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When Jenny tells Forrest he doesn't know what love is, it's pure projection, she doesn't know what  love is. ❤😊

Jenny is finding men who are like her father

Saw this when it dropped in the theater. It hit hard. Got so wrapped up in it that I didn't think about the blue screen etc necessary to remove Gary Sinise's legs. Later it hit me, oh yeah he started out with legs 😂

Thanks for the reaction. Don’t have a lot of people to talk to about the movies that I love so deeply. So it really means a lot to be able to watch you guys and other people react to my favorites. Also I noticed throughout the reaction you would say this movie is basically just life distilled and I really like that. One of my favorite things about this movie is that it means so many things. It’s a love letter to the baby boomer generation, it’s speaks on the love between Forrest and Jenny, it speaks on how the people that society deems stupid or unworthy can do the most extraordinary things. It’s truly and incredible film that I feel gets overlooked.

When Jenny says "I wanna be a singer like Joan Baez". Joan Baez, that stills alive, is a great american singer, songwriter, and activist, whose contemporary folk music often featured songs of protest or social justice. Baez was girlfriend of Bob Dylan during some years. And when Jenny started to perform in the strip club, her stage name was Bobbi Dylan... and she sang Blowin' in the Wind by Bob Dylan. She also has a Baez´s poster in her room.

Good emotional reaction. One of my favorite films. This movie won so many awards. It was so popular a restaurant chain called the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co opened in 1996. I visited the very first restaurant to open in Monterey, CA that year. The menu selection is a variety of food including shrimp related dishes like Bubba spoke about. The inside is decorated with themes from the film. At the time they had a bench like in the film in front of the restaurant with a Forrest statue seated on the bench. People could take pics of themselves next to Forrest while waiting for their reservation to be called.

I think Jenny was just so deeply broken as a person. The person who is meant to protect you in this world committed the ultimate betrayal of her. And as such a little girl. She just wasn't able to cope. I do think she was trying to preserve the one bright light in her life from what she saw as her darkness. One thing she did do though was try to teach him the one and only survival tool she knew. She told him as a little girl to run and again as a teen. And again going to war. And as an adult with the shoes. Run. That's the one skill she knew. And she wanted to teach her friend her one means of protection to protect HIM.

When you said he succeeds because he just does as he's told... I think it's a little true but really it's that he takes life as it comes and doesn't get caught up in feeling sorry for himself or in negativity. He focuses on good. And by doing that he makes the people around him better. And his life is filled with the good he's cultivated. Life might actually be that simple and we're all just fighting it. Isn't that something to think about? Are we all just fighting living life well in the truest sense and if we approached it all simply and with hope and kindness we'd all be better off?

When they were children, we see that Jenny prays to be turned into birds... while still with her abusive father... we later see how, as an adult, in a scene where she attempts suicide... Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" plays. A very strong parallel. And close to the end at Jenny´s grave... birds fly. And the feather... at the beginning and at the end.

Be kinder to Jenny. She had a much worse childhood than Forest. As a small child, she and her sister were victims of physical and sexual abuse by her father. I never understood how most reactors hated Jenny.

I say this every time but it's the truth and it bears repeating. Our Mom looked EXACTLY like Sally Field in this when we were kids, seriously. And still does now as she ages it's freaky. We were convinced she had a secret movie career. I sincerely cried when she died and it may happen again this time. That's all I have to say about that...Some think Jenny is a villain in this but she's just a victim, tragically. Tom Hanks is absolutely brilliant, even when playing a local idiot. When Forrest asks "is he, is he smart?" Absolutely breaks my heart. One of the most clever, hilarious, heartfelt films ever...

"Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mamas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that".  -Forrest's silent speech

"Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it." -Bubba 🦐

I'm pretty sure Forrest was on the spectrum.  He just ended up with the cool stuff, bruh could probably do anything

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You seem to have missed the scene from 1:13:05 to 1:13:16 where we see Jenny, front and center, working as a waitress.  She even has a speaking part where she says "I'll be damned" as she sees Forrest on TV in the restaurant.   She refers to this scene later in the movie when Forrest comes to her apartment in Savanah and she says "I saw you on TV."  This scene is important because it is the earliest indication that Jenny was getting her life cleaned up after years of being "messed up" as she later admits.

46:00 THE BLACK PANTHERS HAVE NEVER BEEN OKAY WITH VIOLENCE TOWARDS WOMEN!

Bubba Gump shrimp company  really exists they have restaurants all over called bubba Gump shrimp.

Wonderful and insightful reaction and commentary. Bravo for understanding and having empathy for the character of Jenny. Jenny always loved Forrest, but the sexual abuse and psychological trauma she experienced as a child made her feel unworthy of being with Forrest - she did not want to damage his pure and innocent soul. That was why she was always running away - she was trying to protect him. Jenny was not able to tell Forrest about Forrest Jr. because he started his 3-year run the day after she got pregnant. Forrest did not have a planned itinerary, so Jenny had no way of being able to contact him by phone or mail. Jenny could only contact Forrest when he returned home. By then she was terminally ill and she wanted to ensure that Forrest Jr. would have his father to take care of him after she was gone. Also, by then Jenny had healed enough emotionally that she could finally feel worthy of Forrest’s love.

According to Tom Hanks, Forrest’s speech at the anti-war rally was "There's only one thing I can say about the war in Vietnam. Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that".

The actress Robin Wright played Jenny in "Forrest Gump" (1984) and she went on to play Claire Underwood in the television series “House of Cards” (2013-2018).

When the guy in the flag shirt (real life Abbie Hoffman),  said "right on man, you said it all" ,his point was  not for what Forrest was saying,which were just mundane things, his right on man was, there is nothing to really say about the war... Sometimes silence says more than words.
And your assessment of Jenny knowing she knew she wasn't good for him was spot on. As a psychologist it drives me nuts seeing comments on other reactor channels calling Jenny mean or awful. They don't understand that her upbringing made her that way, self destructive. It was only when Jenny finally addressed her issues she knew she could be with him. She knew all the time she loved him and loved him so much she kept her distance to protect him.