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- 🎬FORREST GUMP MOVIE REACTION! 🎬
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Devin, this film is what turned Gary Sinise into one of the most patriotic celebrities of all time. To this day he has his band called the LT Dan band. Gary has done more for wounded warriors that almost any other celebrity, except maybe Denzel Washington.
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I watch a lot of reactions of this movie, some people are happy when jenny comes back other people aren’t, but you took it to the next level 😂 but I’m older, I agree with you
I was glad to see you laughing and tearing up just as much as I do when I watch this movie every few months 😂❤
Are you still asking 120 dollars for 2hour movie reactions 😂
When Jenny tells Forrest that he doesn’t know that love is it’s because SHE doesn’t know what love is. Her idea of love is abuse.
its so easy to dismiss other's points of view. love is defined differently by every single person. we often forget that. Jenny knew what love is, so did Forrest. They just defined the word differently through different life experiences.
dont be so quick to dismiss other's defintion of love unless you are ready to concede that you also do not "know" what love is through someone else's eyes. if you honestly think that Jenny doesn't know what love is then count yourself lucky her father didn't teach you her definition of love. Be glad in your total ignorance of her situation and glad that as a child you were taught love in another (better) way.
You dr phil people crack me up
@@alecstewart8084 it's okay that you're not a deep thinker. I'm sure you're good at something else. 😊
It's worth noting that Jenny's response to abuse, or even Forrest's adoration of her, was never to be angry or violent in return. She had 2 responses...acceptance of abuse against her, or escape - straight to a new source of abuse. In a sense of course we might say her avoidance of Forrest was sort of emotionally abusive to him but really it was more her protecting him from the worthless person she saw herself as.
@@uffda3937perfect response 👏🙌
I used to have the same opinion of you about Jenny. I always thought that Forrest was too good for her. But as I read more about people's child hood trauma I started to come around to her. She never had love as a kid and so for the rest of most of her life she didn't think that she deserved any. It's why being with Forrest was so hard. He was willing to forgive her and hold her on such high of a pedestal; it made her extremely uncomfortable. She straight up couldn't accept it. The only solace she ever had in her life was running away from her dad, so she spent the rest of her life doing the only thing she knew, running.
Something else I think that's worth mentioning is how different Forrest might have turned out if Jenny hadn't accepted him at a young age. Having friendships is really pivotal to a childhood experience and she was literally his only one. Forrest has also shown extreme loyalty to any of the major characters in his life. He doesn't have the benefit of having many of them and only when people get to spend a lot of time with him do they truly understand him. It's easy to think that any partner that Forrest would have made after his success might be a gold digger. And while it is suspicious that Jenny only contacted him after she had gotten sick, I do think she loved him. And I don't think she ever wanted to hurt him or that she didn't have immense regret about most of her life. She finally accepted the fact that someone could love her unconditionally and then re-proposed to Forrest.
I do think the ending of the movie was ruined for you because of how you view the character, but I still really enjoyed the video none the less. Keep it up!
^this... if you think Forrest is too good for Jenny, she agrees with you...🥲
Try to imagine the pain she must have been in, how little she valued herself and kept falling into the same abusive situations again and again. Because she believed that abusive in a relationship was normal.
@@zacclark5945 Jenny didn’t run alway the cops take her from him, that’s different. you know what i had bad childhood too my mom was (may be still is) alcoholic and drug addict. I run away home find job and I’m happy now….but I had mixed feeling on Jenny in one hand I get her I in another not really.
@@annaalestra4263no what he meant was that when she WAS staying with her dad, she was running away from him into the fields to escape him. Not running away from home.
@@Mikcha212 aha...okey
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I want a Bubba-Gump Shrimp company shirt that has that quote on the back. He reminds me of a dude I went to basic and AIT with.
Jenny : "Hello Forrest..."
Devin : "Fuck you Jenny."
A real best friend reaction 😆
He knows what's up.
@@msabccbscnnoanfoxnews Troll of the year
@@msabccbscnnoanfoxnews A human being is responsible for their own actions, and abuse does NOT give someone an excuse to be an awful person to the people that are kind to you. People who don’t even ATTEMPT to show self control when they are struggling, don’t deserve empathy, because they are expecting you to shoulder the brunt of their emotional baggage. I’m assuming this is rage bait, but since I can’t tell, I am responding genuinely.
@@msabccbscnnoanfoxnews Conclusive words, coming from someone who has provided no evidence of that.
@@msabccbscnnoanfoxnews I went through the same abuse. It does affect you your entire life, but it doesn’t give you a free pass to treat others poorly, make destructive life decisions. Just because it explains WHY she did it, doesn’t mean it’s okay. Eventually you have to accept the responsibility of your actions and realize that you are responsible for changing, and not giving into your trauma. THIS SHOULDNT BE CONFUSING FOR YOU. You are projecting.
