Actually, when Forrest received all those letters in the hospital, they were were not from Jenny. They were his own letters that were returned to him as "Undeliverable" because Jenny had no address. She was no longer at home, and was a wandering soul. A truly sad moment, to know that his words of love, caring and loneliness never reached her.
Forrest and Jenny are a good example of nature vs nurture. Jenny had no disability but her horrible childhood literally crippled her emotionally. Forrest had definite cognitive issues but had a great parent and was a whole, healthy person.
Well said,I believe that's it in a nutshell,I always tear up at the point when Jenny dies,now Forest is alone again,even though he has his son,he needs a wife to love and be loved.
Y'know, I grew up with this film. As I'm older now, it's the moment when he asks "Is he smart or is he...." I shed tears every time I see that scene these days, because it's the first time he acknowledges his difficulties while expressing his selflessness.
That scene gets me every time too. I don't know if it was meant to be that impactful or if Tom Hanks made it so because he's such a phenomenal actor. Either way, it's so great
He wanted better for his kid than he had for himself. Parental instincts " I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is". I teared up just typing that. My dad was a smart man and when a tumor took his speech he couldn't say much but he wanted me to be happy. He could still get those words out just barely.
I laughed so much at your “ew, people” shirt! In Quebec, in my highschool 20th century North American history class, the teacher showed us the movie. Gump simply took part in every major US event of his lifetime.
People like Jenny often feel guilt or blame themselves for the abuse they've suffered. She did not feel like she deserved Forrest, "You don't wanna marry me." Her instinct was to run from her troubles, like she always told Forrest to do. Like Jenny, Forrest was running his whole life, "If I was going somewhere, I was running!" When he decided to run "for no particular reason," he was really running after Jenny, or the thought of her. Eventually, both Forrest and Jenny become tired of running. When Jenny has Forrest's child she discovers she is capable of loving and accepting love. She finally feels she is worthy of Forrest. They can both stop running.
It's not that she didn't feel deserving of Forrest, it's that she wasn't attracted to him. That was just her excuse to reject him. Her running away is a metaphor for what happens when a woman in this situation is rejecting a guy without actually rejecting him. She only metaphorically became tired of running because she hit the wall and couldn't ho around like she was and attract the men she really wanted. On top of that, doesn't it strike you as odd that she only got with Forrest after hitting the wall and coming down with an incurable disease and after Forrest became a millionaire? That right there proves she never loved him. She only loves that he was there to be her little beta provider. Now to be fair, I'm not calling him that, but that's what she viewed him as. She only loves what he can do for her. She also never "felt worthy" of his love. The only reason it seemed that way was because, again, she hit the wall and couldn't attract the man she really wanted and settled for Forrest as a last resort. That's not love, that's a necessity. Even though this movie was made for a different purpose, this movie gives good commentary on why you as a guy can never pedastalize a woman. m.ruclips.net/video/d0j41jwc9iY/видео.html
@@Ddx629 Forrest left home shortly after she left. He was gone for 3yrs and some months so there was no way to find him. He wouldn't have gotten her letters. If she sent them all to the house, he wouldn't have seen them until he got back anyway. He announced that he was going home. That meant it was broadcasted that his running says were over and she could finally reach him. She was an abused and sexually assaulted child who didn't have clear understandings about herself or how to go about healthy connections. She didn't want to taint his pure goodness with her damaged self. Can't love someone else if you can't love yourself or deal with what your demons have done to you. Like a lot of people, having a kid opens up their eyes and hearts to getting focused and learning how to love unconditionally. If she was all about the money and not cared for him, she would have stuck around and married him to gold dig him. So, clearly she wasn't after his provisions. Also, death has a way of making you not want to waste anymore regretted time missed with a life of happiness you didn't have for the majority of it. The boy was his, so how was she wrong for wanting to build a connection of father and son and for securing her son's survival when she knew she would die? With them being married, that means he has no legal hoops to jump through for being the legal guardian after she is gone. Again, that's beneficiary to Forrest and their son. Not a bad thing. Even if that weren't the case, she could have just dumped him at the house and took off. She got her life together and did some maturing, but you're making it sound like she was some black widow trying to steal his soul and fortune.... What's that about?
Jenny's messy behaviors are some of the textbook examples of unhealed childhood trauma. The abuse of her father left her feeling worthless, dirty, and like a sex object who had to use her body to keep the men in her life happy, and probably also confused sex for love. She couldn't recognize how wrong the abuse was from her boyfriends because it had been normalized by her father her entire life. She turned to drugs because it numbed the pain and anxiety she often felt as she most likely had undiagnosed PTSD. People have a tendency to subconsciously seek out relationships that resemble the relationships we had with our primary caretakers. We dont understand that we keep repeating unhealthy dynamics because it's all we've ever known, and often don't realize there is a better option available, or don't feel worthy of a partner who could treat us better. With therapy, corrective experiences within healthy relationships, and healing, we can often achieve happier, healthier lives after a while, as Jenny does after she has baby Forrest. But people who don't realize why we behave unhealthily often put a lot of blame and shame on us for those early behaviors. Our traumas are not our fault, but our healing and recovery IS our responsibility 💖
According to Tom Hanks, Forrest’s speech was as follows: “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.”
We do get to hear Forrest say, "In Vietnam...." before the mike is cut off. But the above line does sound like what Forrest would have said, resulting in the reaction from Abbie Hoffman: "That's so right on, man. You said it all."
Just so you know Jenny never wrote him back those are all returned to sender. Y’all keep up the great work. my brother and I watched this in the movies 11 times.
Also the men on the horses with sheets were the ku Klux Klan. Not what most would call good people. They're very racist against anyone who isn't " white"
I think Jenny's psychology is a bit self-loathing. Not so much that she looked down on Forrest but rather the opposite. He was too genuine for her ,already-fragile self worth, to handle. But at the same time she loved him enough not to wish her own broken and troubled character on him as if making an honest assessment of her unworthiness of him.
You guys are quickly becoming my favorite reaction channel! Your energy and excitement while watching these movies is so much fun to watch. And yeah I agree, Jenny was a "messy messy girl"😂
@@theloudguysmovies A movie suggestion : Amelie. It's a French movie, a little bit qwerky, and maybe it's compatible with Indian culture. You guys should check it out 😉
Jenny couldnt have told him about his child sooner, he was running back and forth across the country for 3 years. She sent him a letter and he read it when he returned home.
Both Jenny and Forrest were flawed people; Forrest mentally and Jenny emotionally the world is full of bizarre and interesting intersections and in the end the legit truth of love, however flawed came through. Life really is like a box of chocolates you just dont know what your gonna get but its not what you get but how you handle what you get that is really the bittersweet nectar of life. :) Its a very emotional beautiful movie. So glad you two took the time to react to it.
