FORREST GUMP (1994) MOVIE REACTION! First Time Watching!

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[@ryanje8147]

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

[@explorewithindiamovies7913]

Me too 🥹🥹🥹 !!! I don’t hate her ! I just didn’t like that she used forest ! Or better I don’t like how they played her in the movie

[@Fred-vy1hm]

@@explorewithindiamovies7913 she didn't use Forrest, she purposely stayed away from him because she felt she wasn't good enough for him. Running was her way of coping with her past but when she knew she was dying she ensured that her son would be taken care of by the one person in the world she truly loved and trusted, so despite how poorly she handled her own life she still deserves some credit for ultimately doing what was best before she exited this world.

[@GregorySnipe]

I was abused as a child, I have never treated anyone the way Jenny treats Forest. Jenny used and manipulated Forest.

[@Projectindia555]

@@GregorySnipe mannn !!!!!!!!!

[@gabrielledjt7939]

​@@GregorySnipe OMG stop using YOUR story for a universal thing !

[@jamesonyates2388]

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

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

jenny rejects forrest's advances because she doesn't love him. she can't love a retarded person. and neither can you. jenny rejects forrest's romantic love because they live in two seperate worlds. the differences in their intellect levels makes them incompatible. i'm tired of hearing this bull from people. could you fall in love with and marry a retarded person? you'd have nothing in common. it be like falling in love with and marrying a 9 year old. you wouldn't do it. so why condemn jenny for not doing it?

[@elysehfm8797]

@@cjmacq-vg8um, please update your language.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

@@elysehfm8797 ... update my language? what, to hide or alter reality? i'm not in favor of the fascism ploy of redefining words. i reject it completely. there's nothing wrong with calling a negro a negro. or a caucasian a caucasian. or a retarded person retarded. or a transgender person delusional. its called "the english language." let's remove the social stigma of these words not the words themselves. if someone is an idiot then calling them an idiot is no insult. nor is it demeaning. its just reality.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

@@elysehfm8797 ... btw, where's that 5 bucks you owe me? am i an idiot for suggesting something that's not true? YES! we need to start accepting reality again. denying reality to make people happy isn't a good thing.

[@Scarlet4623]

Jenny is trash.

[@lakecrazy]

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

[@xejelah]

Is it true that cigarettes were actually promoted as 'healthy'?

[@rridderbusch518]

@@xejelah Yes, the "Big Tobacco" Lobbyists did that. So many cigarette commercials on TV!

[@rozequinn1519]

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

[@SlayerO013]

In the scene where it looks like Jenny is going to jump from the building, the song "Freebird" is playing. Many of the lyrics seem to match Jenny quite well. Pretty sure it's not coincidence. Jenny and the damned birds! 😂 P.S. It will always be a badass song for me.

[@christhornycroft3686]

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.

[@Pineoilheavan]

I worked with a guy who went to high school with Robert Z in the Roseland neighborhood on Chicago’s south side. Highs cool for them was 1967.

[@RowdyRuth]

Jenny needs hugs! ❤

[@freedomconrad1087]

Jenny definitely needed help.

[@RowdyRuth]

@@freedomconrad1087 Hugs help!

[@nikkisatchel4699]

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

[@pheenobarbidoll2016]

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.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

well, you're on the right track that's for sure. jenny rejects forrest's advances because she doesn't love him. she can't love a retarded person. jenny rejects forrest's romantic love because they live in two seperate worlds. the differences in their intellect levels makes them incompatible. i'm tired of hearing this bull from people. could you fall in love with and marry a retarded person? you'd have nothing in common. it be like falling in love with and marrying a 9 year old. you wouldn't do it. so why condemn jenny for not doing it?

[@katheryns1219]

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.

[@lyssalovesit]

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

[@chrisofstars]

I'm surprised more people don't mention it since she's incessant about running away from everything

[@elysehfm8797]

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." 😅🤣

[@dameinnoble3995]

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.

[@rollotomassi6232]

I never saw my childhood doctor without a cigarette in his mouth.

[@agffans5725]

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.

[@melody9241]

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.

[@joecarr5412]

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

[@embriggs1]

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

[@dameinnoble3995]

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 KZbin unsubscribed me and I’ve not seen any of your vids for ages. Many Thanks 🙏🏾 🇳🇿🇺🇸

[@robbinsnest6163]

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

[@TippedScales106]

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)

[@xejelah]

In the book it was Hepatitis. I don't get why people act like she used him either. For what? She never asked anything of him. They saw each other, caught up on life, and moved on. Like most adult friendships. Found out she was preggers, wrote him letters, but he went out running for years.

[@TheBulle]

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

[@melody9241]

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

[@elysehfm8797]

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?

[@melody9241]

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

[@msdarby515]

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.”

[@mildredpierce4506]

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

[@sweetelisum]

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.

[@tomre2769]

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 :-)

[@shelia6870]

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.

[@GhostKyng]

Actually the author of the book said that she dies of hepatitis c which was unknown at the time until 1989

[@eloisapompa5048]

At first I thought it was Aids too. It was actually Hep-C.

