’s not because she thought she wasn’t worthy it’s because she doesn’t want to love someone like Forrest. Her love for him was only a friendship love
@Graeme Roberts I agree with what you said 100%. This is one of my absolute favorite movies. And at first my reaction to Jenny was the same as the one you replied to. But then you realize that Jenny was utterly broken from her childhood and would run from every sort of problem and really never had any commitment to anything. She never showed emotional attachment to anything in the movie. Except Forrest. You see her almost break when he tells her she's going to Vietnam. And then later for little Forrest.
exactly well said!!
It's not Jenny's fault - she grew up abused and molested at the hands of her father. The man who was SUPPOSED to love her and care for her. Her self-destructive behaviour is fallout from that abuse. So's her inability to believe that she could be worthy of the kind of love that Forrest offers.
While that is obviously a horrible thing to happen to a child, she still had a choice in life and so yes, everything that happened to her as an adult is her fault. Many people grow up under the same circumstances, move past it and become productive and happy. People need to take more personal responsibility and stop blaming their problems on others.
I came to comment this. Jenny and Forrest came from the same town but, didn't have the same upbringing.
yeah I'm so tired of UA-cam reactors blaming or hating on Jenny... she was doing the best that she possibly could. Choice is an illusion. Being a good person who never hurts or lets down anyone is a luxury only the ultra privileged have. The rest of us are dealing with a lot of shit that most people have no idea about and just trying to do the best we can.
@@eddiejohnson429 sounds like have very little compassion for your fellow human beings hopefully you'll let some love into your heart someday
When she tells Forrest you don't know what love is she said it because to her love is mixed up with pain, abuse and trauma and she also believed she wasn't worthy of Forrest and would taint his pureness.
11:32 Carrying people while running is a big part of army training, but it's also during that training that my dad injured his leg and was discharged. But if you ask any soldier ever, he DID have to go back. My dad told me, on the battlefield the thing that takes way way WAY more precedent than killing the enemy or staying alive yourself is making sure your fellow soldiers stay alive "Protect the guy next to you and make sure he gets home, because he's the only one making sure you get home" that's also why Forrest got the Medal of Honor. Even though you might've killed people in the situation that earned you that medal, you ultimately get it because your actions saved lives
P.J. O’Rourke on the front cover of the book Forrest Gump said. “Winston Groom has created the ideal citizen for the modern world - a perfect idiot.”
I dont think jenny was lieing when she said she loves forrest, she doid love him but was afraid that if she stayed with him she would hurt him, or vice versa, and i also think she thought she didnt deserve him, also, jenny didnt keep his son from him on purpose, no one seems to realize this takes place long before cell phones, and forrest was running for over 3 years without really stopping, there was no real way for her to contact him.
True and she did write him letter, that he just received.. who knows how long she wrote that letter you know? Since he was running for 3 years and had no form of contact until he got home.
Ridiculous. A new mother who just had a baby and who was concerned about their future would move heaven and earth to contact the father- and not write a single letter over the course of years! Hahahaha
@Hunter66 yup!
@@Hunter-yj6zb how would forrest recieve these letters?
Loved the review. Forrest was raised in a loving home. Jenny was sexually abused by her father. They definitely weren't cut from the same cloth. I can't even imagine. Jenny definitely loved Forrest. She didn't think she was good enough for him. She said he didn't know what love was, but it was her because it was so messed up from the very beginning. She figured it out at the end.
Like Forrest, I've had the challenge of loving a woman that went thru far more abuse than Jenny. Thankfully we both believe in a God that has helped us through the tough times; giving me the patience when I wanted to give up, and helping my wife to forgive and heal. We now have six kids (one who's named Jenny) and seven grandkids. The biggest key is to not just call God Lord, but to treat Him as LORD, realizing that He has a much better life for us than what we can create. Even Jesus had to do His Father's will in order to do what He did. John 5:19
When someone is abused, they often believe that they are unworthy of being with a 'regular', person. Jenny wanted to keep her relationship apart from the rest of her life. Her relationship with Forrest was her 'safe place' where she returned to feel safe. But she didn't feel good enough for Forrest. Also, Forrest was out running for over three years (unreachable), and then he was at home for a while, when Jenny's letter got to him.
