It's theorised Jenny died from AIDs as she got sick around late 70s early 80s and she mention the doctors didn't know what it was. The fact her entire adult life was full of drugs and ,presumably, unprotected sex with multiple partners supports it. The changing socks comment from Lieutenant Dan is actually really crucial for soldiers to do back in the day even during WW1 and 2. Soldiers did a LOT of walking and since Asian countries have really heavy monsoons/rainy season they would track through deep mud and floods. If they didn't keep their feet as dry as possible they would literally ROT in their shoes.

Jenny was never really mean to Forrest. She was a damaged person, but a good one. I think whenever she left Forrest, even if it left him confused and maybe even hurt, she was trying to protect him from her. Her failed suicide attempt where she ended up crying and holding herself was proof that she was a scared, aimless person. She was definitely not a horrible person. But I think we can say that because we are an arbitrary party who knows her whole story in detail.

Honestly I love when people haven't seen this movie because it's amazing to see people's genuine reaction to an absolute amazing movie😊 Thanks for all your great content!

I think some people don't relate to Jenny and that's fine, but she's definitely not a horrible person. I always saw the fact that her father abused her made the impact from a young age that somehow being treated badly by men was "love". So when she tells Forest that he doesn't know what love is, it's just her projecting her own insecurities since she is the one who really never knew what love was🤷🏽‍♀️ Just my perception tho, anyone else's experience with the movie is their own and also valid, and I still LOVED your video❤️

Jenny doesn’t deserve all that hate. She was an abused child, and this experience affected her entire life. She doesn’t feel like she deserves Forrest’s love since he is such a pure person. Apart from the harsh words against her your reaction was pretty cool.

Honestly, I don’t understand why everyone is so harsh about Jenny personality. She’s clearly just abused traumatised child, who was broken in littlest age. And it’s not like she could have any real treatment with it! Kids like her have no roots or good role models, so she was desperately seeking for something all her life, constantly making worst self destructive choices and picking men, who was abusing her just like her father. It’s pretty psychologically accurate and sad as f*ck. She was very lucky to meet Forrest… and he was lucky to have her too, actually. Not like he had high chances to meet someone else, who genuinely loved him so much…even in that broken way. So I don’t get the hatred at all.

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." Powerful words right there. 1994 was a great year for cinema as this, along with Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption all came out in the same year.

...she didn't tell him about Forrest Jr because he was gone the whole time with no social media or cellphones. The second he settled back down she wrote him and asked to come see her so she could tell him in person.

“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get” is still one of my favorite lines ever

I get being upset at Jenny. She was traumatized as a child and never really got over it until she became a parent herself. She was beat and raped by her horrible drunk father. And she was so little too, it’s just horrific and sad. 😢 She may have looked down a bit at Forrest because he was mentally slower than normal people, but let’s face it - Forrest was emotionally stronger than everyone else around him. He rolled with anything that happened to him and overcame all obstacles in life. Had Jenny gotten together with him sooner, she might have learned how to deal with her trauma better. He could have helped her heal. And she wouldn’t have gotten into drugs and sex like she did. So I can understand people trying to defend Jenny because of her past. But I also understand people who hate her. At some point in your adult life you have to take ownership for the decisions you make and try to overcome your circumstances and not let the past dictate your future. Sadly Jenny came to that realization a bit too late.😔 At least their son will have a good life and he has the most amazing dad ever. 🥰🥰

Ah, one of my childhood movies. As I got older, I realized that Jenny wasn’t so bad…she was just suffering. My younger self used to think she was so dumb lol

10:19 In war, changing socks was to ward off trench foot, which was rampant in WWI and WWII when the trenches would get muddy. When your feet are constantly wet and dirty, your feet can get infected to the point they would need to be amputated. Since Vietnam was tropical and had monsoon seasons, changing socks was an important rule of thumb.

13:53 Tom Hanks has gone on record claiming this is what he said when the audio cut out, "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."

Bubba Gump shrimp only exists because of this movie

25:34 Using the period of life where she did drugs (including sharing needles) and probably had the most unsafe sex practices, as context... I think the implication is that she had AIDS/HIV, which was unknown at the time, and so didn't have a treatment yet. Also, don't knock Jenny for becoming a waitress while Forrest was on his national run; it's a lot better position from the self-destructive party life she'd been doing, because she's actually doing something with her life. She even looked cleaned up. That's one of the visual hints that Jenny already had Jr, and was trying to make a better life for her child. She also knew she was terminal, and so she knew she had to take care of her affairs- to let Forrest know he has a son, and for her to know a happy family life before it was too late.

