The reveal that Forrest has been self-aware of his condition this whole time just makes this scene all the more heartbreaking. The last thing he would ever want is anyone to go through life like he did. Especially his child. He knows he’s different and how that can be frustrating to some people.
I think he always knew. When the prostitutes called Lieutenant Dan a freak, Forrest says something about Lieutenant Dan not wanting to be called a cripple anymore than he (Forrest) wanted to be called stupid. I think the beauty of this scene is that he never let it get him down, until he thought his son might go through the same thing.
@munkongwoo751 lol. That was so obvious to me when i saw the movie at the age of 13 back in 1994. Is this generation that off that they dont realize what he meant by that? It's not even that subtle.
The "Is he smart ? Or is he like..." line is a true masterpiece. It took seven words to make the audience realises that Forrest has been self-aware all along. He knows he's not smart and because of that, he went through A LOT and he doesn't want his kid to go through what he's been through. Forrest's first reaction to meeting with hid kid was "I want the best for that kid, I want to protect him". Forrest may have a few IQ points less thn most people but he surely has more heart than most people. Forrest is the best friend or husband anyone could ever have because he will amways put the ones he cares for first, before even himself. He would go throught Hell to protect you.
And there it is. We go through the whole movie thinking that Forrest is just oblivious to his limitations and the fact that people are mocking him. In a half second of facial expressions and speech pattern, we realize that Forrest was well aware all along. It makes everything else hit so much harder.
Only Tom Hanks could have brought out all of Forrest's emotions in that one scene. From the tears in his eyes, to his body language, to his delivery of the lines. Everything is there. Brilliant actor!
@MegaSkills9 he's 32 now and lives across the country, but i have many when he was a boy. When he looked at me during Signs at the end and saw me in tears, he grabbed me and huge me hard. He was so little at the time.
God, your heart clenches when Forrest asks Jenny "is she smart or is she like me" and the relief on her face when she hears her answer... impossible not to cry
She could have called literally any news network, told them her story, and they would jump all over the chance to reveal the news to him, live, on the news 😂
Peter Scolari, Tom Hanks friend from the show Bosom Buddies, called Tom after watching Forrest Gump and said, “Man, when did you learn to act?” He didn’t know Tom had it in him.
@LesleyWelsh-eb8cm of course he is. Jenny wouldn't lie to Forrest about that. She really does love Forrest. He was just to much love for her broken mental state to handle at the time. It takes a long time to deal with sexual abuse. Also remember that the day she left, he went running and didn't stop for three years. As soon as she could find him again she sent him the letter to come to her. She apologized for her behavior and was probably about to tell him about Lil Forrest when the boy got home.
That trail off of, “Is he smart? Or is he,…..” makes my heart break, probably knowing he was going to say “or is he like me?” 💔😫 Forrest knew who he was from the jump.
this scene has always hit me the hardest.🥺 One of my greatest fears was that any children I bore would endure my personal struggles. Over the years I have learned to love myself-appreciate my uniqueness, and I now celebrate all that they are-including the parts that previously vexed me.
I can't remember the last time their were 3 classic epics up for Best Picture at the Oscar. You had Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption.
Yep. And then there are years when deeply flawed films win Best Picture. I won't mention any years lest I step on any toes, but yes, it sure was a tough category in 1995.
You were right to put Cinebinge at the beginning. They had the most emotional reaction. Some of the reactors totally gloss over how brilliantly Tom hanks performed the “Is he Smart?” scene. Hanks was *in* the character and felt those emotions along with Forrest (even tho Forrest isn’t real). It probably takes the cake for the greatest bit of acting ever performed in cinema.
Alot of people dont realize that Jenny was interrupted from telling Forrest about Lil Forrest by their son's arrival. She apologized for treating him as she did because she knew she had committment issues because of her tragic childhood.
For those whose first reaction is to ask why Jenny deprived Forrest of seeing his son until now. : First, she is introducing them now. Forrest didn't find out about it some other way and catch her, she initiated this meeting. So let's at least give her credit for that. Second, he went running and was continually on the road for over 3 years immediately after the conception. By all accounts, he went running in 1976, Little Forrest was born in 1977, and this meeting takes place in 1981, when the child is 4, less than 2 years after he stopped running. Third, Jenny has been dealing with an unfairly cruel and toxic childhood her entire life, including the multiplied effects of a lifetime of drugs and poor choices that were a direct result of that childhood. She has just gotten her life together since the pregnancy (realize most people in that situation never do), watching Forrest's running in the media while a waitress and mother. She likely went through more than a little self-doubt as to whether approaching Forrest during that year or so since he stopped running would be seen as her trying to use him somehow. Remember, she's spent her life loving Forrest, yet thinking herself not good enough for him. She also sees him as innocent and vulnerable, while she likely casts her love for Forrest as something impure, and like her father, taking advantage of an innocent. She keeps running from Forrest to protect him, from herself! She was all messed up before this meeting, as she said, gradually coming out of a lifetime of pain and self-flagellation, and would have been no good for Forrest (either of them) until she finally confronted and fixed all that wrong-headed thinking. Fourth, she's just gotten a diagnosis that's a death sentence, in terms of the medicine of the time. This has served, along with the reality of her own motherhood, instead of causing her to go to pieces, to crystallize her resolve to finally put away her remaining self doubts, reunite with Forrest in the time they have left, and give him the gift of introducing him to his son. Unlike those who see only fault and blame in Jenny, I know how Forrest would react. He would see his son, as he grows up through all the years to manhood, perhaps partnering with Lt. Dan in the family business, as Jenny's greatest gift she ever gave him. Better than running shoes.