[@xejelah]

Steve Jobs is Apple - Bill Gates is Microsoft.

[@rollotomassi6232]

Wrong, Hep-C

[@alexkuball2593]

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

[@msdarby515]

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.

[@Yawnzee_]

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.

[@neighborhoodangel2078]

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

[@idlertire]

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.

[@vovindequasahi]

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.

[@truckinfool3550]

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

[@ralphschmitt5859]

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

[@thegatheringgloom7261]

Everybody can be a better them. Well said!

[@faithshade1430]

Honey they used to have cigarette ads with doctors

[@DevlinDomini]

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

[@sharonhoyt2133]

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.

[@SunShine-qk4rb]

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

[@LiirThropp2687]

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.

[@gnome-ski]

the terrible thing about the ending of this movie is that they planned to do a 2nd movie and one of the screen writers said that jenny was sick with AIDS and her kid also has AIDS and forrest gets it from jenny and the whole 2nd movie was going to be about that. im kinda glad they didnt do the 2nd movie.

[@elysehfm8797]

Forrest Jr. is Haley Joel Osment from Sixth Sense, Pay It Forward, etc..

[@HalCogan]

2:10 I dunno, even as a kid watching this there was something inherently hilarious about the school principal being the one making the "bedroom noises" and not Forrest's mom like you'd expect...

[@jasonsimpson1397]

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.

[@melody9241]

Forrest is so sweet

[@robertcampomizzi7988]

34:03 in the early 80's they weren't sure how to classify HIV/AIDS. That's what they are implying that she has.

[@lisamayreed6399]

Great story ty for reacting❤😊

[@TheYoguiMonster]

I love the commentary as you go because then I think- ahh, she’ll know about that soon. Ex: the dirty shoes ♥️

[@justharrison6862]

Love the hair nice choice of color👌.

[@mixtec53]

The Jenny's perspective is always interesting with all reactors🤓

[@treblam1]

Everyone has their own personal "Jenny"...

[@Edmund545]

18:36 I agree, based off of this former Black Panther Leader's account, the movie does not do the party justice in this scene. My source comes from the YT video titled, "Black Panther Party Leader Rates 6 Black Panther Party Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It?" (00:31).

[@geogen1426]

You've got a new sub.

[@melody9241]

I always ran cause I was scared of men and never stepped out unless I get food or walk my dog and I hide. The stuff that happens to you doesn't go away no matter how much help you get from any doctors believe me I know. Sorry for saying what I'm saying but alot of people are against Jenny but some people have to understand what she's been through and it hurts to know that children get hurt like that.

[@Edmund545]

20:23 John Lennon

[@enjoi320]

love the reactions hope to see the new channel thrive!

[@rcstjean]

You should do Captain Phillips

[@Michael-vy2ec]

Jenny only knew how to RUN and she always told Forrest to RUN her abusive childhood made her that way

[@brian52763]

You have to remember that Forrest has the intelligence of a child! He is an "innocent"! To not be kind doesn't come naturally!

[@DaviDamir]

yeah its cider house rules style

[@elysehfm8797]

Glad you have over 1K views because I have a 35 minute ad here, lol! See you in a while! 😂😂😇

[@Robmcil]

I love this movie, and the message of it. This movie is adopted from a novel of the same name. The book is very good but very different from the movie. I will not go into detail but the book is a very different vibe than the movie. Loved your review of the movie.

[@mcm4point2o]

Jenny had hep C or some other IV drug-caused virus from sharing needles in the 70's when no one knew better. as to why she was so trifling' to Forrest the whole movie til' the end; hurt people hurt people.

[@TheAlmaward]

The singer whose name you couldn't remember was John Lennon. Also, it isn't made clear in the movie, or the first book, actually, but there's a sequel, in which the author states that Jenny died of Hepatitis C. (Most people watching the film think she had AIDS.) You asked at one point if this was real; I think you were kidding, but just in case: no, it's a fictional story. The movie is based on a novel. ;)

[@elysehfm8797]

The screenwriter says it was HIV/AIDS.

[@TheAlmaward]

@@elysehfm8797 Good for him. The author of the books says Hep C. I think the author would know best.

[@elysehfm8797]

@@TheAlmaward, the author says Hep C in the SECOND book. HIV/AIDS was implied in the first book.

[@TheAlmaward]

@@elysehfm8797 yes, thank you, that's exactly what I said in my original post. Duh.

[@trentbobo4171]

I know Forrest is a fictional character but, he makes me proud to be from Alabama.

[@lee6198]

Jenny would have made Forrest life hell if she was with him before she seemingly got help. She couldn't help it. She would have attracted danger and just plain crap and it would have affected Forrest. She was a drug addict and hated herself. How could she love anyone if she didnt love herself? But also. Jenny is Forrests FRIEND..she doesn't owe him sex or a relationship just cos Forrest loves her. It's a little old and kinda rapey to expect women to have sex with a man she is friends with just cos he likes her and is nice to her. I shudder to think of all the men I would have " owed" sex to. Women should think about the boys when they were teens and the men when they were adults that they didn't like in that way but who liked you....and were nice to you.....think about having sex with them and/or a relationship with them just because THEY liked YOU!!!

