Like its to the point where i'm glad the slut dies. Poor Forrest. Indeed only an idiot could love someone like that. I C
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!!!deleted!!! (49761343) — 9 years ago(May 05, 2016 06:47 AM)
It's quite easy to hate on a washed-up-hippie stereotype, whose character was engineered by the writers to hate on.
Yup. Exactly. This is another reason why I can't stand this movie. People who think Jenny is supposed to be a sympathetic figure don't get it. Forrest Gump is an anti 1960s counterculture film. Jenny is supposed to represent everything that the writers felt was terrible about the counterculture. According to them, they had no morals, were self-centered, selfish, and "damaged goods."
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mitchco10 — 9 years ago(September 14, 2016 07:02 PM)
Yes , I'm tired of defending that I hate this movie! I think it totally trivializes the 60's , and makes the Forrest Gump character , a total moron the hero! Is it supposed to be a depiction of "The American Dream" , and how anyone can make it in America? beep
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mitchco10 — 9 years ago(September 14, 2016 07:07 PM)
Yes , I'm tired of defending that I hate this movie! I think it totally trivializes the 60's , and makes the Forrest Gump character , a total moron , the hero! The only realistic character in the movie is the Lt. Dan character., played by Gary Sinese. Is this movie supposed to be a depiction of "The American Dream" , and how anyone can make it in America? I CALL B.S!
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PenTheater — 9 years ago(April 03, 2016 11:06 AM)
I don't think the story was meant to make you hate her, but to just think that maybe she wasn't good enough to be with Forrest by the time they were adults.
But of course Forrest would never even have thought of looking for someone else.
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MisterSky — 9 years ago(May 21, 2016 06:07 AM)
They didn't want you to hate her lmao.
"She's definitely an unsympathetic and flawed character so your dislike of her is what the writers wanted. How does it feel to be so easily manipulated?"
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Picnic10 — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 04:17 AM)
What happens with girls like Jennyin real life is that an older man, possibly in a well paid job but lacking moral fibre and substance himself, will give some approximation of love. Possibly some material comfort by default but the man doesn't actually share her needs. The very best fit for Jenny would be Forrest but he doesn't carry enough status or 'devil may care' attitude in 'normal' society's eyes for her to feel that he would be her Prince Charming. As a result, like maybe 95% of people, she never allows herself to be sincerely charmed by the sincerely charming which Forrest is. Forrest Gump may look like an anti-liberal movie but it is also anti-conservative. Forrest is really a kind of revolutionary in conservative clothing - he uses his guise of naivety to break down prejudice on the basis of race, disability, yet few ever really do much for him. He is Jesus-like (please watch the Peter Sellars film 'Being There' as a kind of precursor to Forrest Gump). He's unfairly underestimated or demeaned time and time again, even by Lt Dan whose life he saved. In the modern world, he is a sacrificial lamb - true happiness can never come his way because that would depend on the direction of the world truly valuing, nurturing and rewarding local, homespun, values. The cruel irony is that he has wisdom yet noone except the dying like his mother and Jenny has had their own egos weakened enough in to a position of no return to truly want to see it. There are real Forrests, of ALL intellects (damn that emotional intellect doesn't count to so many) in all places but probably mostly where technology has been given priority over face to face kindness. Some will kill themselves, even more will feel that society is wishing them dead each day, at the same time as 'society' ceases to truly be worthy of the name and even at the same time as some people call these Forrests 'legends'.
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purplenad2004 — 9 years ago(June 06, 2016 04:33 PM)
Actually, Forrest's mother seemed to always believe in him which is why when they were walking home and people were staring at him because of his braces, she told him to not let anyone tell him they're better than him. She then pushes for him to be able to go to public school instead of being thrown into a special school. On her deathbed, she was mainly giving him some wisdom to help him see that he was capable of living on without her.
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RomanceNovelist — 9 years ago(December 13, 2016 08:05 PM)
The final scene wasn't about Jenny, it was about the goodness of Forrest, who touched every life he came into contact with. Yet the person who touched his life was the most and had the most impact on him was the most flawed and unlikeable character in the movie. IMHO, Forrest deserved better. Jenny was tragic, but she was aware of how much she hurt Forrest over the years, and even denied him the first five years of life with his "son" (who I'm assuming she sired with someone else then brought him to forrest when she realized she was going to die.
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kstenbch — 9 years ago(December 26, 2016 10:14 PM)
Adolescence is traumatic, for most people, and the character of Jenny, her childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood is an absolute personification of that trauma. I saw this movie when it came out, and I felt sorry for her. It was only later in life that I thought that she was mean to Forrest, perhaps crueler than those who call him stupid and treat him dismissively. Jenny finally getting her life together was her growing up, as most people do. Until she grew up, she was never going to be able to appreciate Forrest and their relationship. As for Lt. Dan, I agree that he ends up being the antithesis of the conservative good soldier, when he realizes that Forrest saved his life, and that the only way to repay him is to treat Forrest the way he [Forrest] wants to be treated, it is actually a validation of empathy and liberalism. It can be difficult to see these things in this movie, but then I'm a History and English Teacher. I see the flaws in this movie, and to me it's symbolic of people. We're not perfect either. Some people never grow up, and some have real traumas in their pasts that slow the process. . . .
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zdemnek — 9 years ago(July 05, 2016 12:44 PM)
Assuming people are disgusting and horrible based on 1 opinion. That seems like something a disgusting and horrible person would do.
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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?
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