A lot of people get mad at Jenny for distancing herself from Forrest. But she just never felt worthy of anything because of the abuse she suffered as a child. It wasn't until she gave birth that she started to feel some self-worth and began putting her life back together.
This scene is what won Tom Hanks an Oscar for best actor for this movie and it always hits me so hard because I understand Forrest in this scene completely I want nothing more than to be a father but I fear the possibility of passing on what I have to them I’ve had a hard life because of what I got and I don’t want anybody else to suffer through what I’ve had to suffer through
I am not a Jenny fan but when some people say that she should have told Forest about little Forest, she could not have. Forest went for a three year run when she left and with this being the 1990's, he had no cell phone. When he got home he found her letter and then found out. I hope that this helps.
A young attractive female will friend zone 99 percent of the males that she will encounter. In fact , ninety percent min will literally be invisible to her. They may. Have a certain usefulness , but that's it. There is nothing unusual about jenny's actions Where We should single her out. Because these two met at the age of I think 8 the audience built up in their minds that they are just meant to be Together. They heard forest say the jenny decided she was meant to be a famous singer. Yet somehow in everybody's mind, Jenny is supposed to want a really, really simple. Basic life which is what Forrest Will have with or without money. I have practically never met a young beautiful woman who was not aming high And later was forced to change expectations after a sufficient amount of years. Everyone needs to the know decisions of jenny are not really all that unusual. A single mother In many many cases is going to drop all Superhigh standards requiring a Chad. When she finds herself a Single mother. Usually it is always a chads Baby and some guy that she turned down years ago Gets to be the sucker She will latch on too. To have A dependable provider.
Man, I’m not sure what makes me sadder, this or Forrest going back into the jungle for Bubba, only for Bubba to die in his arms. I cry just thinking about that scene to this day.
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I think she waited to tell him because she had HIV and probably wanted to make sure her boy wasn't infected so when she was sure little Forest was gonna live healthy she told him Because if she told him righ away and little Forest contracted HIV during birth she knew it would have killed Forest to see his little boy die. 😢
The second that Jenny says the words "you're his daddy forrest,"you can tell the first thought in his head is "Please god don't let him be like me." It kills me that he has been perfectly aware of his disabilities throughout the whole film and his first reaction upon hearing he's become a father is abject terror that his child is going to have that same life.
No one seems to get that the day she left his house in the taxi (before she knew she was pregnant) That Forrest went running - no phone, no internet - he disappeared for 3 years. As soon as he got back she wrote to him to come and visit her.
@@IndyTravelGuide This is like saying she could not find a certain famous sports star in 1994 during a bronco chase. Forest is getting that kind of attention for weeks during his run.
@@martinishotwhile she is working full time to support her child. Speaks more about her character that she didn’t go chasing him down like a desperate groupie because he was famous. She wrote him a letter.
@@JPuReTaLeNt Yes has known him since age 8, Was proposed marrage by him. You are so in tune and so understanding of what a groupie is. If she went to CNN or another media with photos of them covering 30 years asking them to take her to him they or somebody would do it for an exclusive. You know that is what would happen or do you not even understand how media works. Females freindzone guys all the time.This was that going on for many years. But when she got the terrible news she knew reaching out to him was the right thing.
See Jan Go was the best. You could tell they truly got the implication that Forrest knew the whole time he was disabled and was worried that Forrest Jr. could be too.
I think I remember that she didn’t think she deserved someone as nice as him, so after their one night stand she ran off, not to mention what she went through in her youth :(
You need awareness to be able to tell someone that you had a child for them? What? 😂 Jenny took advantage of Forrest for nearly his whole life and then robbed him of seeing his child grow up from a baby. She's genuinely a horrible person.
Something that I don't hear mentioned often is that while Forrest may not have been smart and had a low IQ, he had an enormous ability to connect with anyone he met face to face. That leads me to believe that he has an incredible EQ (Emotional Quotient as opposed to IQ or Intelligence Quotient).
My husband always knows when I'm watching another Forrest Gump reaction bc when this scene comes on 9 times out of 10, I scream "Because he was RUNNING!!" He rolls his eyes & mutters "Another 1? really?" I understand the generation gap but come on, cell phones were still a WHILE away
It's not a generation gap issue. Even when the movie came out there was a LOT of people who had an immediate gut reaction to the scene. It takes time to sit with the scene unless you've been through it yourself. That's what changed people's mind back then and that's what changed people's mind today.
@@Lunch_Meat You don't seem to understand the comment. It refers to all the reactors who ask why Jenny didn't contact Forrest earlier. The reactors miss that there were no cell phones back in the day.
@@libertyresearch-iu4fy aaaand you seemed to have missed my point which is that it's not just a cell phone issue because even back then people were saying she could have done SOMETHING since he was such a public figure.