Jenny pissed me off the first time I watched this movie but later I understood it better. She came from an abusive household always being put down thinking she's not good enough for Forrest so she keeps pushing him away because he's too good for her. She continues to keep being with guys that abuse her because being abused is all she knew growing up and probably thinks she deserves it too. Same thing happens to abused animals, instead of running away they stick to their abusive owner because that's all they know/have.
Yeah the irony of Jenny telling Forrest he doesn’t know what love is has always been one of the saddest parts of this movie for me
BS. Jenny's motives were always selfish. She hid little Forrest from his father for 3 years. If she hadn't gotten sick, Forrest would have never known he had a son.
@@jeffreiland7463 how would jenny have gotten hold of forrest while he was doing is cross country running, remember he started running the day she left
@@jeffreiland7463I’m not so sure about that (although I struggle quite a bit with Jenny’s overall behavior). She seems to be sober and her apologizing to Forrest seems to me like one of those steps you HAVE to take in AA when you apologize everyone you’ve wronged or something like that. I want to believe she waited till she was sober, working and supporting herself and their son, before asking Forrest to marry her at which time she found out about her sickness (most probably aids). I know I’m taking quite a few liberties to reach this assumption, but it works for me 😅🤷♂️
@@richardandersen8198 Yes, you are.
🙂
Absolutely one of THE BEST movies ever made.
People love to hate on Jenny, yet somehow conveniently 'Forget/Ignore' she (And her poor sister), were suffering under horrendous abuse by their father. That can totally warp victims' minds, and it rarely self-corrects till the day they die/are murdered by 'That element' of society. Jenny's not perfect. No one is.
Jenny lived long enough to finally wake up, but it took that Death Sentence medical condition and the prospect of her and Forrest's son to make her face it.
Totally adored Tom Hanks' role in this! He is such a wonderful Actor!
Thanks for letting us ride along with you Devin! It was a wild ride!
Just to clarify, you don't have to ignore the abuse she suffered to condemn her actions. A lot of pedophiles come from childhood sexual abuse. I don't ignore it, but being abused isn't justification for being bad to others in my opinion.
@@snake698
Yet in the end, she faced it, her mistakes, and because she knew Forrest to be a good Man, that he'd be the best Father for his Son (That she likely, at first, didn't want to trouble/burden Forrest with), and she did what she could with the limited time she had left.
It's called 'Redemption,' and it is perfectly portrayed in this film.
We all make mistakes.
Owning up to, and correcting them to the very best of our ability, is the best we can do.
The chair flip fucking killed me 😂😂😂😂
I felt that lol. I have never seen someone hate Jenny so much. But if you think about she knew Forrest was rich and had his baby just to run away.
It was violent and unnecessary and triggering for anyone watching who has gone through the trauma Jenny has gone through. I didn’t see that coming and honestly my heart flew out my chest.
@@KimbaLoveAdamsYou feel what you feel, based on the information at hand.
@@KimbaLoveAdams It was entirely justified. Woman use men like this all the time. It's demeaning to make excuses.
@davidallred2947 yeah but this reaction was just incredibly ignorant.. it was painful to watch
Jenny is self-destructive due to the abuse she received. She doesn’t want to pollute Forrest by being with him she feels tainted and not good enough. He’s inherently good and therefore too good for her. An abused child will often be attracted to abusive partners when grown up. She only learned to love and allow herself to be loved when she became a parent. She is very hard to like as a character though until the end when she expresses regret.
You def a woman 😂😂😂 jenny is a punk,so it's OK for abused people to abuse as they was abused? She took forest for a chump,then had his baby but kept it from him for years then lands it on him with she is dying. She was a clown n forest should of wanted better,jenny was broke n was never guna be fixed again
Exactly, I think she could never have healed without becoming a mother. While at first she saw herself as dirty and dangerous for Forrest, maternity changed her, she had someone she loved above anything else, and suddenly she realized that even if she didn't, her son certainly deserved a father as pure and as loving as Forrest, one that would pass on to him the love and the teachings of his own wonderful mother. So that little Forrest could have what old Forrest had.
Let's not see that as exploitation, she had a few peaceful years (maybe) but she gave a giant present to Forrest by making him a dad. That's what's going to make his life full to the brim.
In my opinion, Tom Hanks' build and delivery of the line, "Is he smart or is he-..." is the most well acted scene in all of film history. It perfectly encapsulates Forrest as a character, showing his worry that if he son is seen as "less intelligent" or "different" that he would have a rough life like he had. Throughout the movie we see Forrest so positive all the time and even mostly unbothered when he is talked down to or (DENIED A DAMN SEAT ON A BUS) otherwise neglected. This makes us as the viewer kind of forget that just because he has no reaction, doesn't mean it isn't affecting him. This is shown when Tom Hanks delivers that line "Is he smart or is he-..." The EMOTION verifies that he WAS effected heavily by all of his bullies and turmoil. So well done by Tom Hanks.