Uggggh when Forrest’s mom is dying and Sally Field says “I am going to miss you Forrest.” That breaks me. That’s the love of a parent♥️😭

Others have covered the Jenny thing, I will only add that as a survivor of childhood sexual assault/abuse myself I have a unique relatability to her… when people react to the movie and don’t understand her character or her motivations I can’t help but be grateful for them that they don’t understand, because I wouldn’t want others to go through such things. I’d be afraid to know how many Forrest’s I have in my past(people that for one reason or another I neglected or didn’t pay the kindest attentions to because I didn’t feel like I deserved their kindness, support, love, or company…) and pray those people can someday understand and forgive my actions.

I think you were quite unfair to Jenny... Besides the fact that she had horrible trauma from her childhood that she never got any help dealing with, and which definitely strongly influenced the destructive nature of her life choices, why should she be condemned simply for not wanting to be with Forest? She probably loved him more than anyone else in her life (until their son), but that doesn't mean that she needed to develop romantic feelings toward him, no matter how wonderful he was as a person (which he was, obviously!). And I don't see that she even did anything particularly cruel or bad to him: she says a few hurtful things to him (as loved ones sometimes do) which Forest doesn't seem to hold against her, and she ghosts him after sleeping with him because she has her own shit do deal with and probably feels guilty for possibly taking advantage of him or something, but does this really make her a "bad" person? She never promises him anything, nor asks or expects anything from him: they simpy go off on very different life paths as they reach adulthood. However, as we see, Forest clearly deserves and *does* know "what love is", because he seems to understand it on a much more simple, but perhaps more fundamental, level than most people of more "average" intelligence - but that doesn't change the fact that it's pretty reasonable that Jenny would feel that they couldn't have a relationship on equal terms, no matter how much they loved each other. I'm assuming the only reason they married at the end was so that Forest would become Forest Jr's legal guardian, and therefore avoid a future of him ending up in foster care when Jenny dies, not because she suddenly realised that she had been in love with him all along. It was a form of closure for sure, but I don't think it was meant as a true "the hero finally gets the girl!"-moment at all, because all that mattered in the end was that he loved her and she loved him, and they were now a family, even though she wasn't IN LOVE with him as he was with her. Sorry if this was all a bit rambling! I also haven't seen the movie from start to finish in about a year, so I'm only going off of memory + the clips in the video. Oh, and I've always thought that they alluded to Jenny dying from AIDS, but I just read somewhere that the author of the book the movie was based on stated in the sequel that she died from hepatitis C, apparently.

I dislike when people say they hate Jenny. Just because she didn't get with him instantly. Hell, the majority of the times they met she was purposely doing him a favor by telling him to stay away. She was screwed up and knew it. She wasn't going to drag him down with her. As far as not telling him about his son immediately. He was running for 3 years. Obviously a couple more passed after and then introduced them but she was probably scared at if he'd be upset. Good for her having the courage. I also think that even if she wasn't sick she would have.

Jenny's abuse damaged her so bad that she never felt worthy of Forrest's love. The suicide attempt was her rock bottom and the start of her recovery. Remember that after she got pregnant, Forrest was running cross country for years and there were no cell phones back then.

When anyone ever asks why I love Tom Hanks so much, I’ll show them this movie right here

“Imagine if Forrest went into the Bubba-Gump shrimp business, he would be such a rich man” Oh you just wait...

In Jenny’s defense: Obviously she was incredibly damaged and emotionally whip lashed. I believe that every time she mentions stuff like “Forrest you don’t know what love is” or “run Forrest run” she’s speaking out of her own experiences and how she doesn’t know what to do with bad situations and SHE doesn’t know what love is and views it as convoluted. Thennn because of all of that she’s constantly in trauma bonds with other people and relies on drugs to cope because she’s emotionally stunted. Although her leaving after her and Forrest sleep together is cowardice, I don’t think she knew how to confront her emotions in a healthy way and ran away like she’s used to doing in order to protect herself. Obviously she made mistakes that hurt Forrest in the process but I believe she did love him but didn’t know how to handle it, or even believe it because she’s never had healthy love in her life. She’s definitely flawed but I have empathy for her

I can’t hate Jenny but I understand your frustration towards her. I have people I know who followed/follow the same destructive path. Being abused does not justify being a bad person, but I can only feel sorrow for her like I do my own people. And I’m glad Forrest stuck by her cause he was showing that UNCONDITIONAL love she never knew. Cause truly SHE didn’t know what love was and HE gave it to her. I believe we can’t excuse her for hurting others or her terrible behavior but we can believe that she is a tragic character and needed healing and love instead of rejection. Edit: and yes, maybe she didn’t “deserve” Forrest but is it real unconditional love if it’s only deserved?