@@Lunch_Meat You're right, and no one in this world, regardless of age or 'generation', can claim to correctly absorb absolutely everything in a good movie with a complex narrative in one sitting. Who among us hasn't thought "Oh now I get why he did this", or "I missed this clue before" or "hey she always wear pants and never a dress, maybe it signifies something about her character" etcetera, when we rewatch a movie. Also, many of these reactors are young. They're on a learning curve too, just like we were/are. Anyway, you're right, back in 1995 it took me quite some time to process the story and make complete sense of it. Besides, these reactors all know the story takes place in the pre-cellular era - they're not completely clueless about that.
Agree. Though to me it's one of those situations where we shouldn't separate the sexes in terms of emotional responses. It's simply human to be moved to tears by scenes like these. I feel sorry for anyone who suppresses his tears because of the fear of being labeled a 'softy' or whatever. It cannot be healthy.
Sorta personal story but ill share anyway I have autism, the only one in my family who has it. When my sister got married and had her first boy i was so happy for her because when we were little she always talked about having kids. Im not good with kids but i love my nephews (she had two boys). One day we go put and have dinner somewhere and she tells me she was starting to think my first nephew has autism. I didnt show it but my heart sank. I was really upset and scared because my life is a struggle with what i have and its frustrating when ur always around ppl who dont understand you. He hasnt been tested but i hope he doesnt just so he doesnt have to go thru what i did. And even if he does id love him no matter what (Small note: i believed my autism was the start of something on our family dna and that it would strike another family member down the family tree. Kinda like skipping one person and hitting the next. My sister is preggers again and this time it might be a girl. Really happy she finally got a boy and a girl :) hope eveyrone is having a blessed day and sorry for the long comment)
Jenny wasn't able to introduce Little Forrest to his daddy bc his daddy was running across the country the entire time, from day after insemination to this meeting. Jenny didn't keep his son from him; she simply couldn't track him down, quite literally. Remember: No tech. The math maths.
Folks like to trash Jenny, for not telling Forrest that he was going to have a son. However, just like with Forrest's letters to Jenny from Vietnam (Returned to Sender, due to no deliverable address), Jenny had no way to get a letter or phone call to Forrest. He was off running across America for three-plus years.
Yeah no way to reach him... Except the news and fans literally TRACKED HIM his entire run. They knew exactly where he was and where he was going. Did you miss that part of the movie...? In this clip alone she SHOWS HIM SHES BEEN FOLLOWING HIM
@@IDiggPattyMayonnaise true but she has a kid to look after, and those folks can abandon their responsibilities or it was their job to follow him. Not trying to excuse her behavior but i doubt most single mothers are able to chase down someone like Forrest
@@IDiggPattyMayonnaise Okay, how was she supposed to do that? You think the USPS is going to track him down and deliver it to him? What world are you living in? The newspaper and magazine clippings are at least a couple of days old by the time they go to print. A newspaper may say he's at one location, but by the time she reads it, he's long gone. The best anyone could be back then, was a few days behind. "THEY TRACKED HIM HIS ENTIRE RUN" is hearsay. That point was never stipulated in the movie.
@IDiggPattyMayonnaise it's obvious that you were born after the invention of internet and cell phones. The articles she showed were monthly publications so if she went where the articles are from she would only be 3-4 weeks late.
Could someone enlighten the youngins watching this that in the 90s we didn't have cell phones so if you decided to spend 4 years jogging across the country, there was no way for a woman you slept with to let you know that she was pregnant. When Forrest says he got her letter she responded "I was wondering about that" so she must have written it a long time ago. It was different times, kids.
Most people i talked about this movie doubted that it's really his kid. People got such a bad opinion of Jenny that they think she lied and used him until the end...
@@RansomHollywoodYes, the famous single telephone that stretches across every state and has one phone number. We've all seen it. Super inefficient. Glad they finally found another use for it.
She also seems to be making an amends through her words and actions(living amends). It implies to me that she may have been working a good 12 step program.
People hate on Jenny and say she should have told Forrest about Junior. However remember she is an abused child and spent her life running. She was probably told she was a burden on her father for years and than she internalized it. She thought she would hold Forrest back. And as an abused child she thought her child would also hold him back (probably). It wasn't until she got herself into a good place that she could look at her life objectively. She probably got therapy as well.
*THIS* is the empath test. Anyone who hated Jenny is *not* an empath. God gave her a Forrest bc she needed it so desperately. He was the only love in her life before their child was born. And she got her life together to be a good mother for Little Forrest. That's literally all a man can ask of a woman... be a good, loving and stable mother for his child. Jenny did that. Give her her credit for overcoming the worst of life, to give her child the best she could give him. 💛🌻
I love this. Thank you. I’ve always struggled with people who couldn’t understand why Jenny did the things that she did. Forrest always being there for her taught her that she could love herself. To me, she’s the tragic figure of this story.
💯 Folks that hate Jenny lack the depth to see the moral complexity of her character. Like it’s some big mystery to people why the woman sexually and physically abused by her father for years might be a little damaged, and is also a monster for not dating someone mentally challenged just because they’re the protagonist.
@ thanks for hitting on the mentally challenged part. That part also bothered me as well. If this relationship had been reversed - if Jenny was the mentally challenged person - I think people wouldn’t be so quick to want to see them in a romantic relationship together.