Agreed. We never see him cry or complain about how he's treated, yet he seems to have understood that he wasn't like the rest of the kids growing up and when he sees his son, he just wants him to not ha e to go through the bullying and the ridicule he went through. It's an amazing scene
I get an odd allergic reaction when I see that scene.
You can understand the anguish of Lt Dan living with PTSD because he’s a man. But not for a woman who lost her momma when she was a little girl (maybe at the hands of an abusive man😒). Her daddy who is supposed to be her protector hurts her by using her little body in an adult manner. Jenny also has PTSD and can never run “far far away” enough from her pain and from people that have cold hearts and double standards
very good point! I was thinking exactly the same!
I always thought her dad became a drinker and abuser *because* he lost his wife and had to raise his girls alone. I think the drinking was to deal with his own grief.
Jenny surely suffered from the abuse she experienced. But it doesn't excuse her for how she treated Forrest or all of her terrible choices throughout her life. Just like Dan's anger over his disability and his platoon getting attacked doesn't excuse his behavior toward Forrest and everyone else in his life.
You can understand someone's pain and motivations but that doesn't mean you excuse their behavior. Jenny was awful to Forrest. She used him. She only decided to marry him when she needed someone to care for her and her son. It's good that she finally accepted that she made a lot of bad decisions and tried to atone for them, but she doesn't get a pass for any of it.
Here here. Couldn't get through this
@@Karamarika Wow......
@@Karamarika
First, people dont sa abuse little kids just cause their wife died, its like one of the most messed up things you can ever do. Second, nobody here said Jenny is excused from everything she did cause of her abuse. Her running away after sleeping with Forrest was pretty bad and she apologized for it.
She honestly didnt do much else though. She tried telling Forrest of his kid and send him letters, but he was away, running for over three years. And her rejecting Forrest all these times before is her right, Forrest isnt entitled to get her just cause he is the main character.
She was his only friend during his entire childhood which greatly shaped him, she helped him in school and tried to help him get away from his bullies. If that isnt worth anything then I dont know.
Third, Jenny never used Forrest. She could have stayed with him and get all his money, but she decided that he was too good for her and kept her distance. Towards the end when she ran away from him for the last time, she finally wanted to work on herself to deserve Forrest, which she did. She got a job, stopped doing d1>gs etc. And she asked him to marry her cause then his son is legally his.
I see so many male reactors already getting more and more angry just cause Jenny rejects Forrest, which like I said, is her damn right!
*Do you think this was one of Tom Hanks MOST EMOTIONAL films?*
It also changed Lt Dan's life (Gary Sinise) he done lot of humanitarian work after the movie
idk maybe it ties with Green Mile
Yes
Yes but may be you sould watch "Capitan Philips"❤ (honestly write a lot of comments and don't remember if I mention to you 😅). Thank you and take care 😊 Annie
Philadelphia is one of Tom's best emotional films.
. He has a band called " The Leutenent Dan Band " plays for military soldiers
This film serves as a great reminder of how damaging child abuse can be. Don't be too angry with Jenny or real-life "Jennys." They carry immense pain that makes them the way they are.
Hurt people hurt people.
Not an excuse to treat people like shit. That is their own problem and not other people's responsibility to walk on egg shells. This is coming from a person who has been through this.
@@Thrashifice I wasn't excusing it, just explaining it. By the same token, we shouldn't treat people like Jenny with anything but love and forgiveness. Do NOT return evil for evil, but with love. That's how you change a heart.
@@ThrashificeI'm curious what kind of person you would be if you were rated by your Dad
Exatamente. As pessoas se concentram no amor do Forrest, mas não era sobre o Forrest. Era sobre a dor que a Jenny carregava, inclusive as tentativas de suicídio demonstram isso.
I am a Jenny that found my Forrest. An unconditionally loving man with the patience of a saint that has loved me for nearly 20 years. :) Loved me so hard I learned to love myself too. Plus, being married to your best friend is the bees knees.
Careful, he might go into a rage and throw furniture at you.
@@NatPat-yj2or Perhaps he was done wrong by a Jenny. He certainly felt strongly about her.
I found my Jenny, but she hates me. Nobody will replace her.
@@buffmaloney Don't deprive yourself of potential relationships and love either though. You are deserving of happiness, with or without your Jenny.
@@terrylewis_ not again. I am too old to be going through that again
Jenny was physically, sexually and emotionally abused by her own father for years. Can you imagine a grown man molesting/raping little girls? How painful both physically and emotionally. That really messes a person up. She didn’t value herself so she was constantly getting with men who didn’t “really” value her. She was using drugs to numb the pain. They were best friends from the first day on the school bus until they graduated High School. I don’t think Forest’s life would have turned out the same without having her to grow up with. I do understand how some people can dislike her and never quite understand. I was angry with her at first too; especially after she had sex with him and ran off the next morning. In the end, she had been clean and sober for several years and was a very good mother. She was finally ready to accept real love and now Forest isn’t alone. He has a son to take care of and raise. I was heartbroken when Jenny died; especially when little Forest wrote the letter to his mama and didn’t want his Dad to read it. Try to view Jenny from a different perspective.