It blows my mind how so many(let’s face it) men react to this movie and immediately hate on Jenny. They’re always so forgiving of Lieutenant Dan for treating Forrest like shit, and then turning his life around, but when Jenny does the same thing, they attack her for it. People don’t understand the trauma that victims of child abuse and molestation go through, and given that it’s spanning over the 60s 70s and 80s, how little therapy was available to those victims. Let’s get one thing straight: Jenny and Forrest were never in an actual relationship so she had no obligation to be with him just because he was sweet. If anything, she pushed herself away from him to protect him because she knew her life was a mess. She pushed him away because she *does* care about him. After she hit rock bottom by almost killing herself, she tries to mend that bond with Forrest but realizes she should not just rely on his kindness, so she runs away that last time to make herself self-sufficient. She didn’t plan on getting pregnant, but she did plan to better herself on her own terms. And when she gets sick, at that point her child’s well-being is the most important thing so of course she’s gonna do what it takes to make sure her son is happy and taken care of when she’s gone and she knows Forrest is the father and would love and protect him. It’s Jenny who is the one who doesn’t understand what love is. Forrest grew up in a loving home. But because of the abuse Jenny endured from the very first man that is supposed to show her what love is, she then leads a life thinking she her only worth is her body. Drugs are an escape from her trauma. She doesn’t understand that Forrest loves her for who she is but she does know that he doesn’t deserve to put up with her own issues. It’s only when she turns her life around and gets better on her own that she lets him back in. I just wish guys wouldn’t just assume Jenny’s a bitch because there’s much more below the surface that they don’t care to understand. They’d rather make her the villain instead of seeing what she’s going through as well.

I do feel bad for jenny because couldn’t deal with her trauma from her childhood

I used to hate Jenny when this first came out ( I was a kid) but have a different opinion watching it on and off again over time. I think it's important to note that she is the one who taught Forrest to run-- but they use running in different capacities. His is almost therapeutic or motivational while she seems to run away everytime things get difficult. I think her "leading him on" was because she knew he was the best person in her life and kept coming back for that comfort but always left to protect him from her. I also used to blame her for not telling him about little Forrest, but it only dawned on me recently that she couldn't communicate with him while he was running around for like 3+ years in the early 1980's

I think Jenny was a complicated and tortured character. She never thought she deserved anything pure. I think the hate is short sighted. Not to say that what she did was right, but she was trying to run from her demons by different means, drugs, alcohol, abusive relationships. I think her character is so much more nuanced than what you give it for. Because we see most of things play out from his perspective, we forget about hers. It would have been nice if she was able to find her self-worth sooner, but sometimes people never do, and overcoming sexual abuse as a child spills into all your relationships and is a large weight on anyone’s psyche to carry or overcome. I feel that was brushed off early on in your reaction. Just because she was saved by her aunt, it doesn’t mean that she miraculously made her pain disappear.

Young Forest meets Elvis and teaches him dance moves (Forest played by Tom Hanks) In the new Elvis movie Colonel Tom Parker is played by Tom Hanks.

My grandparents have always wanted to watch it. My husband introduced me to this film and I’m 31 and been with husband 15 years. Was only last week my grandparents watched it and my grandad doesn’t watch films like 3 hours long but he loved it 😊

A lot of people have already defended Jenny the way I would, regarding her personality in the face of her abusive childhood and life, so I won't add onto that. However, something I also loathe is the entitled opinion that many reactors (mostly men) feel about Jenny to Forrest, that because he treats her well and would be "good for her" that she's obligated to romantically love him and marry him and all that. It's a disgusting mentality. No one owes anyone anything like that, and if the only reason someone treats someone well is because they have expectations of such an outcome, they are a loathsome person.

After this movie, the actor who portrayed Lieutenant Dan started an organization that helps raise money for veterans who lost their limbs.

Not even surprised you haven’t seen this one yet, lol. And once again, you did not disappoint. Haven’t watched this movie in years, but now I kinda wanna rewatch it. Forest really is a treasure and deserves only good things for the rest of his days.

