![]() ![]() What is Forrest's reaction, and a move that is supposed to illicit tears for the audience? He gets all choked up and asks. But then comes the moment when he goes back to Jenny's apartment and she makes him realize that her son is their son. There's more to the story, of course, but in regards to Forrest's character and what it is able to get away with the central point is that a "slow" boy or man is no less human and in this case a damn sight less cruel and judgmental than so many of the "normal" people he encounters. The throughline of the movie is, "Stupid is as stupid does" and his Momma's dogged and sometimes fierce defense of Forrest as no worse than anybody else on the planet just because his I.Q. No, it's the betrayal of the central message of the film at the end there when he actually meets Forrest Jr. Other than her "Run, Forrest! Run!" when they're kids and the natural sympathy you have for her with the implication of her Hellish childhood in her home, afterwards when she is grown she really is a bit of a ditz who unintentionally but also unfeelingly treats Forrest like *****, that is until she hits the end of her road and finally realizes what a swell fella he is and oh by the way has no more options left.īut my biggest problem with Forrest Gump isn't really the Jenny character, though she is poorly written. Now, I like Forrest Gump a lot as entertainment, but my wife hates it because of the way she feels it trashes the Jenny character.Yeah, Jenny really isn't much of a character to like. However, I never considered that the male characters had HIV, but that doesn't mean anything except that I didn't. Based on the events depicted, the film's "present day" has to be the early 1980s which coincides with the idea which the virus Jenny mentions is HIV. Haley Joel Osment who plays Junior at the end of the film was five when it was being filmed. Even if they were, it would be with HIV first and not AIDS, so it may not present itself for many years, if ever, and when it did it may be treatable at the HIV stage in the way that say Magic Johnson has dealt with his diagnosis for nearly twenty years now.īut.you do know it's just a movie, yes? ![]() I haven't read the novel on which the film was based, so I don't know if it is covered any more explicitly in the book, but I think the clear implication in the flick is that neither Gump is infected. So when dealing with a piece of fiction, as Forrest Gump is, it still leaves plenty of room for a happy if unlikely ending. Not good odds, obviously, but also not a certainty. Even though an HIV-positive woman can transmit the virus to her baby during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and through breastfeeding, even if she takes no preventive drugs and breastfeeds the chance of her baby becoming infected is around 20-45%. It's a bit of Russian Roulette, of course, but not an automatic thing. However, even an undiagnosed woman who carried the baby to term would not necessarily transmit HIV to the child, or to a lover in one sexual coupling. ![]() Yes, the implication is that it was AIDS that killed Jenny. My favorite movie of all time and I'll never be able to look at the same way. But I really think thats what the story implied. I know this whole theory is based on the assumption that Jenny did, in fact, die from AIDS. So because she was so reckless and loose in her younger days, that poor little kid got AIDS? And probably Forest too, since I assume they boned after she came back for the last time and got married? I doubt she picked up the virus after she had the kid, because it seemed like she got her act together and was a responsible parent and not a whore anymore. If not, she could have picked it up after she left him and ran away again (during which time she had the kid and got the waitressing job), but that means that the KID still got the AIDS from her blood during pregnancy. She came back had sex with Forest after her wild partying days and its entirely possible that she passed it onto him. so it seems like all signs point to AIDS. And when she was diagnosed, the doctors didnt know what it was. It seems like Jenny died from AIDS, because she had a lot of sex and shared needles with people all throughout the 70's (when HIV/AIDS was spreading and no one knew). ![]()
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