@@EverythingisH8speech “he’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” I don’t think “illegitimate” is how his character would feel about having a child with the woman he loved immensely, and with the exception of his mother, the only woman that ever showed him any kind of love. Just my opinion
It's funny that no one knows the kid's name. lol Or the movie he's most known for. Haley Joel Osment and a few years later he would be Cole in "The Sixth Sense". Also, he some how still has the exact same face in his 30's. lol
The actors asking why she didn't say anything to Forest... He was running across the country for years. How was she supposed to get in touch with him? He's still wearing the running shoes.
I loved the reactions until we got to the women who just don't get it. Like, Jenny had ISSUES bro and there's nothing he could've done to help her through any of that journey, as it was hers and hers alone. Also, he was running for YEARS... This was before mobile phones and the internet, people. So, yeah, he's just finding out. What I love about Forest is that he saw and loved Jenny through all her trauma, pain, and self-sabotage. The story isn't just about Forest. Forest was fortunate to have his momma who showed him how to look at the world. She showed him that he was different but never less than anyone or unfortunate in any way and because of it, he lived an amazing life, he knew how to love, and treated people well. This is truly one of the best movies ever made. I'm disappointed to see certain people come in and judge the characters so harshly without seeing the beauty of this perfect web. Man, the '70s and '80s were just a more pure time in the world. I feel sorry for those who'll never know or understand it.
Do y'all think he really is the dad? I damn hope so. I'd like to think she didn't want to have the child of any of the shitty guys that abused her, and to stick it to them chose to carry Forrest's child, the best and purest man she's ever known. Even though she didn't actually love him romantically
The reveal that Forrest has been self-aware of his condition this whole time just makes this scene all the more heartbreaking. The last thing he would ever want is anyone to go through life like he did. Especially his child. He knows he’s different and how that can be frustrating to some people.
Almost all the reactors missed this most important part. Forrest was afraid the child would be "slow" like him! That was what made him withdraw...
I think he always knew. When the prostitutes called Lieutenant Dan a freak, Forrest says something about Lieutenant Dan not wanting to be called a cripple anymore than he (Forrest) wanted to be called stupid. I think the beauty of this scene is that he never let it get him down, until he thought his son might go through the same thing.
And the very first thing he asked is if he's smart 😢
He revealed it way earlier . " i may not be a smart man, but i know what live is"
@munkongwoo751 lol. That was so obvious to me when i saw the movie at the age of 13 back in 1994. Is this generation that off that they dont realize what he meant by that? It's not even that subtle.
The "Is he smart ? Or is he like..." line is a true masterpiece. It took seven words to make the audience realises that Forrest has been self-aware all along. He knows he's not smart and because of that, he went through A LOT and he doesn't want his kid to go through what he's been through. Forrest's first reaction to meeting with hid kid was "I want the best for that kid, I want to protect him".
Forrest may have a few IQ points less thn most people but he surely has more heart than most people.
Forrest is the best friend or husband anyone could ever have because he will amways put the ones he cares for first, before even himself. He would go throught Hell to protect you.
The fact that Forrest was aware of his limitations is what hits the hardest
What limitations….
@@msharp6887 ikr, achieved more than 99.9% of people
yeah, the fact that he was terrified he'd given that child those limitations
@@msharp6887 its OK to recognize limitations in people, you know. We all have them.
@ not forest gump
And there it is. We go through the whole movie thinking that Forrest is just oblivious to his limitations and the fact that people are mocking him. In a half second of facial expressions and speech pattern, we realize that Forrest was well aware all along. It makes everything else hit so much harder.
Only Tom Hanks could have brought out all of Forrest's emotions in that one scene. From the tears in his eyes, to his body language, to his delivery of the lines. Everything is there. Brilliant actor!
Is he smart?....Brought tears to many peoples eyes.
It broke my heart. Between this and Signs, having a young blonde son made me feel the scenes. Very painful.
@@everettbateman4741 I was one of the people that cried watching it. Give your son a hug and a kiss. 😉
@MegaSkills9 he's 32 now and lives across the country, but i have many when he was a boy. When he looked at me during Signs at the end and saw me in tears, he grabbed me and huge me hard. He was so little at the time.
God, your heart clenches when Forrest asks Jenny "is she smart or is she like me" and the relief on her face when she hears her answer... impossible not to cry
*he.😊
"Forrest, there's something you need to know about Forrest................he sees dead people."
like the Indian he just (see money) without doing any actual work himself lol
He also is really attached to the stuffed Donald Duck and Goofy toys I got him.
Plot twist 😂
“Why didn’t she tell him?!”
Forrest Gump: I ran for 3 years 2 months 14 days and 16 hours.
Yeah, but she could have reached him coz he was all over the news.
@@viralhodgepodge2843that’s actually why she wouldn’t be able to reach him. This was the 80s, they didn’t have cell phones and he was always running
She could have called literally any news network, told them her story, and they would jump all over the chance to reveal the news to him, live, on the news 😂
People are watching this movie that don't remember the time before cellphones and email.
Jenny even has the scrapbook that should remind the audience that “oh yeah, he was away from his home and virtually unreachable for years”
Peter Scolari, Tom Hanks friend from the show Bosom Buddies, called Tom after watching Forrest Gump and said, “Man, when did you learn to act?” He didn’t know Tom had it in him.
I love watching these reactions to Forrest Gump. It reminds me of how good of a movie it was. One of my fav's.