Jenny was protecting Forrest, by keeping away from him, while she was suffering from the results of her child abuse from her father. Forrest was her safe place, and she protected him from the ugly life she had.
Jenny loved and respected Forrest. And she 'mothered' him by her keeping him innocent and uninvolved in her reality. She was a good friend to him.
2:23 🤯 I have seen this movie a billion times, how come I have never noticed that before
Gary Sinise the actor who played Lieutenant Dan went on to be
a leader in the movement to support seriously disabled veterans
look up The Lieutenant Dan Band and the Gary Sinise Foundation
Jenny's problem is how she was used and abused, 1st by her father, then by every man she met except Forrest. She felt like she was worth nothing and was never going to be worth anything and would just bring Forrest down with her , she had no idea how to love anyone. It wasn't until she had little Forrest and was given one pure good thing in her life she was able to find her self worth to a point and then accepted that she loved Forrest and always had and it was OK to love someone and not expect them to hurt her. It is very complicated and you get snippets of it in every scene she is in. The first thing you see is all she knows how to do is run from anything as she keeps telling Forrest to do , she doesn't know any other way to deal with the pain and bad and it takes her so long to finally figure it out ( unfortunately this is true for too many and some never get to figure anything out) , Jenny deserves pity not hate , she didn't know how to love until it was too late but she gave Forrest 2 gifts before she left, true love and what it feels like , and someone to love and give his life meaning in Forrest Jr. . Forrest might not be a genius but I would lay any bet he is an incredibly loving and good father.
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She was used and abused by those other guys because she gravitated toward guys who would treat her that way. This is unfortunately an issue for all young women, but especially abuse victims. The only realistic part of the movie.
What most people don't get about Jenny is that her spirit was way more broken and bent than Forrest's spine ever was. The two of them meeting on the bus for the first time and Forrest thinking she was an angel, well Jenny felt his purity and innocence even more. Because hers was lost to her lowlife scuzbucket of a father.
JENNY LOVED FORREST WAY MORE THAN FORREST LOVED HER. but. She never felt good enough for him because, in her mind she wasn't pure like him. She loved him so much, that she protected Forrest from his one and only weakness. Herself.
And years and years later, she finally figured out it wasn't her fault. Years after that, she found it in herself to forgive herself for not being innocent because that was never her fault. It was only then that she could look Forrest in the eye and feel worthy of his love and reciprocate it.
That is how absolutely fucking damaging abuse is. It can completely fuck up multiple lives for decades and even generations.
That's the true story of Forrest Gump. Don't ever judge Jenny. She was just a sweet little abused girl that no one but Forrest could see how soft and pure her heart was. Pure enough to deny herself of a life and a love she truly deserved and allow Forrest to blossom simply because she had to straighten it all out in her mind, heart, soul and body first, before giving herself to him.
She suffered for years to protect Forrest from her. She gave up her own life so that Forrest wasn't held back in his by all of her demons. She allowed Forrest to live a good life by sacrificing her own.
That is love in its purest form.
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Yes she loved Forrest so much that she not only wouldn’t allow him Into her or HIS son’s life but didn’t even tell him that he had a son for years.. that is until she got sick and needed him.
I agree with all of that except the part about Jenny loving Forrest more than he loved her. She obviously loved him but love is literally the only thing Forrest truly understands. He loved her as much as humanly possible.
Nah. Forrest loved her more, and people kinda excuse Jenny alot.
@Vicente Geonix yep and in real life these same people would be like “nope!” And get the heck outa there!
Yea I don't get how a lot of reactors don't get that jenny was abused n thus that's how she ended up spiraling with all those bad choices. She even contemplates suicide like what twice in the film? 🤦🤷😂
Yeah, exactly. While Jenny and Forrest did come from the same place, they are not cut from the same cloth. She had a VERY different and abusive home life with her father, while Forrest had a loving and supportive mother, which is why their paths were completely different and skewed.
No we get it, but there’s a limit and a line which she crossed after having Forrest’s son and then keeping him from him for years until she needed him.
@@Hunter-yj6zb She had him while Forrest was running across the country. This was before cellphones and internet, she had no way of contacting him. It's not like she could quit her job and just take off trying to find him.