One thing a lot of people miss.... they ask why she waited 3 years to tell him he was a father. In fairness to Jenny, there was no way for her to reach him because he was running across the country for 3 years. She knew a letter to his home wouldn't reach him if he wasn't there. It wasn't until he finally stopped running and went home (and I assume the news eventually reported this) that she wrote to him to have him come visit her. Nowadays we're so used to everyone having a cell phone and social media that the idea that you simply can't reach someone seems crazy... but that's what it was like back then. He wasn't home for 3 years, therefore he wasn't reachable... unless you literally went out on the road and found him.
Most aggressive Forrest Gump experience I’ve ever seen
Right?! He was like “FRICK FRACKITY FUCKITY FRICK FRACK!!!”
you woulda thought jenny was Adolph the way he was goin in on her like bro😭 she had it rough
For people with a lot of traumas, more traumas is more comforting because it’s what they know. It’s often not choices they make consciously.
25:54 "YOU'LL NEVER SINK THIS BOAT!!!!"
"Hey, iceberg delivery . . ." X3
Best reaction to Jenny ever.
Devon, i love your channel. Having said that, its clear you dont know anyone who was abused and molested as a child. To make it worse, by the father. The 1 person who should protect you no matter what. Its devastating. Very difficult to recover from. It seems you dont posess empathy. Still, youre a good guy and i won't stop watching your channel.
you may have hated Jenny because how she acted but Forest didnt care. he always loved her and finally got to spend some time with her and got a son. That made Forest happy. so if you like Forest then you need to show him some love and back off of Jenny , the love of his life. her life was filled with abuse by her father. lighten up. That is all I have to say about that.
Jenny used to piss me off.
As I got older, I realized why she was the way she was. The only "love" she ever received as a child was from an abusive father. Which meant as an adult, that's what she thought "love" was and that's why she was with the men she was with.
She also didn't feel like she deserved Forrest's love.
It wasn't until she was pregnant with Little Forrest that she realized she needed to get clean. She also likely went to rehab and therapy, all because she wanted to be better for her son.
She didn't tell Forrest because she didn't know how he'd handle it and because he was running across the country so damn long it's not like he would have gotten any phone calls or letters anyway lol.
But there's always two parts that get me:
When he asked if Little Forrest was smart or like him. That means Forrest is self aware of his condition and was worried he'd pass it to his child - he didn't want his child to have the difficulties and bullying he did.
The second thing that gets me is ping pong - he went undefeated because dude told him never take his eye off the ball. When playing against Little Forrest, he fumbles the ball because he can't take his eyes off his son.
Wasn't until I became a dad myself that I straightened my life out (I used to be into a lot of dangerous crap) and understood not wanting my children to go through what I've been through. It made me understand both Jenny and Forrest a lot more.
I don t understand how men who watch this movie hate Jenny not having emotional intelligence to understand how messed up a person can be when they are abused and betrayed as an innocent child by the person who is supposed to love and protect them. She was an innocent baby who was sexually molested by her own father and you can’t understand why hated herself and was self destructive…people
Want to sit on a high horse and not understand that an innocent child doesn’t dream of being a drug addict or psychologically damaged just want to point a finger. No one in this world is without faults.
Thiiiisssss it’s so frustrating and sad…. Like she is so well written… and her story is so sad… like watching men literally react like this is frightening
I don't understand how in a world where men are only valued for what they contribute to society, not for who they are, people get annoyed that men who understand this dynamic get annoyed that seemingly Jenny only came around to Forrest after he became a multi-millionaire. Yes on her own she grew as a person and overcame her abuse, but you cannot deny that if it were in the real world, her timing would be very convenient and suspect.
The fact you conveniently ignore this major issue of society to critique men watching this film says more about your ignorance than theirs.
@@Damien3210 I beg to differ, the fact that you ignore a very big fact that she knows she’s going to die is the true reason she reaches out. At that point of the movie Forrest has been a wealthy for several years. She reaches out because she knows she has a fatal desease and realizes her son needs his father. She doesn’t stay for long and dies soon after their marriage.
It’s common sense. I ask you to question how you compartmentalize her coming back and not mention her sickness. She doesn’t reach out for herself but for their son. She has stayed away for years at the point of the story despite his wealth.
@@NileyLove23 ah so she only reaches out for her son to have a father only because she knows she's going to die and she needs someone to look after her son, well, their son but she didn't care enough about that when she knew she was fine?
And we're still supposed to think she's a good person?
@@Damien3210 Nobody is saying she's a good person. We are saying she did love him but she was abused and molested growing up and it messed her up, and she was protecting HIM from HER. She never told Forrest about the son because she didn't want to burden him and hurt him more, so she worked hard to take care of the son. When she realized she was dying, she knew she had to make sure that he got to live with his dad and be raised with love and values and would have a better chance at life.