That kid is set up for life. Heir to a very wealthy fortune. And the object of unconditional love.
and most likely Forest is not the biological father, smh
@LesleyWelsh-eb8cm of course he is. Jenny wouldn't lie to Forrest about that. She really does love Forrest. He was just to much love for her broken mental state to handle at the time. It takes a long time to deal with sexual abuse. Also remember that the day she left, he went running and didn't stop for three years. As soon as she could find him again she sent him the letter to come to her. She apologized for her behavior and was probably about to tell him about Lil Forrest when the boy got home.
That trail off of, “Is he smart? Or is he,…..” makes my heart break, probably knowing he was going to say “or is he like me?” 💔😫 Forrest knew who he was from the jump.
Tom Hanks's acting without any speech, is another level
"I don't know much, but I do know what love is."
He's always known his limitations--and his abilities.
this scene has always hit me the hardest.🥺
One of my greatest fears was that any children I bore would endure my personal struggles. Over the years I have learned to love myself-appreciate my uniqueness, and I now celebrate all that they are-including the parts that previously vexed me.
I love how so many recognize Haley Joel Osmond but none can place him.
I cry every time I see this clip. His concern over his son having to go through what he goes through. It's sad, loving, very touching.
The number of people who speak over “Is he smart, or is he like me…” is maddening.
I can't remember the last time their were 3 classic epics up for Best Picture at the Oscar. You had Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption.
Yep. And then there are years when deeply flawed films win Best Picture. I won't mention any years lest I step on any toes, but yes, it sure was a tough category in 1995.
You were right to put Cinebinge at the beginning. They had the most emotional reaction. Some of the reactors totally gloss over how brilliantly Tom hanks performed the “Is he Smart?” scene. Hanks was *in* the character and felt those emotions along with Forrest (even tho Forrest isn’t real). It probably takes the cake for the greatest bit of acting ever performed in cinema.
Tom Hanks is the greatest ever. The West he delivers that "is he smart?" Live. Brought tears to my eyes
This movie was a roller coaster thats for sure. Laughs...tears...wonder...it tugged at every emotion there was. Best movie ever.
Dude fightin back MAD tears in front of his gf @ 4:24. Lol.
Brother I came in here to comment that exact thing! If you listen closely, you can hear him swallow down the tears!
good man. smart man. take notes.
@@keyholer4664 If you cant cry in front of the woman you are with, you are in the wrong relationship.
Jenny has been doing her utmost to avoid being his girlfriend for this entire movie. So don't go nuts with that GF thing.
@@martinishotshe was talking about the reactor dummy 😂
This film was very emotional. Incredible movie, with incredible acting, as well. Appreciations for sharing this!
This scene hits harder when you finally become a parent. I cried like a baby
Alot of people dont realize that Jenny was interrupted from telling Forrest about Lil Forrest by their son's arrival. She apologized for treating him as she did because she knew she had committment issues because of her tragic childhood.
For those whose first reaction is to ask why Jenny deprived Forrest of seeing his son until now. : First, she is introducing them now. Forrest didn't find out about it some other way and catch her, she initiated this meeting. So let's at least give her credit for that.
Second, he went running and was continually on the road for over 3 years immediately after the conception. By all accounts, he went running in 1976, Little Forrest was born in 1977, and this meeting takes place in 1981, when the child is 4, less than 2 years after he stopped running.
Third, Jenny has been dealing with an unfairly cruel and toxic childhood her entire life, including the multiplied effects of a lifetime of drugs and poor choices that were a direct result of that childhood. She has just gotten her life together since the pregnancy (realize most people in that situation never do), watching Forrest's running in the media while a waitress and mother. She likely went through more than a little self-doubt as to whether approaching Forrest during that year or so since he stopped running would be seen as her trying to use him somehow. Remember, she's spent her life loving Forrest, yet thinking herself not good enough for him. She also sees him as innocent and vulnerable, while she likely casts her love for Forrest as something impure, and like her father, taking advantage of an innocent. She keeps running from Forrest to protect him, from herself! She was all messed up before this meeting, as she said, gradually coming out of a lifetime of pain and self-flagellation, and would have been no good for Forrest (either of them) until she finally confronted and fixed all that wrong-headed thinking.
Fourth, she's just gotten a diagnosis that's a death sentence, in terms of the medicine of the time. This has served, along with the reality of her own motherhood, instead of causing her to go to pieces, to crystallize her resolve to finally put away her remaining self doubts, reunite with Forrest in the time they have left, and give him the gift of introducing him to his son.
Unlike those who see only fault and blame in Jenny, I know how Forrest would react. He would see his son, as he grows up through all the years to manhood, perhaps partnering with Lt. Dan in the family business, as Jenny's greatest gift she ever gave him. Better than running shoes.
Thank you. So very well said.
A lot of people get mad at Jenny for distancing herself from Forrest. But she just never felt worthy of anything because of the abuse she suffered as a child. It wasn't until she gave birth that she started to feel some self-worth and began putting her life back together.
This scene is what won Tom Hanks an Oscar for best actor for this movie and it always hits me so hard because I understand Forrest in this scene completely I want nothing more than to be a father but I fear the possibility of passing on what I have to them I’ve had a hard life because of what I got and I don’t want anybody else to suffer through what I’ve had to suffer through
I am not a Jenny fan but when some people say that she should have told Forest about little Forest, she could not have. Forest went for a three year run when she left and with this being the 1990's, he had no cell phone. When he got home he found her letter and then found out. I hope that this helps.