Yes, both Jenny and Forrest were flawed people the difference was Jenny knew it and Forrest didn't. By Forrest not realizing his flaws it never became a life long obstacle in his endeavors.
I don't know how it is in other countries, but in America, many women gravitate towards guys who treat them like complete trash. It's a rather mysterious phenomenon that should be studied at a university level.
I love the dichotomy in this movie that Forrest wasn't "smart" in like, an academic sense, but he was raised in a loving home and was good at handling all the crazy things his life threw at him. Jenny was "smart" but messed up from her abusive childhood and not good at handling life. Our culture places so much emphasis on being "smart" but he was the happier, more successful person being a simple, good man.
In the scene where Forrest gets back a giant pile of letters, those are not letters from Jenny. Those are the letters he wrote returned to him unopened. She never read them.
I love this movie (and not just because I am from Alabama), and how it highlights past historical events. Jenny never felt worthy of his love due to her childhood. I believe she would have told him she were pregnant, but he was on the run so she had no way to contact him really. Wonderful reaction!
Jenny had very low self esteem for so long and she knew Forrest was too good for her, which is why she kept being drawn to idiots that didn't treat her well, she thought that is what she deserved, it took her a long time to grow up and realize her own value to be able to love Forrest back, a lot of people(both boys and girls) make the same long journey in life before they understand themself
I really love this movie, I'm happy you were able to watch it! (sidenote) I'm not sure if you realised afterward, but Jenny hadn't written Forrest back. All those letters you saw were marked 'return to sender'. 😊
29:44 The story about Jenny is that her father was molesting her sisters and her when they were children. Due to this trauma, she is self-destructive for most of her life. She does not feel like she has any value as a person. She does love Forest but when she says, "You don't want to marry me" ... she means that he deserves someone better than her.
Most people misunderstand Jenny not wanting to marry Forrest. She didn’t think he wasn’t good enough for her. She felt that SHE wasn’t good enough for him.
When Jenny is on the balcony and at her lowest point - the song playing is “Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Lyrics: If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me? For I must be traveling on now 'Cause there's too many places I've got to see But if I stay here with you, girl Things just couldn't be the same 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now *And this bird you cannot change Oh, oh, oh, oh And the bird you cannot change And this bird, you cannot change Lord knows, I can't change* Bye-bye, baby, it's been sweet love, yeah, yeah Though this feelin' I can't change Please don't take it so badly 'Cause Lord knows, I'm to blame If I stay here with you, girl Things just couldn't be the same 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now And this bird you cannot change Oh, oh, oh, oh And the bird you cannot change And this bird, you cannot change Lord knows, I can't change Lord help me, I can't change Lord, I can't change Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah
I always felt Jenny wanted to love him, but his innocents reminded her of when she was a child, making her wonder if she would be taking advantage of him much like she was as a child. Also i think she couldnt have gottwn ahold of forrest about his son because he was running across the country! Also you two are amazing, i saw your green mile on my suggested videos and yiur reactions and personalities are so beautiful!
I’m sure if I read the comments, somebody would have said that Forest is on the, “autistic spectrum” meaning, he most likely has autism, is autistic. Those are the terms for his condition. I have a family member that is on the spectrum.❤❤❤❤❤ I’m so glad I found this channel. I have been subscribed to your other channel for a while, but I’m so excited to have found this!
What a wonderful movie! A full semester of history could be taught just from the events in which Forrest finds himself embroiled. I will be crying multiple times. Life is hard, but Forrest finds a way to stay positive, so that gives me hope.
Theres a series on US Netflix called "The Movies That Made Us" in which each episode of the 3 seasons focuses on the making of what are considered to be Classic American movies, such as Rocky, Home Alone, Jurassic Park, and of course Forrest Gump. Watching the episode covering Forrest Gump puts into perspective how this movie almost didn't exist at all and that the people who wanted to make this had to fight so hard to actually accomplish that. The biggest example would be the famous Run Across America, it was actually kept secret from the Studio because of the budget needed to shoot all those iconic scenes. They would sometimes shoot in one location and in the same day fly somewhere else to shoot, even recruiting Tom Hank's own brother as a running double! If you ever get the chance to watch any episode of The Movies That Made Us, I highly recommend checking it out to appreciate the hard work that goes into these movies
Poor Jenny spent so much of her life acting out because she did not feel worthy of Forest's love. Sometimes when girls are abused when they are very small, they act very self destructively for years until they get help. Jenny followed a pattern common to abused people.
Jenny's dad was sexually abusing her, and she was so young it scarred her & put her on a downward trajectory. She always had love for Forrest and in actuality she loved him enough to not contaminate his life. 💞
There are many different cultures throughout the US, but being from the southeastern US, I can say without a doubt that the most accurate part of this movie is that we will start a conversation with anyone and end up telling our whole life story. Seriously, it's happened to me three times this week, and I've done it to at least two in the past month.
I think the moral of this story is that you don't have to be a smart person to achieve anything you put your mind into. He was a simple minded man but he lived a full life ❤
Yeah, Forrest had a good mother. No matter what opened up to him or stood in his way in life, he just went for it. No long regrets or self-pity, he just went his way with a good heart. Even if the story is of course movie magic and maybe a bit naive, I think it's a nice message. That it pays, to be a decent person, no matter what. You can't control the things that happen to you. You can only control yourself and your own reaction to things. Don't wait for the world to give you some happiness, give it to yourself by beeing a nice, brave, kind-hearted person.
I always thought the reason why Jenny always told Forrest he didn't know what love was. Because deep down inside she didn't know what real love felt like and the one person who did show her that love it scared her.
Jenny was much abused as a child and this led to her erratic life, substance abuse and bad decisions. I think she did not want to burden Forest. When she found out she was dying she wanted to make sure their son was taken care of. Keep in mind that at the time they didn’t know a lot about HIV/AIDS or how it was spreading. All she knew was that the doctors said she was dying and they didn’t know what it was.
