India......Jenny grew up in an abusive childhood.

You gotta remember, Jenny's childhood was less than ideal. She doesn't know what true love is, and therefore, she runs from Forrest, the one person who loves her.

Everyone gets mad at jenny for not telling Forrest about being a father sooner. But remember he was running across the country for 3 years and theres no cell phones so she had no way to reach him! I like to think when she left that last time, she went to rehab or therapy ro get the help she needed and thats how she turned her life around. Thank you for reacting!

No one ever understands that Jenny didn't feel like she deserved to be loved. She felt that Forrest was too good for her.

I never understood why folks always got mad at jenny. And im a man😂...she wasnt triflin, and idk why folks act like she was sleepin wit a bunch of men, this story went well over 20 yrs and they only showed her wit a couple of men...i just think folks get so attached ti forrest, they just dog her but totally ignore her trauma

Jenny felt like SHE wasn't worthy of HIM! She knew she was messed up and he deserved better than her!

Running is a theme... Jenny told Forrest to run from the bullies, to run in Viet Nam. Jenny ran from the sexual abuse from her father..Both stopped running. You also have to remember times were different in the 60's , 70's etc. And Smoking? We smoked everywhere ..work, hospitals (nurses/drs/patients), airplanes, movie theaters etc

Remember Jenny saying how she prayed that God would turn her into a bird & she could fly away? Then Forest speaking to her, headstone, and a flock of birds flew away....yeah...cool

Jenny needs hugs! ❤

Even as a kid, I felt bad for Jenny. Then I got into mental health and I felt even worse for her. She's been so messed up from such a young age. Obviously that's not fair to our hero, Forrest, but we're all a product of our experiences and our genetics. It just took Jenny that long to realize that she didn't need to run anymore. I'm sure her AIDS or whatever auto-immune disorder she had aided in that decision. This is such an underrated movie. Everyone sort of dismisses it now, like they do Titanic, but after 25 years, I can at least understand why in the case of that movie. But with Forrest Gump, I don't think it gets enough praise. It's Robert Zemeckis directing another masterpiece. He was the guy behind Back To The Future, Romancing the Stone (great chick flick) and so many other fantastic movies.

Jenny was molested and abused by her dad. Forrest has the mind of a child. She's been traumatized and has to work through it, but also recognizes the child in Forrest. Her being with him like that would be like taking advantage of a child, in her mind.

He was running for 3 years, so she couldn't tell him about little forest until after he came back home, just like none of Forest's letters made it to her from the Army and they were return to sender because she was always on the run and never had an address and didn't get the letters. Communication was more difficult back then.

There is just nothing that can describe the shattering of the soul that happens in the black hole of sexual abuse for any tender little child like Jenny was. It was surprising that she was so nice to him when they met considering the home life she had to endure. Jenny couldn't marry Forrest until she healed from her sexual abuse, and her behavior was typical of someone who's been abused. She always told Forrest to run, and that is what she did most of her life - running away from the abuse using drugs and sex. That's why she told him she was no good for him. She lucked out that he faithfully loved her all his life and then was able to spend the end of her life with him. Hers was a much happier ending that happens with many abuse victims.

1. The music rights alone must have cost a small fortune💲💲 2. Kurt Russell did the voice for Elvis. 3. IRL Sally Fields is only 10 years older than Tom Hanks. 4. Having gotten his degree Forrest would have gone into the Army as an officer like Lt. Dan. Not a recruit. His ASVAB kills that. 5. He actually saved Lt Dan twice. Once in the field and again to get him out of his post war funk and Dan turned his life around. 6. Normally an enlisted Army person would be fully aware of his/her separation date. 5. Jenny did indeed give him the best gift ever (it wasn't the shoes)😋 8. Jenny died of Hep-C from dirty needles when she was in Caliphony.. 9. It's ironic that Lt. Dan told the guys to take care of their feet because he loses his. 10. At the rally Forrest says, "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." 11. You have had a ride through recent US history and culture. From Elvis, John Lennon, Abby Hoffman to Vietnam and Watergate. Even the jogging craze of the 70's. About the only thing left out was streaking. 13. "Sometimes I guess there're aren't enough rocks" 14. Haley Joel Osmentt/Forrest Jr. steals the show in "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis. 15. Often when he's finishing a segment about death, he ends it by saying "That's all I have to say about that" 16 Keep in mind if Jenny wasn't wasting her life seeking men like her father and was with Forrest he/we wouldn't have had this incredible journey.