The he couldn’t be located argument is such nonsense. A mentally handicapped man is declared missing and authorities go searching, oh whoops there he is on the news. Plus the writers would have scenes showing her trying to locate him. No she sends 1 letter over YEARS after she knew she was sick. That’s it, and it leaves open her character using him when she had to.
YOu gotta give Jenny some slack. She was working out her problems in the only way she knew how, and that was to run away. It took her a lifetime to come to terms with the fact that the peace and safety she desired would not be found in various parts of the world but in her hometown, with her childhood friend and first love. We all have to experience journeys in our lives, we hope we can get to where we want but we don't know if what we are doing is gonna get us there. JEnny represents that emptiness that needs to be filled in all of us. Especially those that have suffered from abuse.
Forrest Gump is the perfect Taoist character. He's simple, just being his natural self, isn't very bright, but he's the steady one, while the world around him changes and is lost. Forrest doesn't plan, pontificate, scheme, he just is...and thus he overcomes. One of the most powerful moments in the movie is when he tells Jenny that he loves her and she tells him: "Forrest you don't know what love is." The truth being that Forrest has always known what love is and it's Jenny, the higher IQ one, who doesn't really know.
Jenny was emotionally damaged. She would have had difficulty recognising love, mistaking it for the type of emotional manipulation that was her early representation of love. It wasn't really love that her father showed her and it wasn't really love from any boyfriend represented in the story, except Forrest who unfortunately bore the consequences of Jenny's childhood trauma. I'm afraid it is like this for so many adults suffering CPTSD and the like. They can often be resistant to true emotional attachment which makes them difficult to get to know personally. How can you love if you don't know love?
6:00 This was pretty advanced in the 90's.
For sure to scale James Cameron for T2. Then he did Titanic.
2001, Alien, Aliens, Terminator, Terminator 2.. Of these properties, which gender was the protagonist? Now insert your hate. Take it and make it your life. Now this goes to feminists as well. Unless you preform, I don't care
I did my final college paper in my Moral and Social Philosophy class on Forrest Gump. Your reaction narration is identical to my paper. I got an A and so do you. Great reaction.
You can't get no better of a friend like Bubba and Gump
The theme of running is woven throughout this film. Forest runs away from bullies at an early age and eventually finds running to be something he’s good at. But Jenny is the one who does the most running. She’s running away from her childhood trying to find peace in very destructive ways. Forest was part of her childhood and even though she loved him, it probably hurt to be around him because it was like being home again. It wasn’t until faced with her own mortality that she knew running wasn’t working. In our darkest moments we find strength.
i don't know how they could have made it more obvious how broken Jenny was. Running away from the good, always putting herself in a position to get hurt. Drugs and abuse, just like she learned from her daddy. Of course she loved Forest. That's why she ran.
The dumber reactors seem very unsympathetic towards her.
Every single time I see a woman react to this, they have a big hump on about Jenny. "She treats him like trash. He deserves better." And every guy is like, "Awwwww. They're finally together." Weird.
Your personality and expressions are everything ❤️
I agree with you a lot of people suffer from their upbringing but what you said is 100% true. You are your CHOICES, or in forrests words “stupid is as stupid DOES”. And you are accountable for those choices no matter what. Some people just have a hard time accepting she ruined her own life bc she was a victim as a child.
if you like this movie
I would recommend Being There with Peter Sellers.
It has a similar theme but is much more subtle.
Hello, CB.
Nice react to this classic. But it always amazes me how little sympathy Jenny gets, even from women. Jenny was sexually ABUSED as a CHILD. This caused her severe TRAUMA. It's all well and good to talk about choosing this and that, but it's easier said than done under certain circumstances. It takes a long time to understand and sort out trauma like that. And she eventually does.
Also, she cared very much for Forrest. But she was trying to run away, like she told Forrest to do. She was trying to run away from her pain and herself. She didn't feel worthy of Forrest's love and caring.
Anyway, enjoyed the react. Look forward to more. Take care. Regards from Illinois!
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Nope. Jenny gets a pass only up to when she has Forrest’s son. What she does then is not forgivable. I think that is a major flaw in the movie that ruins the Jenny character.
I think it’s really really hard for people who haven’t suffered abuse to forget one key factor:
Victims of abuse are brainwashed to believe they DESERVE it.