So glad that you do get Jenny for the most part by the end. I think Jenny was the second most important person in the movie. The movie showed her life from basically the same time as it started with Forest. It's right that you picked up on the abuse but [some other reactors got Jenny wrong, allot of reactors love Forest so much they don't like Jenny] she truly loved Forest and had the same deep down kind nature as he. She was the only one to befriend him on the bus at the very start to show her good nature. [and continued to be his good friend through high school, imagine how hard that was with all the bullies still on Forrest's case, so to speak] Others will comment on the trauma she would have had to deal with [an obviously very deep wounding of her] so I won't go into that, just point out that they [as the two main subjects of the plot] were basically two kind hearted and worthy people from two different upbringings. She talks of how their lives are so different. [recognizing her flaws] She repeatedly tells Forrest She Does Love Him [always in a sad tone, knowing she could hurt the one true constant good in her life if she let him into hers then] And not wanting to hurt the only true one she did love would say "You don't want to marry me" [imagine how it must have hurt her to have to tell him that?!!]. She had to fix herself [with no help from anyone in those days -totally on her own to heal herself] before worthiness could take place. Forrest helped everyone! And the way he helped her was finally to let her find the first true lovemaking she had ever done after she recovered at his house. [her choice finally to see it's OK to have a good man watch over her as she obviously made the best decision of her life to "clean up" -with all the sleeping that was needed] When she agreed with Forrest that he would make a good husband on those stairs it led to the final "fix" that happened when she would have felt so badly when he thought she didn't love him. She finally allowed herself to express to him [and herself] the lovemaking she had never known and was always afraid to accept. It was real. It was good. [for both of them] And it was time to leave [yes, once again] but this time Not Running. It was time to make herself a good clean life without his help to be sure she wouldn't hurt him to be with him. [remember she was really new to the clean life, with just those few weeks or so clean so far] She proved it to herself and it is clear that was his child [by their same head movements from the start even though they had never met] It isn't clear in the movie but she may well have written the letter for him to come before she found out her condition [he was running for years] and either way I believe she would have contacted Forrest about his child even if she had not come down with Hepatitis C [or aids] Remember when she left the last time she would not have known she was pregnant yet, just that she needed to be sure she was worthy to live up to the love she felt for him that night of her first true loving. Two deep down Good People, with very different lives who non the less helped each other throughout their life's even as differently as it went for them. One finding it very easy to let the deep-down good person show, the other struggling greatly to let that nature show. Together it showed in both of them easily. It was a true love story from beginning to end. That's all I got to say about that.
I love the appreciation for the line, "sometimes, there just aren't enough rocks". It's such a simple line, but has such a deep meaning that I think a lot of people can relate to.
I love this movie. Given how tied it is to events from American history it’s interesting to see how much foreigners do or don’t understand. If there’s a subtitled or dubbed version of ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ I wonder how much of it I would understand.
No. They attempted to simply duplicate the original Forrest Gump while making Laal Singh Chadda, which didn’t make sense in Indian context. So that movie failed.
This film was like seeing a section of U.S. history through a cracked lens. Forrest and his simple purity was the juxtaposition to the messiness and chaos of American and world events. With Jenny and Forrest and their tumultuous relationship, opposites really do attract.
I watched this movie on DVD/ VHS first when I was 15 after it came out. Needless to say I was touched by it. It’s the only movie that holds up the same way until this day and doesn’t lose its magic
'Forest Gump', once in a lifetime experience! It's playing with every human emotions like love,hate,anger,surprise etc.What a performance by Tom Hanks ❤️ P.S- I atleast watched it 20-22 times and it is my top 5 movies list 😅
Love the reaction!!!! So when Forrest meet his son for the first time, Jenny couldn't tell Forrest, cause he was running the whole time. About 4 years. When he stopped and returned home, Jenny knew she could mail him the letter.
To answer your questions: A GI is a basic soldier, a member of the "general infantry." Bubba might have volunteered and was accepted for service; there was also a "draft" during the Vietnam War in which young men of a certain age were _required_ to serve. He may not have had a choice. The line "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is," isn't about Jennie "needing a smart man." It's a reaction to the scene on the bridge, when Forrest told Jennie "I love you," and she said "You don't even know what love is." I do love your reactions!
You say you don’t cry, I’m about to watch you both in next.. 1, American history, X, 2: Shawshank redemption: and then I will need some thing happy, so Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure😂 Sending love to you and your families from Orlando, Florida, I Heather, Spence, McCoy
Yes someone else commented but all those letters were returned to Forest because the address for Jenny has changed. Jenny was moving all around the country doing drugs. So none of his letters ever reached her. And they returned them all to him.
Lt. Dan, Gary Senise was in Stephen King's The Stand, a 1990s made for tv movie that clocks in around 6 hours, definitely worth watching. The opening montage and credits uses Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult perfectly, just the right amount of cowbell.
Actually, no, Jenny did not write back to Forrest when he was in Vietnam. The postage marks indicate that the letters Forrest had sent to Jenny were never delivered and they were returned to him. Jenny did not have a stable address during that time and was no longer living at her grandmother's home.
I'm fairly certain that Tom Hanks always appears in GOOD movies ONLY! lol. I was in 7th grade when he was Jim Lovell in 'Apollo 13'- Its such a masterwork by Director Ron Howard that the launch sequence segment and other scenes STILL resonate with me! ☝🏻😮💨
Remember, while Jenny gave birth to young Forrest and was raising him, he was on his 3 year run back in forth across the United States!! I love this movie and I loved your reactions!!
and that adorable little boy playing Forrest Jr. is Haley Joel Osment, who went on to be in movies like The 6th Sense, Pay It Forward, A.I., and Second Hand Lions (he's now an adult and still acting on TV... he wears a huge beard now).
Same with the return letters Jenny couldn't contact Forest to tell him he had a kid because Forest was on the run for 3 years. Same like Jenny, she had no address
Lucky me I take a picture at the same park where this movie was filming, the bench was put at a museum but they replaced with another one before people trash it, at Savanah ga, here at the United States!!
I enjoy how animated you guys get when watching movies, it makes it fun. This is a cool movie that has so many emotional swings with some good messages. Fun reaction guys.
Really fun watching you two. It's great to hear perspective from two people on the opposite side of the world that share a different culture! It's not all bad in the USA, and I believe there are more good people than bad. Cheers!
I love watching the reactions from other countries just for that reason. Some people complain because the movies are edited, but that doesn't bother me at all because the movies are ones that I already know so well. So, the reactions bring a new element to the movies
0:51 I would love to know the difference, in the two versions of both! I already have Shawshank redemption queued up to play next. I’m so glad to find you did a movie channel!
34:50 - So if Jenny has HIV/AIDS and is dying as she said. By that same rationale if Forest had sex with his newly wed wife without protection, there is a high likelihood he has it as well. That will mean he will die and possibly leave the son as an orphan. So, is this really a happy story? Or was it a story of Jenny continually being selfish and making bad decisions?
@@MrCzerillo Yes, I agree. My attempt was to not insult his intellect. What I know is after marriage for "ME" condoms went out of the window. Again, for me and many that I know/knew. That is ultimate trust and connection. Remember he only had sex with her. So, 1 time and possibly more...
@@davidmc1489 If you look at the movie in full and think about the time-line, she described the disease in better detail and that was also about the time of the introduction of HIV/AIDs in the USA.