"Are we supposed to run from everything Jenny?" Crazy you caught that right off the jump. Thats all Jenny ever did unfortunately.

I was a kid in the 70s. Adults smoked everywhere!! Teachers didn't smoke in class, but they smoked up the teachers' lounge to a fog. People smoked in theaters, restaurants, sporting events, hospitals!, airplanes, trains, cars, the park, the office-- everywhere! My dad smoked, but he never smoked around us. I "caught" him once during a ski trip when I came into the ski lodge.

I don't think I've ever seen a movie SO well put together and as moving as this. It hits all the beats and sends beautiful messages throughout. It's literally a perfect movie.

A "click" is slang for a kilometer. The "pig" is slang for the M-60 (machine gun). Lieutenant Dan was experiencing PTSD related survivor's guilt. Rice paddies and the adjacent irrigation ditches are feces, snake, mosquito, and leach infested. Forrest and his unit were operating in the Mekong Delta (wetlands, swamps, and marshes). Lastly, the monsoon season afforded GI's relative safety because of the flooding and submerged terrain. Bad weather will literally cease all combat operations.

Just missed my favorite line, "I'm sorry I had a fight at your Black Panther Party". The innocence of Gump speaking the truth. Violence isn't the answer.

People could smoke everywhere, the Dr’s, the hairdressers, the cinema everywhere. My parents would smoke in the car with us in it with the windows up….. Those were the days.

I love the little things Forrest says like he's learned them from TV and other media, like when Jenny tells him she's sick, and he asks if she's got "a cough due to cold." 😅🤣

This movie is a major history lesson going from the 50s to the 80s. It would take pages to list all the accurate details in this. If you have this and Don McLean’s American Pie you pretty much have a grasp on more than 30 years of history.

I actually love Jenny. She had such trauma as a young girl. Her own father molested her. That will screw with someone for their whole lives. She didn’t feel worthy of herself. But after some time she learned to love herself.

Tom Hanks won the Oscar for this role. Most deserving. Did you notice little Forrest was Hailey Joel Osment, from The Sixth Sense? He was a good actor even at that young age. You should watch other movies with Tom Hanks like Apollo 13. Lt. Dan was in that movie as well. They did 3 movies together. You already saw The Green Mile. As for Jenny, she felt that she was never good enough to be with him. Her father really messed her up. She also seem to get into relationships with guys just like her father, which happens to some abuse victims. Bringing Forrest back to her life gave him the best thing she could, little Forrest.

An interesting thing about the character is, according to Hanks, the young version of him really talks like that so he was with a speech team all day on the first day trying to get him to not talk like he does. Hanks says he kept passing him and the kid just wasn’t getting it so eventually he said why don’t I just talk like him instead of him talking like me and that’s where the forest Gump voice was born.

The whole idea that Jenny only want him when she is broke and only want him to take care of her and her son because she got sick, makes no sense and is also disproven in the movie by her rejecting his marriage proposal, saying that he would not want someone like her, when she could have married him for his money when he was both rich and famous. We also get to see, that she was keeping a scrapbook with newspaper articles of all his achievements, because she was so proud of him, but just did not think of herself to be worthy. The reason she do not tell him about her being pregnant and having his child, is because she want to break her personal "curse" on her own, and also because she notice on TV that he is out running, so there would be no way of reaching him anyway, and she finally do get her life together, but when she then got sick and was going to die, she had no other option than to tell him that he has a son, so they can get married, for her to be sure he can adopt and at least keep his own son.