That is their reality. “He wouldn’t have hit me if I’d worn the right dress,” “He wouldn’t be touching me that way if I didn’t provoke him,” “I’m lucky to have her, because who else would put up with me?”
Jenny’s abuse was probably from the day she was born in some fashion or other. She can’t fathom that it’s not her fault, so for most of the film, she’s afraid to hurt Forest because she sees herself as “bad.”
That’s why she runs after their night together. Imagine knowing only misery your whole life and thinking you deserved that, then tasting happiness and feeling like you are stealing it because you aren’t worthy.
Jenny had to get herself past that for the sake of her son, and once she did, she contacted Forest. Not wholly excusable, but still pitiable.
Oh, also, NOBODY talked about abuse back then. Hell, I grew up in the 80s and 90s and no one talked about it then. It was controversial when the police taught us about “bad touch” in like third grade. Parents were furious that we were discussing “that stuff” in school.
There was no Reddit to say, “Girl, run!” There was little to no representation in media for trauma. There was also not as much understanding of the psychological effects of trauma on people. Even war vets with PTSD were told to get over it. So Jenny had no support and no other voice outside of what her abusers told her.
Jenny is a testament to how unresolved childhood trauma can mess you up in adulthood. She wanted to fly away (escape), and she kept trying to do that by running from pillar to post over the years. She didn't think she was good enough for Forrest after her tarnished past. She finally made the decision to get her shit together after that faithful night (which is why she told the cab driver: "I'm not running"), and I think the pregnancy helped her with that... she focused all her energy on being a good mum, and giving her child a better childhood than she had. I believe she didn't want to reach out to him until she deemed herself "worthy"... plus he was running for 3 years of that child's life.
Jenny, made bad choices. Whenever Jenny said Run Forrest Run! Or when she told him to just run away Forrest, whenever he was in trouble, in Vietnam. It was just her own trauma, from when she was sexually abused by her own father to just run away into the corn field. She was just a very damaged, and hurt human, that was projecting her own pain onto Forrest. Forrest was the only person that could carry that pain for Jenny, and love her despite Jenny pushing him away. How does no one see this? They only see Jenny as a manipulative, heartless person, when in fact this is a story of Forrest and Jenny and how Forrest helped Jenny come out of the trauma she went through as a child? This a love story between Forrest and Jenny, in the end. I'm pretty sure it's evident that Jenny loves Forrest, by the fact that she wants to spare him, by the line when she says, "You don't want to marry me." She was acknowledging that Forrest was too good for her and that he deserved better than her, and she came back to him in that time. Because Forrest always felt like home to her and she knew that he would never hurt her. Same as if we were to come to Jesus, we have a home and no matter how much we hurt him we will always be welcome, despite our past traumas or how much we use him.
Jenny made bad choices and we see what could have been but a kid needs a loving mother and father.... Jenny didnt get that and so she was broken inside. This is probably a very accurate portrayal of many who come from broken homes and abuse. Even a loving man like Forrest cant fix it... people need JESUS to heal all that.
I’ve seen lots of folks react to this one….but have never laughed so hard in my life, like I did at this one….when you said…you telling me Forest was at the moon landing?! Lost it. Comedy gold. How funny would that have been. He’s looking out the window. Lolololol. That should be a skit somewhere. You’re awesome.
I laughed out loud when she said that because in the book he does actually become an astronaut. 🤣
25:31 "Why did she wait so long??" I'm no Jenny fan myself, but what did you expect her to do? Chase after him while he was running across the country for all those years?
Oh yes because it would have so hard to locate a man on the news jogging. Please
@@Hunter-yj6zb "Oh look, he's in Colorado today... let me get my jogging shoes on and try to catch up with him." Or maybe she should have gotten into her car and chased him... during the gas shortage.
I guess stupid really IS as stupid does with some people. 🙄
@@jscan4442Correct, she was a waitress and a single mother raising a child. Yeah, it's not like she could just leave her job, grab her young son, and go on a cross country quest.
Yes stupid is a good word here. A mentally handicapped man goes missing but a mother with a newborn can never contact the authorities to find him, oh no that could never happen. No, instead she writes a single letter over a span of years and moves on. BS
A feelgood movie……reacted by a truly feelgood soul.