😂😂 iv never seen anyone in my entire life who ever had this much hate for jenni not really her fault for having problems an struggling threw it like most would not speaking from experience but iv meet ppl like that before
A lot of people think they need to earn love and thus seek it out from people who can't or won't give it. Forest gives love freely so Jenny can't fathom that and is repelled by it.
its a sad reflection i see in my life. i was raised to love and respect the world and everyone in it, and I do, and that scares the begeezus out of some people. honesty and openness absolutely petrifies some people in this world, because it's so different from how they personally act and from how they were raised. some people raised in dysfunctional homes dont even know what it means to trust someone, let alone what love looks like or even how to love themselves and take pride in their actions and decisions. Also, everyone defines love in a different way...so there's that too.
reminds me so much of my failed marriage to a woman who always saw me as the enemy even as I provided and cared for her (by her own admission) better than anyone she'd ever met in her life...and even still, in the end after 13 years, she never understood. it still makes me extremely sad to think about all the lost potential, effort, and time. she literally gaslit herself into thinking i was the problem...but then again she spent our entire marriage blaming everyone she's ever been in contact with in her life for why she wasn't happy in life. I listened endlessly while she blamed everyone in her family and everyone she dated and her first husband for all of her problems, while never once addressing the woman in the mirror and her actions and conscious decisions. it almost drove me crazy trying to understand her and I am far more damaged but educated after my experiences with her. it just makes me incredibly sad every time I think back on it, the way someone can cry for help endlessly and scream at her rescuers and anyone who got close enough to attempt to help her.
Sounds like the woman in my last relationship.
Devin refuses to simp for Jenny, lmao.
I used to think that Jenny´s disease was VIH/AIDS. But it was Hepatitis-C, having more sense taking into account those messed years.
True. She acquired Hepatitis from dirty needles. The doctors didn’t know what she was dying from because that specific strain called Hepatitis-C wasn’t discovered until a few years after her death
Nah...you had me crying whenever Jenny was on screen 😂😂😂😂. Best reaction ever!
I disagree with your view on Jenny, she was damaged by her abusive Father and coping the best she could.
It always gets me when Forrest asks if his kid is smart or if he’s “like me”
I've known a few people who had been in abusive relationships. They leave one bad relationship right into another because that's all they know. They're not used to someone actually being good to them. I think Jenny felt like she didn't deserve Forest's love.
Literally no one ever truly understands Jenny’s character… it’s so sad. She is literally such a well written character of how trauma utterly destroys you and makes you destructive. She is able to finally accept forest when she heals on her own without relying on a significant other.
OMG you are the funniest reaction guy ever! Im now subscribed to your channel
My mom seriously looked exactly like Sally Field in this when we were kids, it still gets me. We were convinced she had a secret movie career a I sincerely cried when she died, every time. That's all I have to say about that...Tom Hanks is absolutely brilliant, even when playing a local idiot. I love when LT. Dan comes with his "magic legs" made from the same material as the space shuttle to his wedding...the next year they were in Apollo 13th together! One of the most clever, hilarious, heartfelt films ever.
Momma Gump reminds me a lot of my mother, and I've always really liked this movie, but ever since my mother's passing ....the end of this movie has hit me really differently. I simply cannot see the scene with her in bed dying of cancer without tears steaming uncontrollably from my eyes. not sobbing, not blubbering, not hysterical, but a constant and unending stream for 5 to 10 minutes.
remind the people that you love that you love them as often as you can. you never know how long you have and no matter how much time you are allowed with them you will always wish you had more time and wished you told them one more time you loved them.
yup, and Gary Sinise (Lt. Dan) never got to be an astronaut in that one either (or at least he didn't get to space because they thought he was getting sick) 😂😅
@@_FirstLast_ Amen
Jenny made horrible choices but she does love Forrest as much as she can. She was abused sexually by her father and that kind of trauma can really fuck you up. I hate it when people shit on her. Must be nice to not understand that.
When he was talking to Jenny at her grave I didn’t cry cause she was dead I cried for Forrest cause of all the shit he went through, how everyone treated him, he kept his composure and never let it sway him to be someone he wasn’t, and out of this amazing journey he lived he only wanted one thing and it was taken from him and the tears he shed broke my motha fuckin heart
"I don't believe in bad people, I believe in bad choices." That sums up Jenny to me.
There ARE bad people though.
O que resume Jenny para mim ; alguém que foi abusada e negligenciada por quem a deveria proteger na infância, mudando toda a percepção que ela teria como si mesma e relacionamentos durante a vida.
Larry Lawton is that you?
Jenny never felt she was good enough for Forrest. That's why she did not stay with him in the beginning. Her abusive childhood affected her so much, it messed up her life. She got in to drugs and abusive relationships. She eventually realized that and that's why she went back to Forrest. Think about all she went through.
