@gregloya3083 who said that? Well sometimes old movies age bad This one did not, I don t see where your problem is?

Jenny's character played a 'typical' portrayal of sexual abuse trauma and how it basically affected all her relationships for the rest of her life. (Btw, Jenny didn’t send the letters back, the postal service just couldn’t find her.)

Jenny was traumatized & it's attitudes like yours Bissute that the world can do without! How is judging & writing Jenny off any good for anyone, everybody deserves unconditional love. You heard Forrest say Jenny's Father liked "touching" & "kissing" her & her sister's all the time!!?? Put yourself in Jenny's little mind & body & try to imagine the HELL she experienced everyday from birth! Imagine a little girl, basically a baby, having to deal with a grown, smelly, drunk & violent adult male sexually molesting you, raping you on a regular basis! -And that is supposed to be her Dad?? Jenny was not a bad person & your "Victim Shaming" is an atrocity!! “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged.” [Btw, Boats are females, they're always referred to as a "She"].

Hi Bisscute, just found your channel!🙂Most female reactors are not really fond of Jenny, well more so toward the end of the film.

@gregloya3083 Alright let me put it like this When one thinks about films that have "aged well" one thing they kinda have in common is that they have captured what it means to be, or feels like to be, a human being. Technology and film making techniques will inevitably change and improve, but you know our sense of curiosity, our anxieties, feelings etc probably won't change all that much as they are what makes us human. Films that don't explore these conditions are generally doomed to age poorly; Movies that are popular and great only because of trending characteristics such a slag, phases of fashion etc will age bad due to the fact that no one will care nor understand those concepts in 30 years . I am trying to get my point without writing a novel ! Long story short THIS movie aged amazing For being OLD . it was a compliment I hope you can see my point now . Good day

Ohhhh thats so niceee Thank you for the fact

@@BissFlix you’re so adorable

@@BissFlix There's a really sweet video of Gary Sinise reacting to a video of people thanking him for his humanitarian work. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gZ2edryfq9mmoac.html

he spoke to our unit when we demobilized

23:00…. Ms. Bisscute, you’ve got a very beautiful smile, and yes, I realize how creepy that sounds, but it’s nice to see your genuine smile right here..:)

Pretty close Mr. Alfredo. President Nixon's attempt at reelection included an illegal effort to collect information about his main opponent in the 1972 election. It led to a break-in and burglary at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building, where Forrest was staying. The local police force in Washington DC was alerted to strange activity one night, and those police arrested burglars in the building, who would later be connected to the President and senior advisors by the FBI and news reporters - which led to his resignation in 1974.

It was so big that every high political American scandal now ends in -gate

Multiple presidents during this movie but your right on Watergate

Actually, Nixon had a secret source of money that was used by his secret operatives to undermine political rivals. His operatives broke into the Democratic National headquarters at the Watergate office complex with the intent of bugging the offices. A security guard interrupted the burglary and the men were arrested which started an investigation by newspapers that eventually revealed that Nixon was directly involved. Nixon resigned.

Actually the Committee to reelect the president (CREEP, not joking) broke into the Democratic national headquarters in the Watergate hotel. The coverup which Nixon was involved in was the scandal causing him to resign

Resounding yes! So much of this movie was this message.

Amazing comment. This. And thank you.

Like if you said to a woman that gets beaten by her bf to just bear it, love him despite it and have patience. Life isn't that easy, Forrest is an extreme case of purity because of his lower intelligence, he doesn't understand that things are more complicated than as he sees them, he is something like a puppy. It's ok not to be with someone who doesn't deserve you.

@@alektosapytal6478 it's a movie, way to kill the message..

People who want to put themselves in Forrest's shoes haven't paid close attention to what it's like to be in Forrest's shoes.

Exactly right! Plus, not only does she feel 'not good enough' for Forrest, but very likely Jenny thought she was abusing him, in the same way she had been abused. Those who have suffered at the hands of another person often try to make sense of what has happened to them by taking on the guilt of their attacker. Their fear of lack of control is so strong, so profound, they'd rather see themselves at fault, because at least that brings any solution to the situation back within their reach. They 'must have screwed up somehow', they think, because something so awful coming at them, unmerited, random, unpredictable, is too horrible to contemplate. In Jenny's case, she realized that as a child, she couldn't have influenced her father, but the desire to find some fault in herself and make some part of the pain fixable was so strong, she convinced herself she had inherited his predilections for abusing sexually someone weaker, emotionally younger. So, Jenny's dad took advantage of her when she was a child, and now here she was 'taking advantage' of a childlike man, who didn't even 'know what love is'. She was protecting Forrest by removing from his life a 'monster' like herself, daring to have romantic feelings toward this good person who, while lovable, was unable to reciprocate love, being forever a child (or so she thought). Jenny was disgusted with herself for having the audacity to indulge in romantic feelings for someone like Forrest. As she told the cab driver, she wasn't running from anything. It was the morning after the night before, and in the cold light of day, in her mind, she was removing a threat from poor Forrest -- herself.