I watched a few reaction videos of this movie and I often heard some surprise that Forrest tells his story to everyone seating on the bench. In fact, this happened to me plenty of times while I was waiting for the bus... Intellectually handicapped peoples do that a lot (start talking to perfect strangers).

i have a terrible memory, but is this a previously uploaded reaction? maybe from your other channel?

People like Jenny and I can hardly love ourselves let alone accept it when we see it right in front of us, it’s hard to see the blessings through our chaos. Both my parents abandoned me as a child. I turned 40 last September and am only now feeling like my life is starting to balance out. With the love of my family, my church and those closest to me, they never gave up on me, and now I must improve myself for them as much as myself. I pray for this every day. I’m so glad I tuned in, for some reason KZfaq unsubscribed me and I’ve not seen any of your vids for ages. Many Thanks 🙏🏾 🇳🇿🇺🇸

"Little "Forest ( Haley Joel Osment)would coin phrase " I See Dead People" few years later in " The Sixth Sense"

I get why a lot of people don't like Jenny and a lot of people that go through what she went through actually don't go off the rails, but she clearly needed help and she never got it. She let that trauma affect how she lived, and in the end, she wanted to be and do better for her son, but unfortunately, her choices had consequences, and she never got to see him grow up.😢 It's really tragic

you brought up an interesting point i never realized before. jenny continually tells forrest to run away when there's trouble. and throughout the film that's precisely what jenny, herself, does. excellent observation. but, when society fails or refuses to protect us from the predators of the world, sometimes running away is the only option we have if we wish to survive.

I hardly ever make comments on reaction videos, but my heart went out to you when you said, "It's okay Forrest, my dad went on vacation too." Thank you for sharing, and I'm so sorry that happened to you. Many blessings to you.

Lt.Dan also did so much for veterans and donations and so much more after this movie. Tom Hanks and veterans juring covid did a video on laptop for Lt. Dan and thanked him personally and Dan just smiled and burst into tears.

When I rode the bus to high school back in the late 70's we would all be passing around joints in the back of the school bus. No one cared. Was usually high as a kite walking into homeroom. LOL

John Lennon is the name you were searching your memory for

Forrest Gump is the epitome of human goodness, and the only thing it really took to earn his undying affection was a kindhearted conversation on a school bus. There's a lesson in there somewhere

Great reaction baby! "It stopped raining right before the storm.." Wow that was beautifully put!

You have such a motherly, nurturing, protective nature and it's lovely to watch.

Oh yeah, you could smoke anywhere in the '60's and '70's. Planes, hospitals, theaters...

India I love ur channel and I love watching...I really enjoy ur bubbly personality and ur "real" reactions...hang in there girl the numbers will come ..in the meantime just know some of us think ur gorgeous and really enjoy watching ...ty for all ur effort

It wasn’t that Jenny used Forrest. Let’s keep in mind her advice to Forrest was always to run, because it’s all she knew and what she continued to do until I’m going to assume she got pregnant and started getting her life together. She always loved Forrest but didn’t love herself to give him the love he deserved so she’d run away. It’s unfortunate that her life was so messed up to the point where she didn’t seek him out until she was dying, but she was finally at a point where she felt she could reciprocate his love. (I think the disease she was hepatitis C, but it’s also theorized it’s aids)

I saw this in the theater with my mom when I was in high school. Girl, I have one more year before my land that we moved our double wide to. Worked our way our of the trailer park to a house we then lost due to my son getting a spinal cord injury and becoming paraplegic at age 6. With Social Security and Medicaid you can't be allowed to make a certain amount of money, which sucked because my husband, as the only driver, had to quit his job to drive to all the medical appointments and PT. My son is now 19 and a graphic design major in his second year of college. He's in a wheelchair but is intellectually gifted, which his tutor at rehab discovered. I can't wait for the land to be paid off so we can FINALLY afford to finish his handicapped accessible bathroom up. It takes time.

