I absolutely hate Jenny the more times I've watched this movie.
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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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lumosnight — 9 years ago(October 31, 2016 01:08 AM)
For me it's the opposite. The more times I watch this movie, the more I feel sorry for her.
I used to think that Jenny was a manipulative user, but then I realized that she was the typical immature girl who was dealing with her problems in a very wrong way.
She was abused by her father, didn't have many friends growing up (because why would she hang out with someone unpopular like Forrest, even her roommate in college didn't like Jenny). Jenny was a very lonely person who tried to fill up this hole by dating guys who were bad boys. She had no mother figure to teach her how to respect herself.
Jenny was obviously attracted to Forrest, but she thought that he would "hold her back" from fitting in and that pretty girls like her should not waste their time with handicapped people like him. While that is a shallow way of thinking, pretty much everyone thinks that way. Would you rather been seen dating a dunce or a normal partner?
However, she was truly curious to see if Forrest was attracted to her, so she encouraged him touch her breast in the dorm. She wasn't disgusted, she was happy and flattered.
If Jenny was a truly bad person, she would demand child support once she gave birth to Forrest's baby. After all, he was a millionaire. But she didn't. She let him live his life and only contacted him when she was about to die and wanted her child to be cared for by his father. -
Damien Thorn 666 — 2 years ago(March 05, 2024 02:31 AM)
Jenny enduring a childhood of sexual abuse was part of what lead her on the debauched path she ended up taking. The trauma from these events alone complicates how Jenny perceives love, while Forrest’s definition of it remains pure and boundless. Quite simply, Jenny does not feel she deserves to be loved — at least, not in the way that Forrest is ready to love her.
With her total lack of self esteem, she runs away to abandon Forrest as a way to protect him. Jenny was damaged, but she’s not the villain people make her out to be.
“There are no atheists in foxholes, eh?”-Keith Jennings from the Omen.