You guys are quickly becoming one of my favorite reactors, i love your enthusiasm for movies :) i know you seem to only be doing movies right now, but i'd love it if you reacted to The Sopranos- it would draw in more audience, and i promise by the 2nd or 3rd ep you'll be addicted! Its THE show that changed telwvision, and its worth the hype 😎
To me, Forest represents the honest, loyal, and humble core that we all have inside us, and Jenny represents restlessness, rashness, and searching for meaning that we all go through. It's set against the backdrop of American History from 1950 on, and, I think, in doing so, it says the qualities of both Forest and Jenny, which were sometimes at conflict, symbolized the American character during that history. Both of you really related to the honest, loyal and humble forest, and from watching your reaction I can see his admirable qualities in you both.
One Times Square, where the ball is dropped on New Year, has a cool history, the building underneath is shaped like a triangle and made of limestone and marble with steel and concrete on the upper levels that were added later. The building has 2 observation decks now, $42 per person and up to $400 a head for private gatherings they probably makes more money than the billboards.
Men,no matter the culture get super emotional with this movie because most of us have been there where we would love and would do anything for a woman but have been destroyed emotionally one way or another. This reaction made me tear up because the man is so smart and understood the hell Forrest was going thru😢😢😢 Great Reaction!
He manage to hit a ton of major historical events in those decades of American history... the entire move is a constant stream of American history references
The scenes of Presidents and other similar scenes in history were actual footage and they dubbed Forest into the scene - that was a really cool effect. Jenny was screwed up in the head because of her dad abusing her sexually as a little girl, she ended up being a hippy and doing drugs and being with wicked men, but she straightened up her life and did the right thing to give Forest his son in the end.
Jenny never felt good enough for Forrest. She felt unworthy from the time she was little because it's implied at the beginning that her father was sexually abusive, as well as violent. Forrest didn't understand at the time. That's why he said, "He was a loving man. He was always kissing and touching her." She felt dirty. That's why she chose the life she did, a life of destruction. It took facing death for her to realize that what she needed the entire time was always there. Forrest loved her from the first moment he saw her and never stopped.
Jenny never wrote back, his letters were returned unopened because Jenny was no longer living with her grandma, she went travelling with hippies in that beat up '61 VW van and never knew Forrest had been writing to her.
Jenny's abuse deeply affected her. Love and abuse we're intertwined, so she ended up with men who abused her. And on some level, she may have felt that being with Forrest would be abusing an innocent. She also saw herself as tainted. She lived Forrest, but hated herself. She kept fleeing her pain, only to recreate it. She only found peace when she had a child she could take care of and only then felt worthy of a man who truly loved her.
15:00. Those letters are not FROM Jenny. Those are the letters Forrest wrote to her and they were returned ‘Return To Sender’. She never read his letters. She sent them all back to him.
This movie won best picture of the year over Shawshank Redemption. I have always thought the academy made the wrong decision. I'm sure it won because it shows so.many more locations and is an American history lesson. Both are very good films. (I love Kaura's laughter. The sound is so delightful to the ear and pleasant to the soul)
The first 2 and a half years his son was alive he was running from his problems literally so Jenny couldn't get a hold of him and there's no timeline after he got home when she messaged him so it's hard to know.
Respect. As you young people watch this movie, your reactions are sometimes slightly off...but I think you realize later...I like your reviews though because you both are smart, and kind. If I may add, sometimes, these movies are a truly unique, American Experience that can only be understood, immediately, if you've been born here. But you treat it with respect , and so, it is appreciated. There is a LOT of thought here... :)
Jenny was a broken and damaged girl inside. It was never that she didn’t want Forest, it was that she was trying to run from her past and she never believed she was good enough for him.
Jenny couldn’t reach Forrest to tell him about his son. There weren’t cell phones or email back then, and he had been running the country for 2-3 years.
Jenny is a complicated character, and I feel like people often oversimply her. She wasn't a bad person obviously, and actually, given a better childhood, would likely have turned out much different. However, she did make choices that were damaging to others like Forrest. That's why I liker her character, because she's complicated, like most people.
My take on this film is that Forrest was on the autism spectrum. All those accomplishments he accumulated was out of luck. He kept his promise to Bubba and has never given up on shrimping, no matter how difficult it was. He never let the fame go to his head, and remained humble. For the most part, he had an innocent mind and a good heart. He didn't even give it a second thought when he handed Vivian her notebook after she dropped it. Jenny felt like she didn't deserve to be with Forrest, because she went through a rough life with an abusive dad, drug use and hung around with a rather unpleasant crowd. Just like Mama Gump said: life's a box of chocolates. You'll never know what you're gonna get. Oh, in case you're curious about what having a million dollar wound means, it's a wound that is not crippling or fatal, but bad enough to take you off the battlefield. I think Jenny had died from Hepatitis C, according to the book.
“Such a messy girl.” You said it best. This is a classic movie, delighted that you enjoyed it! Also, there is a great suspense thriller/horror movie that is scary because it is soo realistic. The movie is called: “Breakdown” starring Kurt Russell. I highly recommend it! Love to my Hindu brothers & sisters from the American Jewish community.
Actually, when Forrest received all those letters in the hospital, they were were not from Jenny. They were his own letters that were returned to him as "Undeliverable" because Jenny had no address. She was no longer at home, and was a wandering soul. A truly sad moment, to know that his words of love, caring and loneliness never reached her.
i figured this comment would be easy to find.. its odd how so many reactors arent famliar with mail addresses
Oh Wow
I assume he kept them and maybe presented them to her some point later on
@@theloudguysmovies hey, why are you so loud.. its early in the morning
@@longfootbuddy - It's always happy hour somewhere...
Forrest and Jenny are a good example of nature vs nurture. Jenny had no disability but her horrible childhood literally crippled her emotionally. Forrest had definite cognitive issues but had a great parent and was a whole, healthy person.
Well said,I believe that's it in a nutshell,I always tear up at the point when Jenny dies,now Forest is alone again,even though he has his son,he needs a wife to love and be loved.
Y'know, I grew up with this film. As I'm older now, it's the moment when he asks "Is he smart or is he...." I shed tears every time I see that scene these days, because it's the first time he acknowledges his difficulties while expressing his selflessness.
Same..
That moment you realize that all the time he was very aware of his problem
That scene and where he puts the letter unopened at her grave, saying he promised he won’t read it first, gets me every time… 😢
That scene gets me every time too. I don't know if it was meant to be that impactful or if Tom Hanks made it so because he's such a phenomenal actor. Either way, it's so great
He wanted better for his kid than he had for himself. Parental instincts " I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is". I teared up just typing that.
My dad was a smart man and when a tumor took his speech he couldn't say much but he wanted me to be happy. He could still get those words out just barely.
I laughed so much at your “ew, people” shirt!
In Quebec, in my highschool 20th century North American history class, the teacher showed us the movie. Gump simply took part in every major US event of his lifetime.