Smoking on the bus? -- Hon, smoking was allowed absolutely everywhere and anytime. No one ever questioned it. The only ones who knew how dangerous they were to your health was the cigarette manufacturers and they weren't telling anyone.

I know there are probably lots of people answering, but that's John Lennon on the talk show. He's talking as though the song "Imagine" is being inspired right there. Like Forrest inspired Elvis' dance, and other things in the movie. It's really fun how many parts of history and pop culture are woven in here. I wish I had started writing earlier because now I can't remember the things I wanted to say! There's a clip of Tom Hanks on The Graham Norton Show explaining how he got the accent for Forrest Gump. It's sweet. Graham Norton is the only talk show I watch. It's SO much better that our talk shows. Guests often say how much they enjoyed being there. Maybe you could try some clips?

This was based on a book.Forrest went into space in the book and swore like a sailor. The portrayed his innocence alot better. In the book Jenny married a doctor in the end.

Oh mad respect to Forrest for getting the shrimp boat and giving Bubba's 50% to Bubba's Wow!

I really enjoyed your reaction to this movie . Your actions and comments show that you are a really good and genuine person .

@10:35 WOW.. of all the times I've seen this, I've never put it together that "running away" is Jenny's answer to everything (and I love the Jenny character). Great job!

Sally Field who plays the mother has been acting since she was a teenager in the 60s.

Very interesting when you said at the beginning ‘Are we supposed to run from everything, Jenny?’

Jenny has Aids. This is telling the time of childhood, college, Vietnam, through the free love and groovy era of the '70's and ends in the earlier '80's with Jenny's 'unknown virus.' This story is based on true life. No matter what life is about...it's always good to rewatch this movie. I've lived through most of this history myself. ❤ Also, the 'fruit company' they invested in back in the '70's, was Apple. As in APPLE COMPUTERS, PHONES.... BILL.GATES Lol. That's why bubbas momma fainted with that check for bubbas half of the company investments. 😊 One more edit. On Jenny's behalf, she was just as r'etarded' in her life because she didn't believe she deserved love, true love. She believes she's there to guard and take care of forest but she isn't good enough for such a clean life.

Notice that nobody says anything after Forrest says " stupid is, is stupid does" 😂😂😂😂go Forrest go.

Folks have issues with this film, how Gump has no arc, just breeze through everything, and how broken Jenny is. I see their point, but I still enjoy this film very much every time I see it. Even brings tears to these bitter old eyes of mine, every time. I dont know why :-)

According to Tom Hanks, during the scene where Forrest speaks to the crowd in Washington DC about the war in Vietnam, when his microphone is cut off, what he says is "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."

Hey India. I watched you miss so much history in your viewing, So much that went past unseen and there was still more than enough movie to make you satisfied. It is a great movie. There's so many good movies set in the 60s and 70s. I'll watch some with you.

80s baby here and yes i remember people smoking everywhere smoking section was a joke every section was a smoking section lol

It's easy for people to judge when they have never been in that situation, this poor girl was abused as a child and that does something to you. So to sit there and judge someone so harshly as people often do to her in this movie is just ignorant. I truly believe she loved Forrest and her running away was the only thing she knew to do to keep from hurting him. So to all those people who say f Jenny, i say get educated on the subject unless you been there you don't know.

People always make up excuses for Jenny's behaviour. But she just USED him

You can't compare Jenny and Forrest's upbringing. Forrest did have his own issues but he had a mother that loved him and always denounced the negative stuff people said around him. He was purely loved. Jenny wasn't. She was raped and beaten by her father and we don't know how she was treated by her grandmother. The abuse she received left her scared for years. Her only light was Forrest and her leaving him is honestly her trying to protect him from herself. They were in and out of each other's lives honestly. She never sought him out it was just fate that they kept appearing in each other's lives.loves. Jenny had AIDS. Back then doctors didn't know what it was or how to treat it.

According to Tom Hanks, Forrest's speech at the peace rally was, “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.”