Guys, don't worry about the waterworks. This part starts mine every time I watch it. I wasn't surprised, but I was.
Real men cry too.
Thank you for this emotional compilation
A young attractive female will friend zone 99 percent of the males that she will encounter. In fact , ninety percent min will literally be invisible to her. They may.
Have a certain usefulness , but that's it. There is nothing unusual about jenny's actions Where
We should single her out. Because these two met at the age of I think 8 the audience built up in their minds that they are just meant to be Together. They heard forest say the jenny decided she was meant to be a famous singer. Yet somehow in everybody's mind, Jenny is supposed to want a really, really simple. Basic life which is what Forrest Will have with or without money. I have practically never met a young beautiful woman who was not aming high And later was forced to change expectations after a sufficient amount of years. Everyone needs to the know decisions of jenny are not really all that unusual. A single mother In many many cases is going to drop all Superhigh standards requiring a Chad.
When she finds herself a Single mother. Usually it is always a chads Baby and some guy that she turned down years ago Gets to be the sucker She will latch on too.
To have A dependable provider.
F*cking masterclass in acting
"He's the most beautiful thung I've ever seen" gets my tears rolling.
Man, I’m not sure what makes me sadder, this or Forrest going back into the jungle for Bubba, only for Bubba to die in his arms. I cry just thinking about that scene to this day.
I really appreciate your channel. You try to include the most sincere reactions and you give credit to the original reactors. This is the channel I would produce if I created content. Thank you.
Superb acting by Tom Hanks, as usual.
I think she waited to tell him because she had HIV and probably wanted to make sure her boy wasn't infected so when she was sure little Forest was gonna live healthy she told him Because if she told him righ away and little Forest contracted HIV during birth she knew it would have killed Forest to see his little boy die. 😢
The second that Jenny says the words "you're his daddy forrest,"you can tell the first thought in his head is "Please god don't let him be like me." It kills me that he has been perfectly aware of his disabilities throughout the whole film and his first reaction upon hearing he's become a father is abject terror that his child is going to have that same life.
No one seems to get that the day she left his house in the taxi (before she knew she was pregnant) That Forrest went running - no phone, no internet - he disappeared for 3 years. As soon as he got back she wrote to him to come and visit her.
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She never should have left. That’s the point. She caused his run.
@@IndyTravelGuide This is like saying she could not find a certain famous sports star in 1994 during a bronco chase. Forest is getting that kind of attention for weeks during his run.
@@martinishotwhile she is working full time to support her child. Speaks more about her character that she didn’t go chasing him down like a desperate groupie because he was famous. She wrote him a letter.
@@JPuReTaLeNt Yes has known him since age 8, Was proposed marrage by him. You are so in tune and so understanding of what a groupie is. If she went to CNN or another media with photos of them covering 30 years asking them to take her to him they or somebody would do it for an exclusive. You know that is what would happen or do you not even understand how media works. Females freindzone guys all the time.This was that going on for many years. But when she got the terrible news she knew reaching out to him was the right thing.
“ I’m probably going to need a tissue”. 8:35 Yep, me every single time.
And not only a single tissue either..
See Jan Go was the best. You could tell they truly got the implication that Forrest knew the whole time he was disabled and was worried that Forrest Jr. could be too.
I think I remember that she didn’t think she deserved someone as nice as him, so after their one night stand she ran off, not to mention what she went through in her youth :(
Forrest Gump is a horror movie for men who arent into simping.
Jenny was hurting. She was abused. There wasn't nearly the awareness about how to handle this stuff back then
You need awareness to be able to tell someone that you had a child for them? What? 😂 Jenny took advantage of Forrest for nearly his whole life and then robbed him of seeing his child grow up from a baby. She's genuinely a horrible person.
@Dafroman01 Wow. Bots do better at parsing text than you do.
Something that I don't hear mentioned often is that while Forrest may not have been smart and had a low IQ, he had an enormous ability to connect with anyone he met face to face. That leads me to believe that he has an incredible EQ (Emotional Quotient as opposed to IQ or Intelligence Quotient).
And that’s why America loves Tom Hanks. An amazing performance.
My husband always knows when I'm watching another Forrest Gump reaction bc when this scene comes on 9 times out of 10, I scream "Because he was RUNNING!!" He rolls his eyes & mutters "Another 1? really?"
I understand the generation gap but come on, cell phones were still a WHILE away
It's not a generation gap issue. Even when the movie came out there was a LOT of people who had an immediate gut reaction to the scene. It takes time to sit with the scene unless you've been through it yourself. That's what changed people's mind back then and that's what changed people's mind today.
@@Lunch_Meat You don't seem to understand the comment. It refers to all the reactors who ask why Jenny didn't contact Forrest earlier. The reactors miss that there were no cell phones back in the day.
@@libertyresearch-iu4fy aaaand you seemed to have missed my point which is that it's not just a cell phone issue because even back then people were saying she could have done SOMETHING since he was such a public figure.