The contrast between Forrest and Jenny in this movie is so damn emotional... One is running all her life and the other is living in the moment and enjoying each second of his... While these are exaggerated to the max, the premise of the movie is solid. If you just keep chasing that next rush, you never get to enjoy what you have...
They are also perfect examples of what love and support (or lack thereof) can do to a child. Forrest had strong disadvantages, but his mother built him up so well that he performed beyond expectations. Jenny was smart, beautiful and - let's admit it - kind (she is after all the one that doesn't bully him), but her potential was f*ck up from the start by her father.
It absolutely blows my mind when people can't automatically see Jenny's situation. My God, all the clues are there. You don't have to be abused to recognize abuse and it's psychological imprint on a person.
Reading the comments you can tell there's 2 kind of people in this world. People with empathy and people with NO empathy.
I'm happy you and I have it.
@@cariaus3758 I agree. Couldn't get through this
There are many important lessons in this brilliant movie: The most important (for me): Gump excells at almost everything he does because he is pure of heart when he does it and completely(!) focussed on the thing he does. He doesnt get distracted and there is nothing in the world more important than the thing he does at the moment. It it complete serenity and living for the very moment he is in. Essentially he achieves what people with mediation aim for and how we all should live but cant because of distraction. Example: Football: He just runs..he doenst care for endorsements, or tv, or to look good...he doesnt care about ego or money...he lives right for this very moment and focusses only on running..and this to me is perfection..how we should all aim to do things....goes for our families as well: He purely sees Jenny and his love for her..he is there for her in every single moment(!)...in that he really is the perfect partner and husband.
33:37 not going to lie, I cried when he lost Jenny from sides in this movie. Also, I loved this movie.
In the end, Jenny gave Forrest the most important person before she died. Somebody that would love him for the rest of his life.
I love how pissed you are at Jenny the whole time
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gump On, friends!
✌️🌎❤️
Wise words!!
You can always tell when a reactor is a POS based on their reaction to Jenny.
If you can't extend sympathy to the victim of child abuse then it says a lot about your awareness and empathy as a human.
You're terrible for judging Jenny so harshly. People who have childhood trauma to the degree that she did are NOT capable of knowing how that may play out later. She was actually a great person for telling Forrest that he DIDN'T want to be married to her when he proposed - even when she was still in her disorder(s). A selfish person would have accepted his proposal and just lived the good life with a rich man she could have easily taken advantage of for the rest of her life. Also, Forrest was running for 3 years straight. In the years before cell phones, there was no way for her to tell him that she was pregnant. She did the best she could, cleaned herself up, and made sure their son had his father and the promise of a good life.
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You put it so well. Forrest would have never been awarded custody of his son if Jenny died before marrying him. Jenny gave Forrest the gift of his son and she never asked a penny from Forrest.
Exactly this
"Sometimes you got to put the past behind you before you can move on." One of the most important lines of dialogue in the movie (along with "I guess sometimes there just aren't enough rocks"), and one of the most neglected/ignored by reactors...
@flarrfan "Sometimes you got to put the past behind you before you can move on." - could you please remind me where they said that in this movie? Because I've seen it like dozens of times and for some reason I'm totally drawing a blank here 😳
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I generally appreciated your reaction but I have to tell you that your complete and total lack of compassion for the trauma that Jenny spent her whole life trying to alternately run from and heal from is a little off-putting. Her behavior and how she treated Forrest is horrible at times, but it stemmed from a deep place of feeling completely unworthy of love and fear of what happens when you love someone. She deserves at least a little compassion mixed with the anger at her behavior.
The interesting thing is that you reflect an admiration of Forrest and how good and pure at heart he is and yet were so caught up in your knee jerk anger reaction at Jenny that you didn’t even let his reaction inform yours.
I honestly am not leaving this comment to troll, but maybe to give you a perspective that you didn’t think of and perhaps open your mind to be open in other films to evaluating characters in their totality and the complexity that is human behavior rather than just the first emotional reaction to something that you don’t like. There are some characters written with little to no redeeming qualities, but Jenny is not one of them. She was one of the only people that loved him unconditionally his whole life, who stood by and defended him over and over to others who were awful to him. Even when they are at the Black Panther party she comments “This is my good friend Forrest that I’ve been telling you about” revealing that she always kept him in her mind and spoke of him to her friends. Jenny’s downfall was she suffered great trauma of a kind that really messes up a person’s ability to be loved and often leads to self harm like she engaged in. This was the 60s and 70s. It’s not like there were a lot of services and programs for people to heal from the trauma of childhood SA.
In the end your reaction was valid, as it was your natural reaction, but it was hard to watch and probably will be by anyone who was themselves victimized and struggled through life knowing how to relate appropriately to others in relationships. I am only hoping this might give you a little perspective that might also allow you to grow even through something as simple as a YT movie reaction. Best to you.