Other commentators already said what there is to say about Jenny, I'd just like to add that this reaction broke my heart a tiny bit. I've been sexually abused in my childhood too, and there did other cruel things happen to me as well and I gotta say it can definetely break you as a person and for the last two decades I tried to heal myself and recover from it. When bad stuff happens to you - especially early on - it can damage your soul to the point of pure and utter self hatred and you refuse to believe that you deserve anything good in life. Even now I'm a very lonely person because I have no friends and cut off contact to my entire family, and that's because I'm so afraid others might find out how weird I am as a person, or worse - I let them into my life and drag them down or scare them away because I might treat them wrong. So, you saying how much you hate Jenny throughout this reaction was a little stab in the heart.

It's worth mentioning that Bubba Gump Shrimp came from this movie... they're not attaching Forrest to an existing company like they do with all the other historical references. If you look up the company, it started in 1996, two years after this movie came out and won all the awards. Also, ditto what everyone else is saying about Jenny. She is a broken person who is just doing the best she can. Her whole life's mantra is "run away." When she was a little girl being sexually abused by her father she prayed to be turned into a bird so she could fly away. When Forrest was being picked on, she told him to "Run, Forrest, run." When he told her he was going to Vietnam, her only advice to him was to not try to be brave but to just run away. It's the only way she knows how to deal with pain or danger or trauma (of which she has a ton). That's what she's doing whenever she leaves him, and when she tries to commit suicide. She's just running away because she never learned how to deal with things in a healthy way, or how to love or be loved by someone. She is an incredibly realistic and tragic character, and we should feel sympathy towards her, not hatred. Also, thank you for the Austin Butler/Elvis reference! I'm obsessed with that movie right now!

Bubba talking about shrimp is everything

Jenny told him as soon as she could reach him. He was all around USA running around, remember? I just about hated your reaction to her, but that's what makes watching these reactions interesting. I personally see her as an abused person who didn't think she'd deserve anything but the same abuse she got from the moment she was born. But she came around when she had her own child and started to change her life around. She's not too different from Lt.Dan, who everyone seems to love.

Jenny only does the exact thing she tells Forrest to do: ‘If you’re ever in trouble, if you’re ever afraid, don’t try to be brave. You just run!’ It is a common if not textbook reaction and coping mechanism for victims of childhood sexual abuse. As are many of her behaviors- the drug use, etc. The consequences are real, they are lasting, and they are destructive if not appropriately addressed.

i'm so mad people hate jenny so much - she was sexually abused her entire childhood, depressed and constantly trying to take her own life, abused by the men she gets with, addicted to various substances, and people think she's intentionally hurting forrest by not wanting to be with him? just because he loves her doesn't mean she's awful for not wanting to be with him women are allowed to say no

The blonde girl on the school bus in the red and white dress is Tom Hanks daughter Elizabeth. Tom based Forrest’s speech on the kid who played his character as a kid because he was from that area of Alabama. There was going to be a sequel where Forrest was raising his son who contracted aids from Jenny and he was going to meet Princess Diana and be near the Oklahoma bombing and other 90’s events but the script showed up either the day before or day after 9/11 and Tom and the director decided the movie had no meaning anymore and didn’t make it. Jenny always loved Forrest but she was so messed up because of the sexual abuse that she suffered when she was child and never got the help she needed to deal with it, I never understand why people hate on her so much it wasn’t like she was kept running to hurt him I think she kept running from him because she thought she would hurt him a lot more if she stuck around.

Also, defending Jenny, she had partners that were like her father: abusive and controlling. That's all she ever knew and she'd always leave Forrest and never truly return his love because she, in her heart, knew she wasn't good enough; that she was damaged goods and Forrest deserves better than her and she didn't know how to be that through her life. She'd leave to protect him from her and the last time she left was because she really wanted to better herself: if not for her than for Forrest. She got an honest job and her own place and i agree with those below that he was running around the country for a good while and couldn't get a hold of him, exactly. And i do believe it was AIDS that got her in the end. And I believe Forrest's running 'for no particular reason' was his own way of dealing with the feelings he has toward Jenny and her leaving that last time and maybe every time. But he never seems to feel bad for himself, aside from maybe "why won't Jenny love me", but that's about it.