@@Lunch_Meat You're right, and no one in this world, regardless of age or 'generation', can claim to correctly absorb absolutely everything in a good movie with a complex narrative in one sitting. Who among us hasn't thought "Oh now I get why he did this", or "I missed this clue before" or "hey she always wear pants and never a dress, maybe it signifies something about her character" etcetera, when we rewatch a movie. Also, many of these reactors are young. They're on a learning curve too, just like we were/are.
Anyway, you're right, back in 1995 it took me quite some time to process the story and make complete sense of it. Besides, these reactors all know the story takes place in the pre-cellular era - they're not completely clueless about that.
@@dogsmusicbookstravelscience well said
First time I've seen Asia cry during a movie reaction. :)
This scene breaks grown man. Me too. And I think it's the manliest thing ever.
Agree. Though to me it's one of those situations where we shouldn't separate the sexes in terms of emotional responses. It's simply human to be moved to tears by scenes like these. I feel sorry for anyone who suppresses his tears because of the fear of being labeled a 'softy' or whatever. It cannot be healthy.
Tom Hanks is a Phenomenonal actor.
Sorta personal story but ill share anyway
I have autism, the only one in my family who has it. When my sister got married and had her first boy i was so happy for her because when we were little she always talked about having kids. Im not good with kids but i love my nephews (she had two boys). One day we go put and have dinner somewhere and she tells me she was starting to think my first nephew has autism. I didnt show it but my heart sank. I was really upset and scared because my life is a struggle with what i have and its frustrating when ur always around ppl who dont understand you. He hasnt been tested but i hope he doesnt just so he doesnt have to go thru what i did. And even if he does id love him no matter what
(Small note: i believed my autism was the start of something on our family dna and that it would strike another family member down the family tree. Kinda like skipping one person and hitting the next. My sister is preggers again and this time it might be a girl. Really happy she finally got a boy and a girl :) hope eveyrone is having a blessed day and sorry for the long comment)
Man, as a Dad it’s all i ever want is for my kids to be better in all ways and not have the shortcomings I have.
Jenny wasn't able to introduce Little Forrest to his daddy bc his daddy was running across the country the entire time, from day after insemination to this meeting. Jenny didn't keep his son from him; she simply couldn't track him down, quite literally. Remember: No tech. The math maths.
All these cuties struggling to remember Haley Joel Osment's name. This was charming to watch.
Folks like to trash Jenny, for not telling Forrest that he was going to have a son. However, just like with Forrest's letters to Jenny from Vietnam (Returned to Sender, due to no deliverable address), Jenny had no way to get a letter or phone call to Forrest. He was off running across America for three-plus years.
Yeah no way to reach him... Except the news and fans literally TRACKED HIM his entire run. They knew exactly where he was and where he was going. Did you miss that part of the movie...? In this clip alone she SHOWS HIM SHES BEEN FOLLOWING HIM
@@IDiggPattyMayonnaise true but she has a kid to look after, and those folks can abandon their responsibilities or it was their job to follow him. Not trying to excuse her behavior but i doubt most single mothers are able to chase down someone like Forrest
@@IDiggPattyMayonnaise Okay, how was she supposed to do that? You think the USPS is going to track him down and deliver it to him? What world are you living in? The newspaper and magazine clippings are at least a couple of days old by the time they go to print. A newspaper may say he's at one location, but by the time she reads it, he's long gone. The best anyone could be back then, was a few days behind. "THEY TRACKED HIM HIS ENTIRE RUN" is hearsay. That point was never stipulated in the movie.
@IDiggPattyMayonnaise it's obvious that you were born after the invention of internet and cell phones. The articles she showed were monthly publications so if she went where the articles are from she would only be 3-4 weeks late.
Yeah, the whole trashing Jenny thing didn't start until the youngest millennials and Gen z grew up.
anyone who thinks Jenny is the villain in this movie, is an actual IRL villain
I can’t handle people who are not crying at this scene!
This is the part of the movie that when your friends try to talk through it you scream SHUT UUUPPPPPP
The most infamous scene responsible for many an ugly cry😂. Including my own ❤...
"Is he smart or is he like...?" For the first time in his life he saw his intelligence as a burden...only in fear of passing it on his son 😢😢😢
Also? Why do people keep forgetting Forrest was gone for 3 years so Jenny couldn't tell him about his son 😢😢😢😢
Jenny, the biggest villian
Jenny needed that time to get clean and sober.
Saddest part about this scene is that the boy is probably not Forrest's actual son.
Jenny was all over the place with many different men
“There’s nothing you have to do…” Although I’m dying of AIDS.
Could someone enlighten the youngins watching this that in the 90s we didn't have cell phones so if you decided to spend 4 years jogging across the country, there was no way for a woman you slept with to let you know that she was pregnant. When Forrest says he got her letter she responded "I was wondering about that" so she must have written it a long time ago. It was different times, kids.
This is a masterpiece. The film is art.
I have a difficult time spending the effort.
Most people i talked about this movie doubted that it's really his kid. People got such a bad opinion of Jenny that they think she lied and used him until the end...
He was running for over 3 years, she obviously couldn't get in touch with him, there were no cell phones back then.
Logistics wasn't the problem for Jenny not letting Forest know.
There was that thing a TELEPHONE! HELLO. Light's are on, but nobody's HOME!
@@RansomHollywoodYes, the famous single telephone that stretches across every state and has one phone number. We've all seen it.