Jenny saw Forrest as a childhood friend first-and-foremost, also she was his friend when nobody else was and long before he became rich

Jenny's character portrays what many victims of abuse go through in life when they don't get proper treatment and therapy. Going from abusive relationship to abusive relationship. Not being able to love themselves, running away from people who treat them well, because internally feel they don't deserve love and at the same time fear the love will become betrayal, like his father's did. Forrest seems to understand how damaged and hurt she is when he says "some times, there are just not enough rocks". I don't know what the writers had in mind, if during the three years Forrest was running she went to therapy, or if being a mother grounded her, she looked more peaceful at the end, even accepting her imminent death. There is an evident transformation in the character at the end.

BS......she used him.

@@toddjohnson271 nope, you are wrong

Also, Lt. Dan told Forrest that if he ever became a shrimp boat captain then he’d be an astronaut, so by walking on legs made of titanium alloy he had something in common with space shuttle astronauts.

lol! :D sounds kinda awesome ^^ i am from germany, the people here aren´t like that. would love to talk to strangers about stuff like that but this won´t ever happen ^^

The hard part is finding folks who can listen and not talk over you

Are you calling everyone in the American South 'below average IQ'? Because that's why he talks so openly, not because he's from the south.

Also it would've taken a lot of time and help to get herself straightened out. Probably getting pregnant was her wake-up call. She'd have had to get clean, get a job, take care of a child, STAY clean, just a lot of things. Who knows how long it took her to do all that?

@@Chanteuse66 I think when she left after they slept together, she had already made the decision to get better. She was very calm, not panicking or anything and when the cab driver asked her where she was running off to, she answered "I'm not running." She was leaving, because she still thought Forrest was too good for her, but instead of going back to her old life, she decided to make herself worthy of his love, because with all her package she could really screw him up and she didn't want to. So, I'm guessing the baby just came as a lucky coincidence, since she had already started to straighten herself out. But still, it would be a long time to work through such a trauma and I doubt she had a therapist or something! lol

@@shinrapresident7010 Forrest did get a letter when he stopped running.

@@shinrapresident7010 That's what happens when you run for over three years.

@@pvuccino Nope Jenny never tried to contact him. She's for the streets.

haha who's the other one? :D

I never notice after watching this countless times, way to go Bisscute!

​@@rollotomassi6232 Next time you watch pay attention to any tv in a scene an important event from the time period Forrest is in. From Reagan's attempted assassination when Forrest gets Jenny's letter to the attempted assassination of Ford when Forrest learns his Mom is sick on the boat

Thank you for being here

And "Good Will Hunting", have tissues ready for both

Green mile is a good suggestion!!!

Bear is a legend. But he didn't create what Alabama is today. They were not a major powerhouse for the national title for about 20 years after him. Alabama was not a threat during the 80s and 90s. Saban is the only reason Bama is Bama. Bryant was just a HOF coach, but it was in the 60s that he peaked

@@CoryGasaway Both have 6 national championships, albeit during different eras. At the time, Bryant was considered the reason Bama was Bama. Let's hope that when the Saban era is over nobody says he "was just a HOF coach."

Yes. This is a point that a lot of these movie reactors don't quite get. Abused people often have low opinions of themselves and who they are worthy of.

This is the kind of guy she was worthy of. I had an extremely rough up bringing too, in and out of the foster system, I’ve been to juvie. In and out with DCFS my father was an abusive drunk, my mom wasn’t around. But I would never do what Jenny put forest through. Just because she had a rough upbringing doesn’t excuse her selfish, whoreish, waste of human existence.

@@Mason.Ulick60 Not everyone is the same. You can't project your responses to life on everyone else, even if you were both abused. I see the situation the opposite from you: Jenny is shielding Forrest from her life because she knows she is a mess. And promiscuity is a very common trait for women (and men to a lesser extent) who have been sexually abused.

@@JustWasted3HoursHere i understand she feels like a shitty person. Because she is, idc what any one had gone through. It’s no reason to purposely string someone along like that. I don’t give a shit what anyone says. Jenny is a disgusting waste of human space.