A thoroughly wonderful comedy/drama with a fantastic cast. Another excellent reaction on your part.

Tom Hanks was 40 when he made this movie. You should check out a couple of Tom Hanks movies from he was a bit younger with alot of heart. Splash (1984) and Turner and Hooch (1989). They booth can put you to tears

In the movie Jenny died from AIDS. In the book it was Hep C. Here the plot for the 2nd movie they were never going to make.: Roth said in the sequel, Gump helps his son deal with his HIV diagnosis following (spoiler alert!) Jenny's death and being bullied at school, reports Vanity Fair. In addition, Gump finds love again by falling in love with a Native American woman while working as a bingo caller on a reservation. However, his love interest dies in the Oklahoma City bombing as Gump waits to meet her for lunch on a bench nearby.

I've seen so many reactions to this. My dad still hasn't seen this whole movie over his time in Vietnam. Always have to fast forward.

Irony...Dan tells Forrest in the bar, if u become a captain I'll be an astronaut! When Dan is walking, he tells Forrest they're made from space shuttle material! Also of course, both star in Apollo 13!

Hurt people hurt people. Great reaction, India. 💜💜💜

Beautiful film, I understand completely how you feel. I have a lot of sympathy for Jenny, I had, to a certain extent, a similar experience with the one I love, that Forrest had regards Jenny, the positive side is, it has taught me to be more loving in a less self-centred way i.e to love someone unconditionally. Lovely seeing you again.

I think you're wrong about Jenny...that she used Forrest. In order to do that she would have to be consciously making the choices she made in order to be malicious or gain something. But that's not how things work when you're a victim of sexual trauma, particularly in childhood. It literally shapes how you think and feel about yourself and the world which immediately informs your behavior. I'm positive that Jenny would've been just as mystified by her terrible life choices if she'd been able to step back and see herself objectively. When you see yourself as worthless, it's very difficult to let good people in and good things happen to you. She asks him "why are you so good to me?" because she can't make it make sense. Jenny loves Forrest the only way she knows how throughout almost the whole movie by keeping herself at a distance because she believes he's too good for her. I actually have an inherent distrust of people who are attracted to me or say complimentary things because of how much trauma has turned my brain into a wasteland. I feel like if someone is attracted to me, there must be something wrong with them. And although I've learned how to accept compliments, inside I still think they're lies. I've been in therapy over 20 years. So yeah, I understand Jenny completely. It's frustrating that so many people don't and even go as far as to vilify her.

Some people think Jenny was just manipulating Forrest the whole time. But I've always theorized the reason Jenny always ran away from him is because she wanted him to stay perfect in her sight. She didn't want to find whether or not he would turn on her and turn into the other men who abused and used her for sex. But that's just my theory. There is a chance she may have used him the whole time. But personally, I doubt it.

Forrest was a feather, floating through life, going where the wind blew him. He floated into college football, the military, ping pong, shrimping; he simply went where the wind blew him. Jenny was running, looking for something she would never find because she didn't think she was worthy of it, anyway. When she gave birth and experienced real love for the first time, she finally recognized that the love Forrest offered her was the real thing. I get upset when people say Jenny used Forrest. If Jenny was truly using him, she would have stayed and taken advantage of his money. When she came to him she was in a deep depression. Forrest tells us that she slept all the time and he did all the talking. It was then that he asked her to marry him and she says, essentially, "Yes, you would make a good husband, but you don't want to marry me, I'm no good." She leaves because she realizes it's not fair to Forrest. And then she finds out she's pregnant, but by then Forrest is running across the country.

The same bus driver, and she was chewing gum because smoking on the the bus wasn’t allowed by the 80s.

What you need to understand is that Jenny did not think that she deserved the love of Forrest because of the abuse from her father. She was chasing men that was like her father. She told Forrest that she had been really messed up. Yeah, she did not treat Forrest well, but she also did not treat herself well either. She was probably blaming herself for what her dad did to her.