People like Jenny often feel guilt or blame themselves for the abuse they've suffered. She did not feel like she deserved Forrest, "You don't wanna marry me." Her instinct was to run from her troubles, like she always told Forrest to do. Like Jenny, Forrest was running his whole life, "If I was going somewhere, I was running!" When he decided to run "for no particular reason," he was really running after Jenny, or the thought of her. Eventually, both Forrest and Jenny become tired of running. When Jenny has Forrest's child she discovers she is capable of loving and accepting love. She finally feels she is worthy of Forrest. They can both stop running.
Holy fuck!!! What a amazing analogie
It's not that she didn't feel deserving of Forrest, it's that she wasn't attracted to him. That was just her excuse to reject him. Her running away is a metaphor for what happens when a woman in this situation is rejecting a guy without actually rejecting him. She only metaphorically became tired of running because she hit the wall and couldn't ho around like she was and attract the men she really wanted. On top of that, doesn't it strike you as odd that she only got with Forrest after hitting the wall and coming down with an incurable disease and after Forrest became a millionaire? That right there proves she never loved him. She only loves that he was there to be her little beta provider. Now to be fair, I'm not calling him that, but that's what she viewed him as. She only loves what he can do for her. She also never "felt worthy" of his love. The only reason it seemed that way was because, again, she hit the wall and couldn't attract the man she really wanted and settled for Forrest as a last resort. That's not love, that's a necessity. Even though this movie was made for a different purpose, this movie gives good commentary on why you as a guy can never pedastalize a woman.
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@@Ddx629 Valid take. I always thought the movie's motivation was more sentimental, personally.
@@enidrobertson4858 It was certainly. It's just that the movie gave that message that I explained accidentally.
@@Ddx629 Forrest left home shortly after she left. He was gone for 3yrs and some months so there was no way to find him. He wouldn't have gotten her letters. If she sent them all to the house, he wouldn't have seen them until he got back anyway.
He announced that he was going home. That meant it was broadcasted that his running says were over and she could finally reach him.
She was an abused and sexually assaulted child who didn't have clear understandings about herself or how to go about healthy connections.
She didn't want to taint his pure goodness with her damaged self. Can't love someone else if you can't love yourself or deal with what your demons have done to you.
Like a lot of people, having a kid opens up their eyes and hearts to getting focused and learning how to love unconditionally.
If she was all about the money and not cared for him, she would have stuck around and married him to gold dig him. So, clearly she wasn't after his provisions.
Also, death has a way of making you not want to waste anymore regretted time missed with a life of happiness you didn't have for the majority of it.
The boy was his, so how was she wrong for wanting to build a connection of father and son and for securing her son's survival when she knew she would die?
With them being married, that means he has no legal hoops to jump through for being the legal guardian after she is gone. Again, that's beneficiary to Forrest and their son. Not a bad thing.
Even if that weren't the case, she could have just dumped him at the house and took off. She got her life together and did some maturing, but you're making it sound like she was some black widow trying to steal his soul and fortune....
What's that about?
Jenny's messy behaviors are some of the textbook examples of unhealed childhood trauma. The abuse of her father left her feeling worthless, dirty, and like a sex object who had to use her body to keep the men in her life happy, and probably also confused sex for love. She couldn't recognize how wrong the abuse was from her boyfriends because it had been normalized by her father her entire life. She turned to drugs because it numbed the pain and anxiety she often felt as she most likely had undiagnosed PTSD. People have a tendency to subconsciously seek out relationships that resemble the relationships we had with our primary caretakers. We dont understand that we keep repeating unhealthy dynamics because it's all we've ever known, and often don't realize there is a better option available, or don't feel worthy of a partner who could treat us better. With therapy, corrective experiences within healthy relationships, and healing, we can often achieve happier, healthier lives after a while, as Jenny does after she has baby Forrest. But people who don't realize why we behave unhealthily often put a lot of blame and shame on us for those early behaviors. Our traumas are not our fault, but our healing and recovery IS our responsibility 💖
Well said and agreed, Ma'am.
"PAIN IS INEVITABLE. SUFFERING IS OPTIONAL."
HARUKI MURAKAMI.
According to Tom Hanks, Forrest’s speech was as follows:
“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.”
Oh! That's so sad
We do get to hear Forrest say, "In Vietnam...." before the mike is cut off. But the above line does sound like what Forrest would have said, resulting in the reaction from Abbie Hoffman: "That's so right on, man. You said it all."
Just so you know Jenny never wrote him back those are all returned to sender. Y’all keep up the great work. my brother and I watched this in the movies 11 times.
Also the men on the horses with sheets were the ku Klux Klan. Not what most would call good people. They're very racist against anyone who isn't " white"
Sad, but cinema true.
Undeliverable and so returned to sender. She didn’t send them back, she wasn’t at that address so never got them.
I was about to say that.
I think Jenny's psychology is a bit self-loathing. Not so much that she looked down on Forrest but rather the opposite. He was too genuine for her ,already-fragile self worth, to handle. But at the same time she loved him enough not to wish her own broken and troubled character on him as if making an honest assessment of her unworthiness of him.
You guys are quickly becoming my favorite reaction channel! Your energy and excitement while watching these movies is so much fun to watch. And yeah I agree, Jenny was a "messy messy girl"😂
Wow, thank you!
@@theloudguysmovies A movie suggestion : Amelie.
It's a French movie, a little bit qwerky, and maybe it's compatible with Indian culture.
You guys should check it out 😉
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@@channel-zn9zl I think you mean "The Crow"
Jenny couldnt have told him about his child sooner, he was running back and forth across the country for 3 years. She sent him a letter and he read it when he returned home.
Both Jenny and Forrest were flawed people; Forrest mentally and Jenny emotionally the world is full of bizarre and interesting intersections and in the end the legit truth of love, however flawed came through. Life really is like a box of chocolates you just dont know what your gonna get but its not what you get but how you handle what you get that is really the bittersweet nectar of life. :) Its a very emotional beautiful movie. So glad you two took the time to react to it.
Yes, both Jenny and Forrest were flawed people the difference was Jenny knew it and Forrest didn't. By Forrest not realizing his flaws it never became a life long obstacle in his endeavors.
I don't know how it is in other countries, but in America, many women gravitate towards guys who treat them like complete trash. It's a rather mysterious phenomenon that should be studied at a university level.
I love the dichotomy in this movie that Forrest wasn't "smart" in like, an academic sense, but he was raised in a loving home and was good at handling all the crazy things his life threw at him. Jenny was "smart" but messed up from her abusive childhood and not good at handling life. Our culture places so much emphasis on being "smart" but he was the happier, more successful person being a simple, good man.
In the scene where Forrest gets back a giant pile of letters, those are not letters from Jenny. Those are the letters he wrote returned to him unopened. She never read them.