Jenny sucks

If you watched this movie 50 times there is something wrong with you.

same :)

@Neil McIntosh I know what I like bro. Obviously I was exaggerating but it is a great movie that I love.

So many people who encountered Forrest had tragedies in their lives, makes me wonder if he's cursed.😄 Maybe he's like Domino from the X-Men and unintentionally takes all their luck for himself.

Everyone has bad experiences. My life was far from perfect. I was never so self destructive and manipulative. All through adult Jenny's storyline she only showed up in his life when she wanted something from him. Even when they ran into eachother by accident she would get him in fights then get mad at him for protecting her. I can accept that her upbringing was bad and also blame her for her terrible choices as an adult. Even in the end. She had a kid with Forest and said nothing. She most likely would have never said anything to him. She got sick and knew she was going to die. So she had no choice and again had to use forest. That's not okay. It's okay to like her but people are hard on her because she deserves it. She's manipulative and toxic. Yes you can blame it on her upbringing. But it doesn't absolve her of her choices. Your upbringing only matters as much as you let it.

@@EazyDoesitxD "All through adult Jenny's storyline she only showed up in his life when she wanted something from him." What exactly did she want from him, can you give an example?

@@keepernod2888 ok now I watched the movie recently but not just now so this is off memory. 1. She shows up at his house with nothing and nowhere else to go. She wants a place to stay. She has sex with him then runs away again. 2. At the end she sends him the letter knowing she's going to die and is then forced to tell him about their son because she won't be alive to take him. At no point did she try to contact him earlier so she 100% only sent that letter once she knew she had no choice. All the other times they see eachother are happenstance or he goes to see her. However even in those times we see her repeatedly put him down. Assume his feelings for her are wrong because he isn't intelligent enough to know what love is. Yes she cared about him but that doesn't negate all the horrible choices she's made.

@@EazyDoesitxD 1. She didn't stay with him for very long, so I don't think that "she needed place to stay" is a reason she came. Forrest was rich at this point, and she didn't ask him for any money. 2. Agree, she did wanted something from Forrest, but it was not for her personal gain it was for their child. Other option was foster care. No doubt, she is a very flawed character... but you made her out to be far worse than she was: "ALL THROUGH adult Jenny's storyline she only showed up in his life when she wanted something from him." "She's manipulative..." "repeatedly put him down." Yet... you barely gave one solid example for any of the claims you made. You can have your opinion of her, but I'm just not seeing what you are seeing.

@@keepernod2888 no you are choosing to ignore what you are seeing. 1. How long she stayed doesn't change the fact that she only went there when she had nowhere else to go. Forrest himself says she had nowhere else to go and that's why she went to him. 2. Again no. She could have told him about his son LONG before she realized she was dying. Again only going to him as a last resort or when she needs something and has no other options. Yes foster care isn't a better option then be with the rich father. However instead of telling him about it or contacting him or even trying to. She got her own place and kept the kid a secret until she didn't have any other choice. I didn't make her out to be anything. All of the things I said she did. She actually did. I'm not making her out to be anything. I'm just stating her actions. My words are true. Every single time she goes to him. It's because she needs something or he's the last resort because her other options either don't work or she doesn't have any other options. She did manipulate him. She did repeatedly put him down. Thinking he doesn't understand how to care for people because he's dumb or how when he gives her advice on bad people in her life she disregards it as he doesn't understand and that those people aren't like that all the time. So I say again. How are none of these claims solid when all of them are hard facts on things Jenny did and said during the movie. Did she have a bad childhood? Yes it was terrible. However that doesn't then mean that all of her shitty decisions can be absolved. No she's an adult. It is up to her what she does and doesn't do. In her case she made almost all terrible choices. So you tell me then. Can you name a single time she came to him. (Not bump into eachother like at the naked guitar show or like at the speech about Nam.) Without the situation being forced or her not having any options? Also all your doing is making excuses for her terrible choices. You aren't saying anything about how she's good. Do you know why that is? Because you cant. Jenny is a kindhearted idiot who made so many bad choices in her life that she almost died and eventually got an illness that did kill her. Forrest should get checked cuz if it was aids or something he might have it too. 🤷