I was busting out laughing when he was naming the boat, he thought it was gonna be Bubba, turned out to be Jenny.
I don’t think Jenny was an inherently bad person. Who else besides his mom stood by his side throughout his entire childhood all the way until college? Jenny did. Jenny loved Forest but she wasn’t in love with him. She tried to tell him more than once to forget her. She felt dirty and worthless and hated herself. You can’t love someone else when you don’t even love yourself. Forest loved her unconditionally and it really doesn’t matter if she deserved it or not imo. Like I said, she’s literally the only one who stood by his side from kindergarten to graduating high school. Her life took a bad turn with drugs and alcohol because she was trying to mask the pain that was always there. Being sexually abused by your dad has a lasting negative effect I’d say. She couldn’t offer what she didn’t have to give. Forest could’ve listened to her and moved on, but his choice was to always love her.
I'm glad that you don't understand the damage that childhood trauma can leave behind.
Jenny was so damaged psychologically from her mother dying and what her father did to her and her sisters.
She was the one who didn't know what real love was.
She was afraid to trust in his love or that she in the end would sestroy him because she was so messed up.
He loved her unconditionally something that few people ever get to experience.
If she wasn't sick she would have still stayed with him at that point.
She had finally set with her past and could accept his love.
Gary Sinese who portrays Lt Dan created a band that perfoms for the troops. It's called the Lt Dan Band.
He also created the Gary Sinise Foundation that supports Veterans and first responders.
Wow you really just ruined the end of the movie by getting so angry.
John Lennon, member of the Beatles who went solo after they broke up. He sang many iconic songs, including "Imagine" that was referenced in the movie.
Aye don’t mess with Jenny in front of Forrest! He’s gonna beat yo ass! 😂😂 The way you flipped that chair when you found out Forrest was Jenny’s baby daddy! 😂🤣 “Put me on child support! Blood test first!” 😂
It always breaks my heart to see people hate Jenny. But I understand that it's very difficult to have empathy for someone like that, who does and thinks things like that, if you don't understand s*xual trauma - specifically in childhood. The impact is so enormous and long-lasting, particularly if that person doesn't seek therapy. It doesn't always make sense. It's the trauma that's the monster here, not Jenny.
Damn, I think this is the least sympathetic reaction I've ever seen toward Jenny. She wasn't being deliberately cruel to Forrest. She was hurt amd abused by her dad and had no self worrh. That's why she kept choosing abusive men.. She thought Forrest was too good and too pure and that she didn't deserve him. That's whynshe kept leaving.
Bro around 33 mins 😂😂😂 I couldn't breathe his reaction is perfect
Jenny is a broken girl who has been abused since she was a child.
She doesn't know how to be happy and thinks she doesn't deserve to be, that's why she fucks up her life non-stop, that happens in the real world, we all know people like that. When she gets pregnant she doesn't know about Forest for a long time because she is running all over the country and she finds him when she knows she is going to die and her child is going to be left without her. She doesn't take advantage of anyone, she could have stayed with him when she knew he was now a millionaire and she didn't, she went back to running away and fucking up her life. Jenny is not the villain in this film.
@raulgr6113 Exactly. Really pisses me of when mysoginists act like she abused Forrest when she didn't lead him on, was always honest with him (or at least told him the same lies she told herself) and never went for his money when she easily could. Only when she finally gets her own life straightened out does she truly go for Forrest. That is admirable at least
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I definitely understand the hate for Jenny. We can't all be Forest but I think he is a good example of how to live. He just never wasted his time on hate. That doesn't mean we should let people take advantage of us, but at the end of the day, to him she was just that little girl that sat next to him on the bus when Noone else would. She was drawn to him the same as everyone else in his life. She made some terrible choices trying to forget being sexually abused by her father and tried to avoid Forest because she didn't want to pull him down too. She could've found a way to turn her life around but she didn't and ultimately paid for it with her life. It also seems pretty clear that she didn't have any intention of burdening Forest with her son until she found out that little Forest would become an orphan after her death. She made some very bad choices but I don't think she's a villain. Those are just my thoughts. Love your reactions and look forward to the next one
I wouldn’t say she’s a villain but I feel she didn’t deserve Forrest in my opinion
@@DevinGtv901 Maybe not, but who really deserved that man.
@@DevinGtv901 I think she would agree with you.
I really hope you never come into contact with someone who's been abused as a child in real life. Your lack of understanding and empathy was infuriating during this. You need to educate yourself.
I see your point. Perhaps seeing people watching the scene, lets you know their perspective and belief on this topic or if they are or were a victim themselves..
RUN is the theme of the movie. Gump runs from physical danger, and uses it to cope in a positive way. Jenny runs from emotional danger (sexual abuse), and uses it to avoid coping. And all the while feeling that her sense of self can't infect the only good thing she has ever known: Forrest. Jenny is a tragic character who only overcame her childhood trauma after she had her own child and could focus on that. But it was too late. I wish this was better explained in the movie.