This is definitely a top 3 movie for me.great reaction

Everybody can be a better them. Well said!

Our girl here is so sweet. Look at the kindness in her eyes when she watches with us

When severe trauma happens in childhood it effects different people differently but it effects everyone in some way. With abuse like Jenny got can lead to the person feel like they are not good enough for good things. All they know is toxic love, and unfortunately that's were many feel "comfortable" or how its suppose to be. When she tells Forest "you dont know what love is." its actually her who doesnt know what real love is because those who were suppose to show her and teach her that in life showed her something quite different. Everyone gets mad a Jenny but she lived in her own personal hell that many fortunately never know, the fact that she was eventually able to get out of it (I am sure in large part from having someone like Forrest) was amazing. Unfortunately there are those who dont ever have someone like forest and some who never get out of the hell that they are trapped in. This is the reason why stopping forms of child abuse and child trafficking should be more of a priority then it is to most people. The damage that is being done to millions of children every year is unmeasurable.

hope you are blessed with a life of comfort.... you bring so many of us happiness.....

Because of her abuse as a child Jenny does indeed Run Away from everything

I love your hair! That color is so beautiful.

Jenny is such a divisive character. So many reactors pile on her. And she does act like a jerk a lot, but CPTSD will screw you up. Especially when you don't even know that's what's warping your perception and coloring your behavior. She just fell into that trap of replacing her sexually/physically abusive father with a string of sexually/physically abusive partners. That's very common, as is numbing yourself with drugs when you grew up like that. At least she got herself together enough to be a good mom. And she couldn't really tell Forrest about little Forrest at first because he was out there running for over 3 years.

Forrest would have never had all of his achievements if he and Jenny did not go their own ways. Jenny had to go through a lot to finally face her demons which were a result of her father's abuse. They always came together when it was the right time to move them along in the direction that ended up saving them both. The child was born while Forrest was running for over 3 years. Jenny and Forrest had a few years together before she died and Forrest Jr. got on the school bus to go to "real" school.

10:45 'You must be my FNGs'. FNG = 'Fuckin' new guy'

Enjoyed your reaction, one of the better jobs of editing for a reaction and you really got all the characters.

Jenny is a very tragic character. She loved Forrest and felt like since she was so damaged she'd tear him down with her. That's why she could never stay with him. But I think the exact opposite would happen. He could have saved her. He'd do anything to make her happy and keep her safe. That's why it's so sad to me. She's not the villain people make her out to be.

If Jenny used him she would have stayed aling time ago taking advantage of him but never did, she didn't take his money. She had problems that Forrest just doesn't understand.

I didn't realize we had moved channels. I'm caught up, on board, and notifications are on. ❤

the yellow thing you have on the end of your curtain rod kind of stands out. i was looking at my phone and thought i had like a kernel of corn on my phone. lol 😂😂😂

I will never get over that so-called Mandela Effect... I am absolutely CERTAIN when I first watched this movie back in 1994, he said "Life IS like a box of chocolates..." It irks me every time, just like Star Wars when Darth Vader tells Luke he is his father.

This is my first time watching you watching something for the first time. Sweet movie to start with.

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Honey they used to have cigarette ads with doctors

Jenny didn't believe she was worthy of Forrest's love.

Her having a thing for Lt Dan (Gary Sinise) was a reaction I never knew I needed 😂 and speaking of which his character arc is my favorite in the whole movie his relationship with Forrest is beautiful

In the book, she had Hepatitis C

My favorite part was when you saw what I saw . No, how these trouble relationships go, ,Foresrt , you stay in the FRIEND ZONE Good or bad? What did it was when he told her "I love you ". India just to let you know HIV was newly discovered and I believe that's what Jenny had.

Nice job India. Great film and great reaction.

Great story ty for reacting❤😊

Hope you have tissues ready.......starting your reaction now =) Jenny was far more disabled than Forrest......

The Black Panthers weren’t totally against Forest; if you watch, the main dude held them back from stopping him. They just didn’t want that vibe in their place.