I'm definitely surprised how most people hate Jenny and tend to forget that she was abused by her father on a daily basis, I'm no psychiatrist but I'm pretty sure it would be difficult to just get over that and be a wonderful person like Forrest.

loved your reaction! also, I won't pile on with the Jenny comments, but one thing I wanted to point out that I haven't seen mentioned much is that I saw you get upset about her not informing Forrest about their son. remember that when she found out she was pregnant, he would likely have been on his 3 year run, so there wouldn't have been any way for her to reach him (this was before cell phones). she waited until after he was finished and sent him a letter, basically reaching out to him when she could. I understand the frustration about Jenny but to me, she is such a tragic character who was abused and never had any help working through her trauma. I never saw her as a bad person, just a very hurt one who never did anything malicious toward Forrest. she loved him by pushing him away because she never felt she was good enough to love him. anyway, sorry my comment got a bit rambly haha thanks for reacting to one of my favorite movies! ❤️

I believe in my Freshman History class we watched this and had to write down all historical references we could find. From Forest being named after a KKK member to the Marilyn Monroe picture to the Vietnam War to the Apple company to the rise of STI’s in the 70’s that killed Jenny

I had the same reaction to Jenny at first, but as I get older and after rewatching and rewatching, I get it. It’s hard to love when you feel like your broken and don’t deserve better. Nobody’s perfect. Also, the changing of socks in Vietnam was to prevent swamp foot which is a fungal or bacterial infection that caused a lot of American Soldiers to die due to not knowing the region they were fighting in. But yea, I love this movie. Gets me everytime.

Forrest Gump is one of my fav movies of all time, Tom Hanks clearly NAILED his performance. I was an emotional wreck the first time I watched it 😭😭 I’d love to see you cover the Boy in the Striped Pajamas next, cuz that’s another tearjerker

Tom Hanks acting when he finds out about his son is heartbreaking 😭

My husband hadn’t seen this until I made him watch it with me a few years ago. It instantly became a top tier movie for him. I cry every time I watch it Forest is a perfect human who we must protect at all times. Jenny is broken, but I do believe she genuinely loved him the whole time

In the sequel book it's revealed Jenny died from Hep C. I always thought it was AIDS. Also, Jenny was regularly abused physically, psychologically, and sexuallly and a little girl. She was absolutely traumatised and never got professional help (she was poor and it wasn't exactly the done thing at the time). So she slept around because she felt it was all she had to offer, and did drugs as an escape. She thinks she doesn't deserve someone as kind and pure as Forest so she keeps running away.

To Jenny she was abused and broken and didnt deserve to be loved by someone lile Forrest who she saw as pure untainted and forgiving She wanted his love she cared for him but I think she was afraid she'd ruin him or that if the idea of him wasn't what she thought it would break her It wasn't until she got clean worked on herself got stable and fell in love with her child and came to terms with her life and worth that's she could accept Forrest She didn't think she deserved him But KNEW her some sure did

Jenny was raped, repeatedly, as a child. By her father. She was deeply deeply messed up. Traumatized. She ran from love. She felt she didn't deserve it, and especially not from someone she knew to be so good as Forrest. It's heartbreaking. It took her all those long 20+ years to come to terms with it. A metric f$*!-ton of drugs. Multiple near suicides and God knows what else. Forrest deserves the world. He got it. He was just a good person to everyone. And there are way WAY too many moments in this movie that just kill you every time. But him worried about his son being smart at the end there destroys me every time. Tom Hanks man. Legendary role here, one of the best movies. And so amazing how they just inserted him into history as he lived his life.

Great review. This movie reminds me of my dad who passed when I was a kid. Whenever I want to remember him, I put this on or Terminator 2.

This may be weird, but I've never watched this movie in full myself, but one point maybe a year ago I watched a reaction to it and since then have watched many reactions. I should one day sit down and watch it in full myself, but i do feel like I've seen everything I need to see from said reactions. I've heard about the movie way before, but never realized just how amazing and emotional it is.

It's implied that Jenny died of HIV/AIDS in the movie, but in the book she dies of Hepatitis, which she caught from the drug use.

Did you not pay attention to anything that happened to Jenny as a child? Or have you just never known anyone who had a childhood like that to understand why they do such self-destructive things as adults? It's unbelievably unfair to say she's a terrible character. She's a TRAGIC character.

Just reading the comments I see we have another Jenny hater in the reaction. From her mother death to the sexual abuse from her father when she was young, don’t these reactors see how it shaped her path? From the dating abusive men to the drug use to the suicide attempts. She never promised Forest a relationship and she never abused or was mean to him. She just didn’t think she deserved him. In the end of her life she got a few years of pure happiness with her son and Forest.