Really lovin’ your reactions! 👍🏼
i grew up in that history i was young when kennedy was shot it about drove me crazy as much as it was on tv cutting out my toons and tv shows
When Jenny tells Forrest he's the dad and it LITERALLY takes him back and he says "Is he smart or is he-..." That part just BREAKS me. Easily my favorite scene in the history of film. Tom Hanks is so fantastic. And the fact that what he's really asking is "Do people think he's smart or do they think hes like me because hes different" and the fact that thats his FIRST concern. Because he knows if hes seen as different he will have a rough time growing up like he did. Just such a great moment.
I have no idea how you didn't shed a tear during this!
THIS!
The two choices between Jenny and Forrest were not of their own making. Jenny had, at the surface, all the advantages and Forrest the disadvantages. But, their support network was different. Forrest had a mother who always had his back the rest of the world saw him as different, and she had a sadistic father who did whatever to her, but they did not see her front. The same with lieutenant Dan, Who was disabled in the war, and he had to find his place in the world. All of them had scars they had to deal with, and they did. Jenny, who had the biggest scars, did overcome, although not a second too late.
I am so very glad, someone who has reacted to this film finally gets the historical references and events, very refreshing, thank you so much, hope all is well in California..😁😁😁
Forrest was on the road ever since she left. And she had to leave. She was drug addicted and needed rehab.
0:04 is my ONLY gripe about this movie. The author kinda got the shaft. The movie adaptation is much different, but still. Just my opinion, it's the one blemish on this masterpiece.
You should react to Apollo 13. Happens around the same time period and has both Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, and Geoffrey Blake (Wesley, the one who slapped Jenny), in it. Both movies were released within a year of each other.
I had to go on business trip to New Orleans and I went out of my way just so I could go have a shrimp lunch in Bayou Le Batre Alabama. Best part of the trip and the shrimp were amazing.
Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise made three films together, all with very different directors and very different stories. All three films are fantastic, and now you've watched two: The Green Mile and Forrest Gump. Might as well watch the third: Apollo 13.
As many people pointed out, your complete lack of sympathy for Jenny was surprising, she had a very traumatized childhood from abusive father, it hurt so deep that she basically gave up hope, without any clear direction, she ended up drifting along with all kinds of "friends" during that turbulent period, a refection of that particular beat generation.
At the worse moment, she almost killed herself. Once back to Forrest, she must had such a strong guilt feeling, and low self esteem, probably that's why she left, not to escape, but to "fix/clean herself" first, to become a better person.
Judging by the latest uniform, she seemed work as a waitress of some kind, basically a proper job, couldn't be far away from pervious drug addict, she could now face Forrest without any quilt, hence no more escaping.
Comparing to Forest's simple belief and unbelievable good luck, Jenny's story is more real, they complement each other beautifully.
The human mind is a powerful thing. If it is damaged early on through trauma/abuse...ones choices become awfully stunted.
16:08 well in the book Forrest was also an astronaut
Jenny loved Forrest, but hated herself. She didn't think she was too good for Forrest, she thought he was too good for her. She needed to work through that before she could go back to him. Unfortunately, it took her too long and she died too soon. It hurts me to always hear people say that about her because she was just messed up. I have seen this movie about a hundred times, and I absolutely love it.
16:16 I guess you could always watch Apollo 13 to see more Forrest/Lt Dan adventures😂
Tom Hanks's performance is so good that we often overlook how good was Sally Field too.
They use to called them Touris homes , he spent 25,000 on the boat
Great reaction, I dont know why but I really like the way you sound when you talk...lol
She was so pissed at Jenny that she let it blind her to the reality of the situation. By the end she was getting upset at Jenny for getting sick and even worse for dying LMAO, it was so strange to watch. She should look at neurobiologist and primatologist Robert Sapolsky's work to gain a little empathy for Jenny and the "choices" she made.
Your laughter is such a delight. Please never stop making videos.
I think every reaction to this movie that I've watched, everybody seems to forget that Jenny was being molested by her father from a very early age. I can't think of anything that could fuck a person up more than that.
Jenny goes down the only path she knew growing up, it took her a long time to work through all that trauma from childhood that Forrest never had or had a support system and unshakable love from his mother. And it's too easy "why are you doing that" if you didn't have to go through it.