I love this movie (and not just because I am from Alabama), and how it highlights past historical events. Jenny never felt worthy of his love due to her childhood. I believe she would have told him she were pregnant, but he was on the run so she had no way to contact him really. Wonderful reaction!
How sure are we that was really his child?
Jenny had very low self esteem for so long and she knew Forrest was too good for her, which is why she kept being drawn to idiots that didn't treat her well, she thought that is what she deserved, it took her a long time to grow up and realize her own value to be able to love Forrest back, a lot of people(both boys and girls) make the same long journey in life before they understand themself
I really love this movie, I'm happy you were able to watch it! (sidenote) I'm not sure if you realised afterward, but Jenny hadn't written Forrest back. All those letters you saw were marked 'return to sender'. 😊
29:44 The story about Jenny is that her father was molesting her sisters and her when they were children.
Due to this trauma, she is self-destructive for most of her life. She does not feel like she has any value as a person.
She does love Forest but when she says, "You don't want to marry me" ... she means that he deserves someone better than her.
Most people misunderstand Jenny not wanting to marry Forrest. She didn’t think he wasn’t good enough for her. She felt that SHE wasn’t good enough for him.
When Jenny is on the balcony and at her lowest point - the song playing is “Free Bird” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Lyrics:
If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see
But if I stay here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
*And this bird you cannot change
Oh, oh, oh, oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird, you cannot change
Lord knows, I can't change*
Bye-bye, baby, it's been sweet love, yeah, yeah
Though this feelin' I can't change
Please don't take it so badly
'Cause Lord knows, I'm to blame
If I stay here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
Oh, oh, oh, oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird, you cannot change
Lord knows, I can't change
Lord help me, I can't change
Lord, I can't change
Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah
I always felt Jenny wanted to love him, but his innocents reminded her of when she was a child, making her wonder if she would be taking advantage of him much like she was as a child. Also i think she couldnt have gottwn ahold of forrest about his son because he was running across the country!
Also you two are amazing, i saw your green mile on my suggested videos and yiur reactions and personalities are so beautiful!
I’m sure if I read the comments, somebody would have said that Forest is on the, “autistic spectrum” meaning, he most likely has autism, is autistic. Those are the terms for his condition. I have a family member that is on the spectrum.❤❤❤❤❤
I’m so glad I found this channel. I have been subscribed to your other channel for a while, but I’m so excited to have found this!
What a wonderful movie! A full semester of history could be taught just from the events in which Forrest finds himself embroiled. I will be crying multiple times. Life is hard, but Forrest finds a way to stay positive, so that gives me hope.
Theres a series on US Netflix called "The Movies That Made Us" in which each episode of the 3 seasons focuses on the making of what are considered to be Classic American movies, such as Rocky, Home Alone, Jurassic Park, and of course Forrest Gump. Watching the episode covering Forrest Gump puts into perspective how this movie almost didn't exist at all and that the people who wanted to make this had to fight so hard to actually accomplish that. The biggest example would be the famous Run Across America, it was actually kept secret from the Studio because of the budget needed to shoot all those iconic scenes. They would sometimes shoot in one location and in the same day fly somewhere else to shoot, even recruiting Tom Hank's own brother as a running double!
If you ever get the chance to watch any episode of The Movies That Made Us, I highly recommend checking it out to appreciate the hard work that goes into these movies
Poor Jenny spent so much of her life acting out because she did not feel worthy of Forest's love. Sometimes when girls are abused when they are very small, they act very self destructively for years until they get help. Jenny followed a pattern common to abused people.
Jenny's dad was sexually abusing her, and she was so young it scarred her & put her on a downward trajectory. She always had love for Forrest and in actuality she loved him enough to not contaminate his life. 💞
There are many different cultures throughout the US, but being from the southeastern US, I can say without a doubt that the most accurate part of this movie is that we will start a conversation with anyone and end up telling our whole life story. Seriously, it's happened to me three times this week, and I've done it to at least two in the past month.
I think the moral of this story is that you don't have to be a smart person to achieve anything you put your mind into. He was a simple minded man but he lived a full life ❤
Yeah, Forrest had a good mother. No matter what opened up to him or stood in his way in life, he just went for it.
No long regrets or self-pity, he just went his way with a good heart.
Even if the story is of course movie magic and maybe a bit naive, I think it's a nice message. That it pays, to be a decent person, no matter what.
You can't control the things that happen to you. You can only control yourself and your own reaction to things.
Don't wait for the world to give you some happiness, give it to yourself by beeing a nice, brave, kind-hearted person.
I always thought the reason why Jenny always told Forrest he didn't know what love was. Because deep down inside she didn't know what real love felt like and the one person who did show her that love it scared her.
Jenny was much abused as a child and this led to her erratic life, substance abuse and bad decisions. I think she did not want to burden Forest. When she found out she was dying she wanted to make sure their son was taken care of. Keep in mind that at the time they didn’t know a lot about HIV/AIDS or how it was spreading. All she knew was that the doctors said she was dying and they didn’t know what it was.
🎯 Well said
So glad that you do get Jenny for the most part by the end. I think Jenny was the second most important person in the movie. The movie showed her life from basically the same time as it started with Forest. It's right that you picked up on the abuse but [some other reactors got Jenny wrong, allot of reactors love Forest so much they don't like Jenny] she truly loved Forest and had the same deep down kind nature as he. She was the only one to befriend him on the bus at the very start to show her good nature. [and continued to be his good friend through high school, imagine how hard that was with all the bullies still on Forrest's case, so to speak] Others will comment on the trauma she would have had to deal with [an obviously very deep wounding of her] so I won't go into that, just point out that they [as the two main subjects of the plot] were basically two kind hearted and worthy people from two different upbringings. She talks of how their lives are so different. [recognizing her flaws] She repeatedly tells Forrest She Does Love Him [always in a sad tone, knowing she could hurt the one true constant good in her life if she let him into hers then] And not wanting to hurt the only true one she did love would say "You don't want to marry me" [imagine how it must have hurt her to have to tell him that?!!]. She had to fix herself [with no help from anyone in those days -totally on her own to heal herself] before worthiness could take place. Forrest helped everyone! And the way he helped her was finally to let her find the first true lovemaking she had ever done after she recovered at his house. [her choice finally to see it's OK to have a good man watch over her as she obviously made the best decision of her life to "clean up" -with all the sleeping that was needed] When she agreed with Forrest that he would make a good husband on those stairs it led to the final "fix" that happened when she would have felt so badly when he thought she didn't love him. She finally allowed herself to express to him [and herself] the lovemaking she had never known and was always afraid to accept. It was real. It was good. [for both of them] And it was time to leave [yes, once again] but this time Not Running. It was time to make herself a good clean life without his help to be sure she wouldn't hurt him to be with him. [remember she was really new to the clean life, with just those few weeks or so clean so far] She proved it to herself and it is clear that was his child [by their same head movements from the start even though they had never met] It isn't clear in the movie but she may well have written the letter for him to come before she found out her condition [he was running for years] and either way I believe she would have contacted Forrest about his child even if she had not come down with Hepatitis C [or aids] Remember when she left the last time she would not have known she was pregnant yet, just that she needed to be sure she was worthy to live up to the love she felt for him that night of her first true loving. Two deep down Good People, with very different lives who non the less helped each other throughout their life's even as differently as it went for them. One finding it very easy to let the deep-down good person show, the other struggling greatly to let that nature show. Together it showed in both of them easily. It was a true love story from beginning to end. That's all I got to say about that.