Even though Jenny is not the titular character, this is still her story as well as Forest's. And we don't have her narration but there are three very important things that Jenny says the forest that tells you about her outlook; 1) Run away - because that's how Jenny deals with her issues she runs away. When she was a child that's the only thing that allowed her to escape. This includes the drugs and suicidal thoughts. She doesn't face her issues but just moves on. 2) You don't know what love is - so many people misread this as Jenny saying Force isn't smart enough to know what love is. But and Jenny's life love has only brought her pain, and that's what she associated with. So what she feels for Forest can't be loved because it doesn't hurt and it's not scary. 3) You don't want to marry me - once again so many people see this as her rejecting Forest. But this is actually Jenny showing that she doesn't believeshe deserves love. Jenny has no self-worth and how Forest describes her in these scenes is textbook depression 101. This doesn't excuse her actions but it's a legitimate reasoning for them. Because Jenny is not a horrible person she is just a traumatized and unhealthy person

I've seen Forrest Gump for the first time just a few month ago and my dad showed it to me, and he was like: It's a great movie!! We should watch it, it's a great movie! And he smiled when he said it so I thought oh cool, a fun movie to watch... Boy was I wrong

I loved the Little Shop of Horrors reference🤩🤩. That's and the Rocky Horror Picture Show are my 2nd and 3rd favorite movies/musicals

By far my favorite reaction that you have done!

Forrest taught us to "go with the flow" in life. And to love unconditionally. The best movies touch our deepest emotions. You're reaction was funny but endearing.

Loved this reaction. Please more southern accent! It came outta nowhere 😂

He wasn't kidding about the socks, trench foot is very real my friend.

The shrimp burger is pretty good, you must try it but only the burger not with sauces, cheese or any of those things that they put on the meat ones

1. The music rights alone must have cost a small mint💲💲 2. Kurt Russell did the voice for Elvis.😎 3. 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. 4. Jenny did indeed give him the best gift ever (it wasn't the shoes)😋 5. Jenny died of Hep-C from dirty needles when she was in Caliphony.. 6. It's ironic that Lt. Dan told the guys to take care of their feet because he loses his. 7. You have had a ride through recent US history and culture. From Elvis to John Lennon, Vietnam to the jogging craze of the 70's. About the only thing left out was streaking but that wasn't touched. 8. "Sometimes I guess there're aren't enough rocks" 9. Haley Joel Osmentt/Forrest Jr. steals the show in "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis. 10. Often when he's finishing a segment about death, he ends it by saying "That's all I have to say about that" 11. In the book Forrest isn't always that nice of a guy. Tom Hanks is the GOAT. He's also in the GOAT movie by Stephen King "The Green Mile". You WILL CRY😭

Ppl need to lay off this guy from hating on Jenny... srsly. I get both sides after seeing the movie so many times, and it's like me hating Tom or Summer back n forth in 500 Days. Both feelings are valid. From Forrest's side of things, yeah, he doesn't deserve the toxicity and yeah, Jenny just had a lot to work through in which her love for him got mixed up in it throughout her life. He was unlike any other person she knew and in some ways, she wants to keep him pure, away from her trauma, but in her life too. She didn't know how to accept his unconditional love for her. It all worked out tho, right? She got to make his only lifelong dream come true & even left him a piece of her with him :) (personally, I think the best thing she did was die of AIDS after fixing things with Forrest. LOL! And who evem knows if Jr. was even his in the 1st place 😏)

“How much heartache am I gonna endure?” Honey, you’ve got a big storm coming.

24:34 This part? Breaks me every. Single. Time. Great video, I only just got to see it since I was out of town, but nice job! And go ahead and put in Little Shop references everywhere, I'm for it.

Great reaction!!! Always a good time watching your content. There is a bubba gump shrimp restaurant in Gatlinburg Tennessee

I’ve only seen this movie once and I never finished it (because we we’re watching it in class and it was the last day of school) It’s pretty good! Can’t wait to watch your reaction tho

am glad u watched it and met forest gump finally.. am so happy for you !!!!

There ARE sequels to the book this is based on but they're all... weird. Forrest gets a chimpanzee for a sidekick, they both become astronauts & crash-land in the jungle to be found by a tribe of cannibals. SHOCKINGLY that wasn't optioned for filming...

It's an easy trap to fall into brother, it really is. In 2022, we expect films to fully flesh out all of the characters but in the '90s that just wasn't the standard.... Funny enough, both The Green Mile and Forrest Gump give us Tom Hanks - our hero, and 2 co-stars who basically are the entire central plot -- John, the black male prisoner and Jenny, the broken white woman - they have lives full of injustice and trauma because the system does not protect them, but all we get to see is how our hero feels about them, and how our hero deals with their influence on his life. Obviously, there was more to Jenny's life than Forrest's affection for her.... Even with a character as treasured and likeable as Forrest Gump, we have to remember he didn't even fully grasp what happened to Jenny, he didn't go through that hell, his home life wasn't perfect, but it was safe - he was protected and loved - Jenny was not so fortunate. She coped as best as she could.