Hey Rainer, I agree with you! Forrest Gump is 1 of those movies that never gets old for me! Whenever I watch it, I just find that it is SO engaging and well-acted that it feels like it is a quick watch even though the movie is almost 2 1/2 hours long. I also think it has moments that most people can relate to on an emotional level. For me Personally, I often connect with this movie because my brother actually has Autism (So Forrest and my brother can relate a bit since they are both disabled). I also just wanted to mention that I actually posted a video on my KZfaq channel that was almost like a tribute video to Forrest Gump (though I called it a Mashup). You see, there's a band named Family Of The Year, and they used their hit song "Hero" for Richard Linklater's 2014 movie called Boyhood. For my video, I used "Hero" as background music while showing various scenes from Forrest Gump. Aside from matching song lyrics with movie scenes, my intention with the video was to try and create something unique. If you have a few minutes sometime and happen to be Interested, here is a link to the video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdhdpqyas6eyiZs.html If you don't check it out, then no worries at all! I certainly will Not be offended! But Thank You So Much in advance if you do see it! I hope you Have A Great Day Today, Rainer! Please Stay Safe and Stay Awesome! 🙂🙂🙂

Yes I agree I go a little more into her character on my full lenght reaction on Patreon

Oh well. I HATE Jenny. The kid is probably not even Forrest's. 'She heard he's a gazillionaire and wanted her bastard to have a better life.

@@mattfinleylive -- He's definitely Forrest's kid. That's why they show them sitting with the head at the same angle and all of that.

@@mattfinleylive clearly not, and for her chacter it's made quite clear from the start with her troubled past, her solution to everything is to run. This is why her advice to Forest was always "Run!". In her own life everything people got close she would run. For the same reason she almost killed herself. If you've seen Good Will Hunting it's quite similar but instead of push, it's run. At the end we see that she's sorted her life out, has what looks like a nice stable job and brought up a fine young boy. It saddens me to see people hating on a character that so well illustrates the issues people who have been abused have deal with.

​@@BissFlix i agree that Jenny is a broken person and at times not a good friend to Forest Of all her mistakes I think you take away too many points on her not responding to his many letters. I dont think she was ever home to receive them and were returned to sender because they really didnt reach her, not that she was actively ignoring them.

The book was ridiculous. It was smart to make this more of a drama with a few comedy elements.

Zemeckis movies are always good. He has a style but still his films are individualistic.

I don't know why but I can watch it over and over again too! must be the different characters, adventuress and all.👍

Oh cool really? I never knew that!

Thats really kind Thank you

@@ollie511 Saw your mashup. Great choice of scenes. The music is well chosen. (I know the track from the "Scrubs" series) Personally I would have used an instrumental song... but whatever... Great job.

Yep. We hear "run Forrest run" but, really, it's Jenny doing all the running away.

Doesn't excuse her actions and not at least keeping in contact... in fact isn't the only time she came back to Forrest when she GOT AIDS??? Ur putting a nice Lil spin on it but broken ppl just break others.

@@RandyNachoManSandwich You literally just said it yourself, she's a broken person. She was broken as a child through abuse and it shaped her entire life, she constantly tells Forrest to just run because that's the only way she knows how to deal with problems in her life or things she doesn't understand. You're both saying the same thing, and they weren't 'putting a spin on it', or do you always judge people based on them not acting how you think they should? Again, she's an absolutely broken person through no fault of her own.

@@omegashinra7672 ppl can be broken and not put their issues on someone else. The way you present yourself to the world especially after going thru hardships like Jenny did makes you who you are. Truth is Jenny is weak, and repeatedly hurt a mentally challenged kid, and never had an arch of growth or change. She ran outta gas. And her engine blew. Then she came back to the tard that she now knows is rich, again only after being a single mother, ruining her life and getting aids. It doesn't matter what you've been thru. It matters how you come out the other side and how you treat others and yourself. Like I said "broken ppl break ppl" they don't have to tho.

@@RandyNachoManSandwich it was Hep C and that's just one of the many things you got wrong.

i wish people would stop trashing jenny. you wouldn't have a romantic relationship with a retarded person either. how many retarded girlfriends or boyfriends have any of you had? well, jenny didn't want one either. give her break for being like everyone else. this is one case where the movie is better than the book. in the book forrest was a big strapping. blonde lil abner type. big on braun. not much on brains. among his adventures he was an astronut with a chimp named "sue." a movie producer runs into forrest and casts him in a tarzan movie co-starring raquel welch. and he was reunited with sue on the set of the movie. sue and forrest wreaked havoc on the set eventually tearing welch's clothes off and she runs naked down the street. the movie's much better than the book. but i must admit i wouldn't object to a raquel welch nude scene. thanks for the video.

Forrest Gump had a low IQ, but he was not “retarded”.