Yo you shifting Forest narration voice to deep like that is funny an creepy especially around the 3:20 mark😂😂😂😂
23:15 She loves him; she just doesn't love herself.
She was assaulted sexually by her father and then got on drugs. She came back to Alabama when she quit drugs. She had to do that for herself. Got aides ad died.
I'm glad I randomly found your channel. You're fun to watch 😊
One of the best smiles I've ever seen. I can tell you have a really wonderful heart.
Thanks for watching! Welcome to the channel!
So many reactors misunderstand Jenny and don’t see that the way people talk about them is a huge part of why so many women, and men, don’t come forward and inform people that they are being abused. Instead, if they are killed or don’t kill themselves, they go through life w/ a heavy cross on their back and an albatross on their necks and people just talk trash about them and their inabilities to commit in relationships or maintain a steady and reliable group of genuine friends instead of others they know will abuse them or use them.😢😔😭
I love watching your reactions I just want to know what planet you are from because you are intelligent and well informed. Most people your age couldn't tell us how many states are in the union.
Jenny always cared about Forrest - a lot. She felt she was too broken, not worthy of his love, and SHE was the one that didn't know what real love is. Her abusive father kept her for knowing what true love is. Like many sexually abused children she only knew to show love through the use of her body. The only thing that was ingrained in her head to was to run (fly away) from her problems like she did from her father. It is what she taught Forrest to do and that is what she did. It explains why she said "you don't want to marry me" and it is why her answer to "Where are you running off to" was profound. She said "I am not running" meaning she was going to straighten out her life so she felt worthy of Forrest's love. And when that finally happened, her past caught had up with her and she had contracted Aids.
Exactly. 👍
Wow. Lot's of people defending Jenny (and getting on your case for having an opinion) while i was typing my response. Jenny is a complex character and you certainly have the right to see her behavior any way you choose. That is part of what makes this movie so good. It makes a person think while entertaining you the whole way through.
Nope. If she hadn’t got sick she never would have contacted Forrest or allowed him in HIS son’s life. This is a flaw in the movie that ruins Jenny’s character.
@@Hunter-yj6zb Her getting sick and realizing she was dying, plus having a child, caused her to reevaluate her life and her choices.
My point is the Jenny character would have been better served by the writers if she had not cut Forrest out of his son’s life for years and contacted him before she knew she was sick. Also the whole running part of the movie was frankly dumb- where was he eating, shitting, sleeping for almost 4 years? And all Jenny had to do was file a missing person’s report (adding he’s a mentally handicapped man and father of her newborn) and the authorities would have found him. Hell once she had the baby she could have moved back into his house, while they searched for him, and had help from all his neighbors (maybe even gasp get a waitress job there). They way the movie is written there is doubt at the end of Jenny’s motives; that she contacted him only because she had to, and I would made sure that the audience knew that was not what she was doing.
that march on Washington about Nam was huge
Parents are everything. Forrest had a supporting, encouraging mom that loved him with all her heart, Jenny on the other hand had an alcoholic, violent, sexually and physically abusive father. Children are like sponges. It is no accident that Forrest thought he could do anything and did while Jenny was beaten down, demoralized and full of doubt, picking abusive men like her father was. She knew no better but sort of finally corrected herself in the end when she had a responsibility in her life, her son.
The Illness brought her life into focus because she could never let go of her pain and she never felt she deserved happiness and knowing her life was short the reality of that and obviously she got help as a nurse. And while yes she might never have reconnected it wasn't for lack of not caring or loving Forest but her own guilt of knowing how she had treated him. She now had no choice and couldn't trust the family she didn't have to look after Forest Jr. So, lest he who is without sin cast the first stone. The hardest thing or to be like Jesus is to realize there is only forgiveness no matter your sins in his eyes.
What I get from this, is that Forrest was a clueless innocent who never let the fame get to his head.
Forrest was always Jennies true rock. The one pristine person in her life, that she knew would always have her back. She was behaving like that towards him, cause she was protecting him from herself. Probably without even realising that thats what she did.
Rest assured … Jennie loved him. But she knew he was one of Gods true spirits. And she didn’t think her worthy of him.