I love the appreciation for the line, "sometimes, there just aren't enough rocks". It's such a simple line, but has such a deep meaning that I think a lot of people can relate to.
I love this movie. Given how tied it is to events from American history it’s interesting to see how much foreigners do or don’t understand. If there’s a subtitled or dubbed version of ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ I wonder how much of it I would understand.
No. They attempted to simply duplicate the original Forrest Gump while making Laal Singh Chadda, which didn’t make sense in Indian context. So that movie failed.
This film was like seeing a section of U.S. history through a cracked lens. Forrest and his simple purity was the juxtaposition to the messiness and chaos of American and world events. With Jenny and Forrest and their tumultuous relationship, opposites really do attract.
I watched this movie on DVD/ VHS first when I was 15 after it came out. Needless to say I was touched by it. It’s the only movie that holds up the same way until this day and doesn’t lose its magic
'Forest Gump', once in a lifetime experience! It's playing with every human emotions like love,hate,anger,surprise etc.What a performance by Tom Hanks ❤️
P.S- I atleast watched it 20-22 times and it is my top 5 movies list 😅
Great movie and reaction. What a tear jerker. The medal of honor is a super rare and important award, so Forrest giving it to Jenny was a huge deal.
Love the reaction!!!! So when Forrest meet his son for the first time, Jenny couldn't tell Forrest, cause he was running the whole time. About 4 years. When he stopped and returned home, Jenny knew she could mail him the letter.
The speech that you couldn't hear, he said something like sometimes people come home without legs and sometimes people don't come home at all
The Shawshank Redemption is often regarded as one of the greatest American films ever made. I would recommend watching that movie sometime.
Jenny couldn't tell him he was a father because he was off running across the country.
To answer your questions:
A GI is a basic soldier, a member of the "general infantry."
Bubba might have volunteered and was accepted for service; there was also a "draft" during the Vietnam War in which young men of a certain age were _required_ to serve. He may not have had a choice.
The line "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is," isn't about Jennie "needing a smart man." It's a reaction to the scene on the bridge, when Forrest told Jennie "I love you," and she said "You don't even know what love is."
I do love your reactions!
Jenny didn’t write back. All his letters were returned to him.
You say you don’t cry, I’m about to watch you both in next..
1, American history, X, 2: Shawshank redemption: and then I will need some thing happy, so Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure😂
Sending love to you and your families from Orlando, Florida, I Heather, Spence, McCoy
Yes someone else commented but all those letters were returned to Forest because the address for Jenny has changed. Jenny was moving all around the country doing drugs. So none of his letters ever reached her. And they returned them all to him.
30:59 you said, “I hate her!”
In movie POLLS, still today, Americans joke that Jenny is Hollywood’s biggest villain 😅 30:59
This was so much fun, and I have to introduce your channels to my husband. He will like you both.
Lt. Dan, Gary Senise was in Stephen King's The Stand, a 1990s made for tv movie that clocks in around 6 hours, definitely worth watching. The opening montage and credits uses Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult perfectly, just the right amount of cowbell.
Actually, no, Jenny did not write back to Forrest when he was in Vietnam. The postage marks indicate that the letters Forrest had sent to Jenny were never delivered and they were returned to him. Jenny did not have a stable address during that time and was no longer living at her grandmother's home.
I'm fairly certain that Tom Hanks always appears in GOOD movies ONLY! lol. I was in 7th grade when he was Jim Lovell in 'Apollo 13'- Its such a masterwork by Director Ron Howard that the launch sequence segment and other scenes STILL resonate with me! ☝🏻😮💨
Remember, while Jenny gave birth to young Forrest and was raising him, he was on his 3 year run back in forth across the United States!! I love this movie and I loved your reactions!!
and that adorable little boy playing Forrest Jr. is Haley Joel Osment, who went on to be in movies like The 6th Sense, Pay It Forward, A.I., and Second Hand Lions (he's now an adult and still acting on TV... he wears a huge beard now).
Same with the return letters Jenny couldn't contact Forest to tell him he had a kid because Forest was on the run for 3 years. Same like Jenny, she had no address
Lucky me I take a picture at the same park where this movie was filming, the bench was put at a museum but they replaced with another one before people trash it, at Savanah ga, here at the United States!!
I enjoy how animated you guys get when watching movies, it makes it fun. This is a cool movie that has so many emotional swings with some good messages. Fun reaction guys.
I think you two have been the most compassionate about Jenny's story than other reactors I've seen. I appreciate that.
Really fun watching you two. It's great to hear perspective from two people on the opposite side of the world that share a different culture! It's not all bad in the USA, and I believe there are more good people than bad. Cheers!
I love watching the reactions from other countries just for that reason. Some people complain because the movies are edited, but that doesn't bother me at all because the movies are ones that I already know so well. So, the reactions bring a new element to the movies
0:51 I would love to know the difference, in the two versions of both!
I already have Shawshank redemption queued up to play next. I’m so glad to find you did a movie channel!
18:52 Forrest thought the Black Panther Party was a literal party 😢😢
34:50 - So if Jenny has HIV/AIDS and is dying as she said. By that same rationale if Forest had sex with his newly wed wife without protection, there is a high likelihood he has it as well. That will mean he will die and possibly leave the son as an orphan.
So, is this really a happy story? Or was it a story of Jenny continually being selfish and making bad decisions?
The important word being IF.
@@MrCzerillo Yes, I agree. My attempt was to not insult his intellect. What I know is after marriage for "ME" condoms went out of the window. Again, for me and many that I know/knew. That is ultimate trust and connection. Remember he only had sex with her. So, 1 time and possibly more...
I figured she had hepatitis
@@davidmc1489 If you look at the movie in full and think about the time-line, she described the disease in better detail and that was also about the time of the introduction of HIV/AIDs in the USA.
Nice question
"...one less thing." I love that line. A great reaction you two!!
You two are so much fun. Great reaction.
Thank you so much 😁
15:17 - those letters ✉️ were returned to the sender. She never got any.