Hi 👋 Forrest Gump is one of my favorite movies amazing reaction Tom Hanks great actor ❤️

defenders of Jenny are harsh on first time watchers. When people defend Jenny they usually watched movie several times already or watched it after 2000s when ptsd became big thing. Before 2000s ptsd was not that big thing that's why many didn't understand leuatinant Dan at first too. First time watchers don't catch much about that Jenny abuse thing because it is already rich movie with every single scene is telling something special so they watch it so intently and what's happening exactly at the time. The movie is so good which doesn't give us time to think about that small detail of Jenny's childhood life. And with that mind watching, what we bellieve is we bellieve in second chance. But after that second chance our sympathy goes down and down on most people. Jenny had second, third ....tenth chances to get back with Forrest and fix her life but she still chose to run and with that hurts Forrest again and again repeatedly in the process. That's why first time watchers hate/ don't like Jenny because we already started sympathizing Forrest since he is protagonist and his mental health was clear to us from the beginning but Jenny's hidden. Even in real life people help other people but if they talk about some childhood trauma and doesn't wanna rise on the legs back then even the most patient people will leave them. But Forrest didn't leave Jenny and was waiting for her forever without meeting anygirl while Jenny fucks every single guy she meets starting from her high school, which gives us impression of she's just using Forrest as a therapeutic relief once in a while.

I never watch reactions to this movie because I hate people hating on Jenny so... Yeah I'm gonna keep it up

This fit came out the year I was born, and I've watched this film every time it's on TV. I love this film! Even saw an episode of Movies that Made Us that went in depth about this film's production. Even that is interesting.

Freaking love this movie man

Forest Gump really words to highlight our views and biases on hardships and disabilities. In this movie we see Forest who has a learning /mental disability, Lieutenant Dan who has a physical disability, and Jenny who has a emotional / mental disability. ~ Because we can see Lieutenant Dan's physical hardships, we excuse or forgive behavior from him that we don't from Jenny. Actually we put on some of Lieutenant stands toxic traits on to Jenny even though she doesn't even exhibit them. ~Because we can see the struggles Forest went through due to his learning limitations, we often miss they've given him much more than the took away. It also has highlighted the problematic viewpoint that we have towards the toxic mentality that is the friend zone. ~ Jenny's emotional struggles are really boiled down to her being selfish. Or not getting over what we all can acknowledge would have been a very traumatic experience at a very young age. There's little empathy for her the character and often other negative actions are placed on her that she does not exhibit in the movie. Her story arc is often overlooked in the movie as well as some unrealistic expectations placed on her especially when you consider the time period in which this movie takes place.

The thing with Jenny, I believe is that she truly believed that Forrest was too good for her, in the sense that she wasn't worth of Forrest's love. She is constantly asking him why he was so good to her, because she thought she never deserved that. You can see in the men she chooses: abusive, manipulative, gaslighting assholes. And yeah, that stems from her childhood trauma. Many people hate her and think just what she herself thought: That she doesn't deserve Forrest, which I find ironic. And they completely ignore the fact that Forrest is in love of her and only her, as she was the first person to ever be kind to him outside his immediate family, and his first true friend. It only completely clicked on my mind in the scene after they have sx and probably conceived Forrest Jr. Like you said, it is strange that the taxi driver asked her why she was running away. And that dialogue has a specific function: for Jenny to answer "I am not running away" In her mind, she is only ever going to drag down Forrest. She wasn't running away or being selfish, she truly thought she was bad for him. You sometimes pointed out how she aknowledged Forrest after he became rich or famous, but, she never ever really asked for money or recognition. She only ever was happy to see him again. Finally, people sometimes is angry that she just called Forrest when she was dying out of selfishness. But she did it for their son. She wouldn't leave him alone. If she wasn't dying, probably would never called him again, believing that she was a burden or beneath him. It's sad to think that she died thinking that.

I've been subscribed for so long now and I'm /still/ confused how this high quality and entertaining channel isn't even at 45k subs yet?? Hope it goes up soon! Also, I only watched Little Shop of Horrors last week in a local production so that reference was a 10/10 for me 😂

Also... Hepatitis C. Jenny had Hep C.