I totally disagree about Jenny, she wasn't his downfall nor unredeemable. They did not come from the same cloth, as she grew up with sexually abused by her father, while Forrest had a loving home and a stable relationship with his mother. Jenny was pretty much broken by her childhood and it cause her to live a destructive life and her relationships with men. She loved Forrest as her best friend but wasn't in love with him as he was the only stable male relationship she had. She was a good friend to him growing up as she accepted him for who he was and never put him down like the others. She also felt she wasn't good enough for his love which is why she kept pushing him away. Besides, she did had her own life to lead and was never his girlfriend so she really didn't do anything wrong in going away except for the last time when she left without telling him after they had sex. She also never took advantage of him and never cared about his wealth. She came back the first time, because I think she was lonely as was he and wanted escape her terrible life she was living and being around Forrest and back at home was the only good thing she had but she felt she wasn't good for him which is why she left but I think she had sex with him just to give him something special before she went. Jenny just seemed to runaway a lot from her situations in a way she was running away from herself. I think she didn't tell Forrest about her son sooner was because she didn't want him to feel obligated after leaving him the way she did. She told him the truth because she wanted to her son to have a loving family before she died and also give Forrest what he wanted a marriage and to get to know his son because she knew he would take good care of him when she's gone. I think some viewers get Jenny wrong, she's not the bad person who used Forrest but a damaged person who needed to get her own life together.
I think this movie is really interesting in how it has three different philosophies for life in different characters. 1) Forrest is flowing with the wind like the feather in the beginning/end of the movie, taking life as it comes to him. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get. 2) Lieutenant Dan believes in destiny. We are not just flowing randomly through life, but we are destined for things. 3) Jenny, being abused as a child by her own father is running away from troubles. Whenever she is scared, she runs away as she also advices Forrest to do. Due to her abuse, she has very low self-esteem. She believes she does not deserve the kind of love and care Forrest provides, but seeks men that abuse her.
This is one of the movies one can watch a million times.
18:26 I feel like somehow you're missing the fact that Jenny's father was abusing her sexually through most of her adolescence. That's why all her adult choices are badly chosen.
Jenny was physically, sexually & emotionally abused by her own father. A man who was supposed to protect, love & care for her upbringing. This shattered Jenny's self-worth. She never thought she was good enough or deserving of love, especially from a such an honest, caring person as Forrest, who grew up with a devoted, supportive mother. It took Jenny a long time to heal and at that time there was a great stigma in getting help or therapy. Still today there is victim-blaming & disbelief of their trauma. After she had little Forrest, she finally realized she had a life worth living. She never asked Forrest for anything, she worked as waitress & scraped by. Jenny may have been running away from herself all this time, but she never lied to Forrest. Broken people deserve love, even when they aren't able to give it.
Yoooooooooo. One of the best movies ever. You have to do a Tom Hanks month… You already did Saving Private Ryan and The Green Mile so check out Catch me if you Can, Castaways, Road to Perdition, Sully, You Got Mail, and Apollo 13 if you have never watch them. Great movies.
Big. Splash. A League of Their Own
it is so sad to see the complete lack of empathy for Jenny in this reaction, and to be so judgmental. I recall watching the movie when it first came out, and people seemed to have more understanding of why Jenny's made her choices. Hate to see people becoming less sensitive to other's challenges and the results of abuse.
Nearly all of those people were never abused, and don't know what it's like.
i agree. Ive never been abused, but even I could see the cause and effect on her behavior. I'd say Jenny had a TREMENDOUS story arc: it seemed she pulled her life together with minimal resources. Im assuming she couldnt afford therapy on a hitchiker's salary or a waitress's salary...she had to do it herself.
To be honest, I was taken aback by the lack of empathy. Really taken aback. I was subscribed, but unsubscribed a few seconds later. Such a shame: she seemed like a positive person, but to not have reaction to Lt. Dan losing his legs, to Lt Dan thanking forrest for saving his life, momma's death...im not sure what i'm looking at.
I suppose I need to get used to a general lack of empathy as it seems there's less and less in the everyday person.
being a victim of abuse doesn't excuse being an asshole. by that logic, all narcissists and sociopaths in the world are justified to do what they want bc of their trauma.