I watch so many reactors, and I can honestly say you 2 are the crème of the crop. I absolutely love watching you guys. PS you are a very lucky man 😄
When he said oh, F OFF.... They gave me a huge you belly laugh 😂
You guys are quickly becoming one of my favorite reactors, i love your enthusiasm for movies :) i know you seem to only be doing movies right now, but i'd love it if you reacted to The Sopranos- it would draw in more audience, and i promise by the 2nd or 3rd ep you'll be addicted! Its THE show that changed telwvision, and its worth the hype 😎
The noise you made when he jumped the fence at 7:33 hahahaha
To me, Forest represents the honest, loyal, and humble core that we all have inside us, and Jenny represents restlessness, rashness, and searching for meaning that we all go through. It's set against the backdrop of American History from 1950 on, and, I think, in doing so, it says the qualities of both Forest and Jenny, which were sometimes at conflict, symbolized the American character during that history. Both of you really related to the honest, loyal and humble forest, and from watching your reaction I can see his admirable qualities in you both.
One Times Square, where the ball is dropped on New Year, has a cool history, the building underneath is shaped like a triangle and made of limestone and marble with steel and concrete on the upper levels that were added later. The building has 2 observation decks now, $42 per person and up to $400 a head for private gatherings they probably makes more money than the billboards.
It's a great story. I love how Forrest ends up in the middle of everything.
Men,no matter the culture get super emotional with this movie because most of us have been there where we would love and would do anything for a woman but have been destroyed emotionally one way or another. This reaction made me tear up because the man is so smart and understood the hell Forrest was going thru😢😢😢 Great Reaction!
He manage to hit a ton of major historical events in those decades of American history... the entire move is a constant stream of American history references
The scenes of Presidents and other similar scenes in history were actual footage and they dubbed Forest into the scene - that was a really cool effect. Jenny was screwed up in the head because of her dad abusing her sexually as a little girl, she ended up being a hippy and doing drugs and being with wicked men, but she straightened up her life and did the right thing to give Forest his son in the end.
After the movie Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Became a real restaurant chain. I saw one when I was visiting California last year.
Jenny never felt good enough for Forrest. She felt unworthy from the time she was little because it's implied at the beginning that her father was sexually abusive, as well as violent. Forrest didn't understand at the time. That's why he said, "He was a loving man. He was always kissing and touching her." She felt dirty. That's why she chose the life she did, a life of destruction. It took facing death for her to realize that what she needed the entire time was always there. Forrest loved her from the first moment he saw her and never stopped.
Jenny never wrote back, his letters were returned unopened because Jenny was no longer living with her grandma, she went travelling with hippies in that beat up '61 VW van and never knew Forrest had been writing to her.
Jenny's abuse deeply affected her. Love and abuse we're intertwined, so she ended up with men who abused her. And on some level, she may have felt that being with Forrest would be abusing an innocent. She also saw herself as tainted. She lived Forrest, but hated herself. She kept fleeing her pain, only to recreate it. She only found peace when she had a child she could take care of and only then felt worthy of a man who truly loved her.
I’m loving these reactions guys. Amazing. Thank you. Much love from New Zealand
15:00. Those letters are not FROM Jenny. Those are the letters Forrest wrote to her and they were returned ‘Return To Sender’. She never read his letters. She sent them all back to him.
This movie won best picture of the year over Shawshank Redemption. I have always thought the academy made the wrong decision. I'm sure it won because it shows so.many more locations and is an American history lesson. Both are very good films. (I love Kaura's laughter. The sound is so delightful to the ear and pleasant to the soul)
Nooo that's all forests letters to jenny that were returned to him.
The first 2 and a half years his son was alive he was running from his problems literally so Jenny couldn't get a hold of him and there's no timeline after he got home when she messaged him so it's hard to know.
This is a wonderfully American movie. If you did not grow up in this country it may be hard to grasp.
Respect. As you young people watch this movie, your reactions are sometimes slightly off...but I think you realize later...I like your reviews though because you both are smart, and kind. If I may add, sometimes, these movies are a truly unique, American Experience that can only be understood, immediately, if you've been born here. But you treat it with respect , and so, it is appreciated. There is a LOT of thought here... :)
at 15:00 minutes....Jenny did NOT write back. THose letters were all marked "return to sender".
Jenny was a broken and damaged girl inside. It was never that she didn’t want Forest, it was that she was trying to run from her past and she never believed she was good enough for him.
If roles were reversed and Jenny was a man and Forrest was a woman, would you say the same thing?
Jenny couldn’t reach Forrest to tell him about his son. There weren’t cell phones or email back then, and he had been running the country for 2-3 years.
What a performance by Tom Hanks imo probably his best work
All of Jenny's letters were marked "return to sender" she never got those letters.
Jenny is a complicated character, and I feel like people often oversimply her. She wasn't a bad person obviously, and actually, given a better childhood, would likely have turned out much different. However, she did make choices that were damaging to others like Forrest. That's why I liker her character, because she's complicated, like most people.
13:00 brooooo in Las Vegas we pray pray pray for 4 months of rain.... just once in life! 😆
My take on this film is that Forrest was on the autism spectrum. All those accomplishments he accumulated was out of luck. He kept his promise to Bubba and has never given up on shrimping, no matter how difficult it was. He never let the fame go to his head, and remained humble. For the most part, he had an innocent mind and a good heart. He didn't even give it a second thought when he handed Vivian her notebook after she dropped it. Jenny felt like she didn't deserve to be with Forrest, because she went through a rough life with an abusive dad, drug use and hung around with a rather unpleasant crowd. Just like Mama Gump said: life's a box of chocolates. You'll never know what you're gonna get. Oh, in case you're curious about what having a million dollar wound means, it's a wound that is not crippling or fatal, but bad enough to take you off the battlefield. I think Jenny had died from Hepatitis C, according to the book.
Those letters were all return to sender, the ones he had sent to her returned which never made it to her.
Been a while since I’ve seen this movie, it’s definitely a roller coaster ride for the emotions 💔 Thank you for giving us another wonderful reaction!
Jenny didn’t tell Forrest about his son since he was running across the country for over 3 years and no cell phones to reach him back then☺️
I wish I could have seen Bubba on the shrimp boat with Forest too. :)
I love that when Forrest sees Jenny in any danger he just walks straight through it to rescue her.
i'll be joining your patreon as soon as the full length reactions begin!
“Such a messy girl.” You said it best. This is a classic movie, delighted that you enjoyed it! Also, there is a great suspense thriller/horror movie that is scary because it is soo realistic. The movie is called: “Breakdown” starring Kurt Russell. I highly recommend it!
Love to my Hindu brothers & sisters from the American Jewish community.
Good little bit of info. All the shootings that are on the T. V. that you see in this movie, nobody dies. They were all shot but survived.