I'm actually surprised and very disappointed in your view of Jenny. She did own up to her mistakes and past decisions, unfortunately it was at the end of her life, but she had a very traumatic life that took her a long time to figure out how to pied herself back together. I don't know why she didn't tell Forrest about his child but him being indisposed by running across the country for 3 years probably had a lot to do with it as well as her trying to make a stable and sober life for herself at the same time

Jenny was VICIOUSLY and horribly abused by her father sexually. Women with that kind of abuse are known to make poor choices. She kept finding abusive men. She always loved Forrest, and she didn’t tell him about their son because he was out running for over three years. There were no cellphones back then. He was unreachable. Also, during the sixties, millions of kids made it to San Fransisco to find themselves and do LSD. LSD is I like all other drugs. Mushrooms are similar. It was a massive movement. She was just doing the best she could with what she knew. She died of Hepatitis C, but it could have been AIDS. Needles and unprotected sex. She would have no way of knowing she was being risky. I’m 51 and this film is a classic. Great reaction, just try and forgive Jenny. She was a broken person and in the end gave Forrest his son.

loved this reaction🤣 hey heads up zombies 3 just came out on disney+

I’m just glad you’re seeing it

I just wanted to say that I loved your reaction to this movie and to suggest a couple others. If you loved tom hanks in this one 2 others are: 1. Beautiful day in the neighborhood: it's the story of how Mr Rodgers became a show. 2. Saving Mr banks: it's the story about making the movie mary poppins. 3. Mrs.Doubtfire: a great robin willams movie.

Life is like a box of chocolate

Netflix has a documentary on movies called the movies that made us. This one is in season two and tells a lot about it. I recommend

This such a great movie!!! People could learn so much from Forrest! 😇😍😇

I won't pile on the cases made in Jenny's defense, but I will say that you should watch the movie again and keep what everyone has said in mind. Also, I forget which other movie commentary channel that said it, but I thought it was very insightful, "I don't know if Jenny is good for Forrest, but he's good for Jenny." If you can put yourself in Jenny's shoes or sympathize with her in the least, I feel like it's actually so sweet that Forrest was the one stable person in her life who gave her unconditional love time and time again, when she probably felt that she was unworthy of him, and there was probably a part of her that didn't want to overcomplicate that, so she resisted him often times, but there were moments where she couldn't control her own romantic feelings for him. But yeah, please watch the movie again, and keep in mind that realistically a lot of victims of abuse (be it physical, emotional, or sexual) do actually behave a lot in the same way Jenny does and yes, those behaviors can hurt their loved ones too. If you can root for Rue from Euphoria, you should be able to root for Jenny.

I watch this in school and love it. Tom Hanks is one of my favorite actors. BTW Zombies 3 is out on Disney+ now.

Actually, yes. It's true that taking care of your feet is incredibly important in war and they do teach soldiers that.

I absolutely love how realistic Jenny’s character is. I cannot imagine the things that were done to her as a little girl by the very man that was supposed to love and protect her. How could she not be left traumatized and further F- up all her experiences w men? Don’t think she got the support she needed after surviving that so she never felt worthy of Forest’s love. She was never cruel to him, she was lost initially then didn’t feel worthy. She is a more complicated character than Forest and in the end, she was able to be a good person and mother and wife. That is the reality of trauma survivors sometimes and she is not a villain by any means. Also, I’m sure this has been answered by other commenters but she died of AIDS.

Love your videos! About this specific reaction, I feel like a lot of reactors I've seen, specifically men, usually just don't understand Jenny's character from a psychological perspective-how being sexually abused can twist your perception of healthy relationships and make you self sabotage. It's a shame more people can't grasp this concept, as it is incredibly realistic and prevalent among real life victims. It doesn't mean that she should automatically be seen as a good girlfriend and that what she's doing is good/healthy for Forrest, clearly it's not, and ends up being very damaging, but it also doesn't mean that she's a "horrible person." Wish the nuance wasn't lost so often

And then the next year Tom Hanks turned around and made Philadelphia, and won an Oscar for that. Back to back years.

It's not the World Championships, it's the Ping Pong diplomacy of Nixon with Mao. They took a ping pong team to play with the Chinese.

In most of the "origin stories" here, obviously it's just fiction, but this literally is the origin of Bubba-Gump Shrimp. The book and film led to the creation of the restaurant (at least I think it's a restaurant?). There was no Bubba-Gump Shrimp before this.

Fun fact: Bubba Gump Shrimp was featured in the movie FIRST then the first location opened in California to take advantage of the popularity of the movie.

I love that Lt Dan marries a Vietnamese woman. It shows how he went from all that hate of everything surrounding Vietnam, to love.