I absolutely hate Jenny the more times I've watched this movie.
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tmaj48 — 9 years ago(April 11, 2016 05:35 PM)
Forrest loved Jenny because she was the first person, aside from his mother, who was kind and friendly to him, unlike all the other kids in his town, who went out of their way to be nasty to him. For all the abuse she was going through, she still showed some decency, instead of taking out her unhappiness on him. Why not save your hate for the kids who bullied him?
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
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matty-48 — 9 years ago(May 15, 2016 06:56 AM)
I feel sorry for her. Her self esteem was so low from years of abuse. She tried to pacify those feelings with drugs. She ran to abusive partners similar to her father.
She was on a much different journey than Forrest in her life. It was neither parties' fault that their journeys did not join together until later on.
There was no therapy or help back then for childhood sexual abuse. Nobody cared. I feel so bad that she did not find happiness until it was too late. -
purplenad2004 — 9 years ago(June 06, 2016 04:48 PM)
I'm like others who've gone back and forth with her but this is the best summary for Forrest and Jenny. People always have to have someone to blame but the real blame lies with Jenny's father and then you can go back to what made him a sicko. I agree that the fact that there was no help back then for abuse and no one seemed to care or at least they didn't know how to help, Jenny dealt with the trauma by continuing self-destructive actions. She had bias towards Forrest because he was slow but her main problem with him is that she didn't know how to receive love which he tried to give her. She also may have thought she wasn't good enough for Forrest, if you notice, she's never shown to interact with his mother.
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evbug53 — 9 years ago(May 20, 2016 12:53 PM)
I believe Jenny was a character made for us to love to hate. I found myself pulling for her to find her way but yet I was like grow up and act like you have some common sense. Her upbringing makes you pity her and her choices as an adult make you loathe her.
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FrodoPotter — 9 years ago(May 31, 2016 07:37 AM)
I have been back and forth on this matter. Used to kind of like her. Then started to hate her for the way she was using Forrest. But now I am at the point that I feel very sorry for Jenny who is clearly traumatised and has had a very rough life from the start in which she could not get herself to open up for true love like Forrest would have given her.
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MisterSky — 9 years ago(June 30, 2016 03:58 PM)
She gave her son and Forrest AIDS. beep her. She was the worst thing to happen to him from the beginning to the very beep end.
I'm a great judge of character, why would you feel bad for people that work with me or live around where I do? I treat those that deserve respect with respect and can easily figure out when someone is beep putrid on the inside, much like Jenny. It wasn't just a physical thing either with her disease she was also mental as beep on the inside.
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FrodoPotter — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 07:30 AM)
They did not know what aids was at that time (like Jenny says: "some kind of virus, the doctors don't know what it is), and so also not that is was a STD.
And she was traumatised by sexual abuse in her childhood.
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barbarapaulmayer — 9 years ago(September 21, 2016 03:07 AM)
But she did say that little Forrest wasnt sick - Also we dont know for sure it was AIDS, we can only assume. Also back then they knew nothing about AIDS, not where it comes from, not how it is transmitted. So it is hardly her fault.
If you are such a great judge of character why cant you emphasise with Jenny. She was repeatedly raped from a very young age on, she was traumatized and probably suffered from PTSD.
She still managed to get into college, only to be expelled from of some barely nude pictures - I get it back then this was a great deal. After that she wanted to make a career in singing, which didnt worked out that well.
She was on the bottom of society, drugs her escape mechanism. People like you telling her she is not worth being loved made it even so much worse. If you constantly beaten up by live and men around her and everyone tells her that she is worth nothing, led her down that path of destruction.
The only guy who loved her, she ran away from because she thought she wasnt worth his love. Because at that point in life she already had so low self-esteem, she couldnt believe that someone would love her.
Everything Forrest achieved basically fell into his lap, whereas Jennys live started out at the bottom of society and every attempt to escape didnt work, because of the trauma she received in her childhood.
Ive seen people like this in real life, the trauma runs so deep that you cant handle it yourself and you continue to make bad choices, but sadly back then you had no therapy or other help. Nowadays its different, but back in 60s you had to fend for yourself and either make it or die. Jenny seemed to have gotten her life back together at some point, but only on the surface. -
deashi_2000 — 9 years ago(July 05, 2016 09:41 AM)
I thought she was a lovely character - even though she beep up time and time again once she had her child she had obviously got her self together Seriously anyone the throws the slut word around when they don't like a woman is despicable You're despicable
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boatlandmore — 9 years ago(July 24, 2016 09:57 AM)
I didn't like her choices in the film either but I understand it. My wife was abused as a child & was effected by it. No where near the extent that Jenny is in the movie, but still, that pain lingers 40 years later. Besides, Jenny is a classic tragic character, not unlike Elvis - as far as the context of the film, she HAS to die. Thats' just the way of it for someone that burns up their life so fast.
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TheFatDruidofNacyl — 9 years ago(October 27, 2016 02:34 PM)
I felt bad for her to a certain point because of the abuse she went through, but there is a point in your life that you need to set the baggage down and get on with your life. The fact that she had forest from day one to be fully supportive of her emotionally and loved her unconditionally, she should have stayed with him sooner.
I love the movie but do have a hard time watching it again because of her character.
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