@@ShreveportJoe ... yes, he was "functionally" retarded. he wasn't just stupid. he was developmentally retarded. i had a cousin like that. he could drive, he held jobs but he was what is known as a "high functioning" retarded person. that was the whole point of the movie. seeing the world, experiencing history through the eyes of an innocent. you tell me. would or could you fall in love with someone like forrest? you would have nothing in common. it'd be like falling in love with a perpetual 10 year old.

@@cjmacq-vg8um What I would or would not do is irrelevant. I wish you’d post your comments on the main comment thread rather than replying to me directly. I don’t want to be associated with you or your comments.

@@ShreveportJoe ... my god, man! asking what you would do was the whole point of my comment. you're trashing jenny for something you, yourself, would do. and you don't have the simple courtesy to just admit you were wrong. sheeeeesh! okee-doke. i'm outta here. take care sparky.

Yep i agree

I don t hate her but i do dislike her , I understand her situation and what she went through , I don t like that she always went back to forrest , I think i was just afraid of her hurting him which did happen the poor guy ran for 3 years . But yes I don t hate her I just think that if she knew she had this issues she should have stayed away forever . I really disliked her at the fountain/speech scene . I hope this kinda explains why I don t like her character

Yeah

People think that just because Forest is a nice guys he's simply "entilted" to Jenny's love, This is awefully judgy and wrong.

@@Deorman yeah i absolutely agree. Also, Forrest is an amazing, wonderful person, but if we all are honest for a moment, i dont think many people would choose to be in a relationship with "somebody like him" - sounds kinda bad, but its the truth.

He was running for over 3 years of that. Kid was probably 3-4 years old. She used that time to get her life together. Unfortunately it was too late as she had contracted hep c. Or aids.

@@amyjordan195 I watched this movie when it first came out & everyone I knew understood Jenny to be dying of AIDS -an unknown virus they had no answers for back in the 1980's.

i wish people would stop trashing jenny. you wouldn't have a romantic relationship with a retarded person either. how many retarded girlfriends or boyfriends have any of you had? well, jenny didn't want one either. give her break for being like everyone else. this is one case where the movie is better than the book. in the book forrest was a big strapping. blonde lil abner type. big on braun. not much on brains. among his adventures he was an astronut with a chimp named "sue." a movie producer runs into forrest and casts him in a tarzan movie co-starring raquel welch. and he was reunited with sue on the set of the movie. sue and forrest wreaked havoc on the set eventually tearing welch's clothes off and she runs naked down the street. the movie's much better than the book. but i must admit i wouldn't object to a raquel welch nude scene. thanks for the video.

It seems Forrest's line "He was a lovin' man. Always kissing and touching her and her sister..." is misunderstood by a few and taken as literal rather than code talk (for the time period) meaning her father was a child rapist. I've known several victims of child rape by a parent and they never got completely over that humility even when they seemed "normal". One I know eventually committed suicide over it in her 30s.

Stop talking like a boomer with "this generation" bullshit, some people can empathize with her and some can't has nothing to do with what year you happened to be born in.

It's not good to bottle up your emotions. If you need to cry, cry. Laugh? Laugh! These challenges are stupid IMHO.

@@dan_hitchman007 100% agree 😁

Hi J thank you so much

there is few good movies every year...Lucky Number Slevin, Kung-fu Hustle....

i wish people would stop trashing jenny. you wouldn't have a romantic relationship with a retarded person either. how many retarded girlfriends or boyfriends have any of you had? well, jenny didn't want one either. give her break for being like everyone else. this is one case where the movie is better than the book. in the book forrest was a big strapping. blonde lil abner type. big on braun. not much on brains. among his adventures he was an astronut with a chimp named "sue." a movie producer runs into forrest and casts him in a tarzan movie co-starring raquel welch. and he was reunited with sue on the set of the movie. sue and forrest wreaked havoc on the set eventually tearing welch's clothes off and she runs naked down the street. the movie's much better than the book. but i must admit i wouldn't object to a raquel welch nude scene. thanks for the video.

@@cjmacq-vg8um I agree, I love Raquel! Amazing natural woman!😁

@@cjmacq-vg8um You make a valid point!

@@alanh.7668 ... ain't that the truth! and she was a really good actor too. and appeared in several really good movies.

​@@cjmacq-vg8um "Princess Bride" and an awesome one with Jack Nicholson, who plays a man after revenge when the drunk driver that killed his child gets out of prison! I highly recommend it! anyhow, That's all I know for sure.