Super inefficient. Glad they finally found another use for it.
Yeah, that's right.That's why we see ten to twenty people following him at all times across the country.
She also seems to be making an amends through her words and actions(living amends). It implies to me that she may have been working a good 12 step program.
People hate on Jenny and say she should have told Forrest about Junior. However remember she is an abused child and spent her life running. She was probably told she was a burden on her father for years and than she internalized it. She thought she would hold Forrest back. And as an abused child she thought her child would also hold him back (probably). It wasn't until she got herself into a good place that she could look at her life objectively. She probably got therapy as well.
I don't think it's possible for Tom Hanks to do a bad job. For my money, there's no better actor in Hollywood.
*THIS* is the empath test. Anyone who hated Jenny is *not* an empath. God gave her a Forrest bc she needed it so desperately. He was the only love in her life before their child was born. And she got her life together to be a good mother for Little Forrest. That's literally all a man can ask of a woman... be a good, loving and stable mother for his child. Jenny did that. Give her her credit for overcoming the worst of life, to give her child the best she could give him. 💛🌻
I love this. Thank you. I’ve always struggled with people who couldn’t understand why Jenny did the things that she did. Forrest always being there for her taught her that she could love herself. To me, she’s the tragic figure of this story.
💯 Folks that hate Jenny lack the depth to see the moral complexity of her character. Like it’s some big mystery to people why the woman sexually and physically abused by her father for years might be a little damaged, and is also a monster for not dating someone mentally challenged just because they’re the protagonist.
@ thanks for hitting on the mentally challenged part. That part also bothered me as well. If this relationship had been reversed - if Jenny was the mentally challenged person - I think people wouldn’t be so quick to want to see them in a romantic relationship together.
And what exactly did Forest get for all of his work. An illegitimate child.
@@EverythingisH8speech “he’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” I don’t think “illegitimate” is how his character would feel about having a child with the woman he loved immensely, and with the exception of his mother, the only woman that ever showed him any kind of love. Just my opinion
Jenny is the greatest villian. Ever.
You do realize that the letter he got may have arrived a couple of years ago while he was on the road?
Jesus Christ does no one watched the movie, he was running way over 3 years 🙈
5:57 : this is the concept of the movie
It's funny that no one knows the kid's name. lol Or the movie he's most known for. Haley Joel Osment and a few years later he would be Cole in "The Sixth Sense". Also, he some how still has the exact same face in his 30's. lol
Underrated opinion: Jenny was a villian
He refers to jenny as an angel but still thinks his son is the most beautiful thing hes ever seen.
I’d need a DNA test if I were Forest.
The actors asking why she didn't say anything to Forest... He was running across the country for years. How was she supposed to get in touch with him? He's still wearing the running shoes.
I loved the reactions until we got to the women who just don't get it. Like, Jenny had ISSUES bro and there's nothing he could've done to help her through any of that journey, as it was hers and hers alone. Also, he was running for YEARS... This was before mobile phones and the internet, people. So, yeah, he's just finding out.
What I love about Forest is that he saw and loved Jenny through all her trauma, pain, and self-sabotage. The story isn't just about Forest. Forest was fortunate to have his momma who showed him how to look at the world. She showed him that he was different but never less than anyone or unfortunate in any way and because of it, he lived an amazing life, he knew how to love, and treated people well. This is truly one of the best movies ever made. I'm disappointed to see certain people come in and judge the characters so harshly without seeing the beauty of this perfect web. Man, the '70s and '80s were just a more pure time in the world. I feel sorry for those who'll never know or understand it.
She didn't keep him from Forrest, he was away running for 4 years.
Sadly, Walker later told little Forrest that he had AIDS.
People don't realise she couldn't tell him because he was out running
They play in a another movie together that I think should be out on dvd soon
She ran away all her life
You look like a south Asian Pedro Pascal 🤩
This scene is the pychopath test. You don't at least tear up then you gotta get outside more or something bruh
Do y'all think he really is the dad? I damn hope so.
I'd like to think she didn't want to have the child of any of the shitty guys that abused her, and to stick it to them chose to carry Forrest's child, the best and purest man she's ever known. Even though she didn't actually love him romantically
Jenny selfish to the very end. If she didn't get Aids, she never would have sent that letter. Forest wouldn't have ever met his son.
The second that Jenny would tell me that that kid is MINE, I would have said, "My name is NOT Forrest--NOT Forrest Gump. BYE NOW!"
Everyone is glad you aren't named Forrest Gump.
The two women who reacted together were a little toxic, but all-in-all, it was a good compilation.
Thank You.
I named him Forrest, after his daddy.
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You’re his daddy, Forrest.
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Jenny is a villain, Forrest is a simp!
Jenny is the antagonist, anti villain of sorts. All his life she hurts him. Until the end of hers, when she needs him
She hurts herself more than him. Being distant with someone while knowing you are messed up is not villainous.
Watching the guys tear up more than the girls ❤
As a father of 2 daughters this scene hits like a speeding car, I couldn't imagine not knowing my children
@nightfangs2910 mine got taken away because of my ex. This hurts me every time. I miss mine so much.
I never don't cry at this scene.
Being moved is a universal characteristic, and I'm glad our species has evolved to understand that crying is not a character flaw in a man.