@@tristan4175 That is why they should get help early on, when there would be a higher chance to help them
@@Nagadirchan well they can't. No one knows what's going on in someone's home, except for the people that live there.
think about how long it took him to run across the usa she couldnt write or call him to let him know about a son
One of my favorite movies ❤️❤️❤️ You really can't compare Jenny and Forrest. Forrest grew up with a loving mom. Jenny's dad sexually abused her. Her choices in life was obviously the wrong ones, but it was her way to cope. I think when she said Forrest didn't know what love is she meant herself. And she did NOT take advantage of him. She had her son when he Forrest was out running so she couldn't tell him. She turned her life around and got a job and stopped taking drugs because of her son and she wanted her son to have a dad so that's why she reached out. Sorry, but I'm always gonna defend Jenny. I love her.
In some ways Jenny was fortunate. Even though she made bad choices as a young woman, she still left a beautiful intelligent child, turned her life around, and made sure Forest and their son would be together. Little Forest was left in the best hands possible, before his mother moved on. My childhood sweetheart died at the hands of her father. He killed her two brothers, baby sister, and her mother too. Also killed himself. May 17, 1969.
Forrest's love was abused as a child - that's why she was harming herself!
Jenny was sexually abused and had no family support where as Forrest had the love of his mother....they came from the same place but were different in terms of family life and love....she was running from her self ...rather than facing the pain.
She didn't tell him because he WAS RUNNING!
Jenny. Your right she is making these choices of her own free will. She claims she was messed up. And I get it how some things are so painful it can a lot of cause damage, but just because of what her dad did, she didn't have to go down that road she could have gotten some help right away. but she didn't she purposely went after men who would treat her like her daddy did to her. she's just one of these girls who refuse to look at a good man and see hey this person is trying to help me. but they don't feel worthy of it. so, they purposely hurt themselves because deep down they think they deserved to be punished. I am sorry Iam not trying to offend anyone. just trying to state the facts.
your face when he got jennys letter hahah
Jenny didn't know what love was so when she had those feelings
she didn't know what to do about it so she ran
If you notice Jenny always ran from her problems instead of facing them
15:30 Hitchhiking was actually encouraged by the gov. There were PSA's and everything. It was to save fuel during WW2. But it started well before that.
Airbnb took the idea from niche Bed and Breakfasts (bnb) that have existed long before the internet 😊
I think it's easy to forget that Jenny was molested by her father and as a result ended up in a variety of abusive relationships that only helped to form her perspective. You could say that she took advantage of him in the end but if you listen to her she owns up to her behavior and treatment of Forrest and to be clear she never asked him for so much as a cent while she knew him. This isn't you're fault because all reaction channels seem to have no compassion for jenny and I think that's from this idea that the movie needs a conflict/villain but it had multiple conflicts one was an actual war. Just understand that victims of sexual assault from caregivers/gaurdians cause the most intense damage and make it next to impossible to form intimate relationships with others oh and the fact the movie takes place in the 60s-80s where the idea of mental health was more so from schizophrenics/criminally insane pov Jenny might not have ever been able to get therapy. Love your reviews especially your Harry Potter ones!
I don't see Jenny as a villain! I think she always loved Forest but wanted to be in a better state of mind before she committed to a full on marriage with him.
No bro, Forrest and Jenny weren't cut from the same cloth, they were just from the same neighborhood.
Forrest grew up with a loving parent willing to do anything for his future and Jenny grew up with the literal opposite. It writes you.
She loved him more than anyone or anything in the world, even herself. That's why she had to spare him her journey through Hell. She could at least do that for him. It may not have been kind in our eyes the way she did it, but it was the best she could do. She knew he didn't deserve the pain it would hold for him, she also knew he'd always forgive her and she didn't want forgiveness. She was a broken thing.
An important lesson in parenting I'd say.
Loved the video, you're a very genuine person.
I think a lot the Jenny storyline is really about how her childhood made her feel throughout her life. She knew she was messed up and was afraid of hurting Forrest, she wanted to be with him but didn't feel good or pure enough for someone like him. It really kind of dives into the psychology of childhood abuse victims. The low self-confidence and seeking abusive partners herself..the drug use was all because of what was engrained from her father........and Forrest was so innocent and pure because his mother had made the world simple and easy to understand that he could truly love Jenny unconditionally.