[@toodlescae]

Wow I didn't realize you hadn't watched this yet.

[@merkitten953]

Jusr curious, would you get with a man with lower than average iq, who you cared about very much but only loved platonically, because he was in love with you?

[@explorewithindiamovies7913]

Yes actually my bf is a lil slower 🥹🥹😭

[@tammyknoll1496]

Jenny runs too.

[@explorewithindiamovies7913]

Yes 🥹🥹🥹

[@jasonegeland1446]

Who will have all men to be saved and to come to a realization of the truth. (1 Timothy 2:4) Our salvation isn't something we earn ourselves as religious traditionalists teach. It was given by Jesus Christ. Grace = unmerited favor, something we don't deserve, but is given to us regardless. Some are saved by belief and the rest are saved by judgment (judgment means correction, and all of God's judgments lead to righteousness). Evangel the real good news and victorious Gospel of Christ Jesus, the complete and victorious savior of the whole world:)

[@wizloon9052]

This movie (and the book) were never based on a true story. 100% fiction.

[@KWP1111]

Sharing needles. Shooting herion

[@aaronbarlow4376]

Imma friendzone you for your whole life and let you marry me when I'm a single mum with AIDs, lol.

[@henryfuller8566]

Forrest Gump 2 was canceled because of 9/11. A joke about terrorists or bombings proabaly inbad taste at the time

[@willdallas53]

No it wasn’t. That movie was never going to be made. They just bought it to pay off the author to settle disputes over the pay with the forest Gump movie.

[@henryfuller8566]

Then maybe they'll still make it in a hundred years or son.

[@josephblow3581]

Jenny came down with hep c. I thought it was aids too for the longest time.

[@xejelah]

LMAO! No, it isn't. Siobhan Fallon Hogan - also played the wife of Edgar in Men In Black.

[@josephblow3581]

@@xejelah well... thank you for setting me straight on that. I could have sworn I read that somewhere. now I have to edit

[@Winchester1984]

That said, what's clear is that Jenny dies of Hepatitis C in the second book, while she dies of AIDS in the movies, even though it was only implied. Notably, Hepatitis C was discovered in 1989, which is why the doctors could do little for Jenny in the '80s

[@Keysdwj]

Enjoy watching your reactions, wish I could donate, but stroke and no income for over a yeah leaves me wanting.

[@XwolfXXangelX]

Like with 90% of most reactors. U didnt understand jenny lol. Be nice reaction 👍

[@explorewithindiamovies7913]

Yeah she messed up but also she selfish . 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@jessfusco8]

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!

[@tb5124]

Exactly, she had no reason to hide it from him. I think ppl forget they couldn’t just text or dm a person lol. And they just like hating Jenny for some reason.

[@pheenobarbidoll2016]

That and he himself has a the mind of a child. Why would she want to burden him with an adult situation like being a parent, when it would be akin to a child raising a child>

[@melody9241]

Exactly 💯

[@JemJam2976]

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.

[@freedomconrad1087]

I always felt sorry for Jenny. I didn't like how she hurt Forrest, but I understand why she did. I think she knew her life was messed up and didn't want to drag Forrest down with her.

[@flarrfan]

She had to learn to love herself before she could truly love Forrest.

[@freedomconrad1087]

@@flarrfan Exactly.

[@illuminahde]

​@@thebackyardbear Jenny is for the streets. Prostitute sexually assaults mentally challenged childhood friend and then pawns off a kid on him after she finds out he's a multi-millionaire and she has AIDS. Jenny is for the streets

[@ellenjones7819]

@@freedomconrad1087 I agree with you. There were no support groups or therapy for sexually abused children in the 1950s/60s. It took her a long time to figure things out. Even today, there are a lot of messed up people who aren't able to heal from that type of trauma.

[@brian52763]

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

[@YoureMrLebowski]

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

[@xejelah]

You have a good memory

[@belinda9696]

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.

[@williamjones6031]

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.

[@tb5124]

Oo that last one, great point.

[@alainvachon6255]

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).

[@lakecrazy]

Southerners talk to strangers

[@chrisofstars]

I get really uncomfortable when strangers try to talk to me in this manner

[@micheletrainor1601]

Omg maybe I should go get a check up. I thought it was just good manners to pass the time of day to people if sat by them for a while. .

[@kristymcdowell6185]

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.

[@robotto8858]

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.

[@michaelstach5744]

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.

[@rridderbusch518]

Yes, we Boomers lived through every scene of Forest Gump one way or another. It's too bad she cut it off at "...invested in a fruit company." I hope the viewers made the connection.

[@TayannaStudios]

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.

[@leondasellis9854]

John Lennon is the name you were searching your memory for

[@Oddworld2024]

RIP John.

[@sabrecatsmiladon7380]

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

[@willdallas53]

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.

[@PatrickORourke-xz3kp]

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

[@MelvinCanty]

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.

[@cshubs]

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.

[@trinasp]

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.

[@meghanmonroe]

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.

[@elysehfm8797]

Agreed.

[@joemaynard7774]

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[@davideddy8557]

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