You have to understand how Jenny lived. Abused by her dad,and then every man she was with. She had her own demons to face, and she loved Forrest so much, that she didn't want to drag him down with her. She never meant to hurt Forrest, she simply didn't know how to love him.
I appreciate your reactions. It is hard to understand if you did not have a past like Jennys. Confused with what love is and trying to find it in anything and all the wrong places. Not trusting anyone ever so you run to stay safe, feel unworthy of love, or want to protect the other person. Self preservation.
I knew you were going to hate Jenny. I didn't expect you to just completely ignore her abuse though and it's sad because abused people are so often misunderstood. And seeing you get angrier and angrier felt really ignorant and was honestly painful to watch.
First time I was furious with Jenny too! He was too good to her and she took advantage of him
With it being your first time watching this film. Some things to consider. John Lennon was a member of the Beetles, with that interaction on the talk show they inferred that he got the idea for the song 'Imagine', from Forrest. Jenny was so emotionally broken because of her childhood she never thought she was good enough for Forrest, she always loved him. Jenny would have tried to reach Forrest to tell him she was pregnant/had a kid, but he was on the road running all those years and there was no way to get a hold of him.
Gotta say though, loved this reaction, you had my laughing all the way through :D
Forest is a man of morals,values,and ethics! New sub sees all those things in you! Great reaction keep em coming!
People always go one of 2 ways with Jenny. A lot of empathy and pity for her, or absolute hatred, both are valid. Somehow I knew Devin was gonna be on the hate side. 😅😅
As soon as I saw this video on my feed, I thought, "Damn, Jenny's bout to catch some hell." 🤣
Jenny was messed up due to the messed up situation she was living in as a child. As they say hurt people hurt people and she experienced a lot of trauma.
Jenney didn't think she was good enough for Forest, she mostly hurt herself. She didn't get her living situation together unfortunately until she was almost dying. Jenny's difficult circumstances were sad, but still this was an Excellent movie!
Can we donate to Devin to help him get a new chair HAHAHA
When the President asks Forest to see his wound, you can see the wheels turning in his head... "This is the President... If the President asks you to do something... you do it... it's the President"
And he is darn right. If being the President does not give you the right to see your soliders butts, what good is it being President at all?
Jenny is a character that gets no depth of explanation from the script I think it's because Forrest doesn't truly understand what happened to her, he says her father was "a very loving man". But all abusers use the same lines. It's never their fault, they lay the blame for their behavior on the victm. They say it's something about you that makes them hurt you. And it was the 1950's. Jenny never got counseling to help her understand that the things her father taught her weren't true, so she lived her life believing it. Every relationship started off well (the honeymoon period) and then changed. She truly believed that she was making good men act bad. Why would she get romantically involved with the brightest light she'd ever known when she feared she'd infect him with her darkness? He was a safe harbor, but it wasn't until the 80's and her (implied) 12 step program counseling that she realized it was never her fault. She deserves more credit than she gets. The script is unconcerned with helping the audience understand the victim psychologyy behind her behavior. I think she saw Forrest the same way you did, she just saw herself as unworthy of something as simple as real love. She didn't understand what that was until she got clean (that's why she slept so much at Forrest's house)and became a mom.
I have never seen anyone hate Jenny THIS much 😅😂😂😂😂😂
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. Observation: Bubba isn't exactly a small man. Forrest carried him with a bullet in his a$$.😱
11. 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."
12. 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 just 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.
17. Lt. Dan said "If you're ever a shrimp boat captain, that's the day I'm an astronaut", he comes to the wedding ceremony on his "custom made titanium alloy legs. It's what they use on the space shuttle".
18. Jenny's trying to jump off during the New Year celebration, the background song is Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd ("Dear God make me a bird, so I can fly far far far away from here")
19. If life is like a box of chocolates and you never know what you're going to get, then Jenny got the most bitter candy of them all.
@@anastasiapro6389 Fun fact: In the book Forrest rides in the space shuttle.
It's easy to hate on Jenny when you've never been Jenny.
As I get older I've learned to not hate her anymore but I still do dislike her. Someone can only be a victim for so long after the abuser is dead and rotting. It should be a pivotal point of closure and the victim working to not be affected by that anymore. In a way she did to move past it so I give the character and the writers props for that.
@@cavaliothorson7755 Jenny didn't suffer solely because of her father. A motherless, fatherless, sexually abused girl growing up with no support/therapy in the late 40's/early 50's is going to have a real rough time. Just because an abuser dies doesn't mean the victim can move on. That's the thing about abuse, it stays with and is carried by the victim, not the abuser. Jenny had 18 years of trauma to work through, that takes some time.
@@fluffernutter6633 And all that is horrible and life isn't fair, bad things happen to good people all the time. She ran away from the one guy who meant the world to her till she caved at the last minute. I already know the "she felt she didn't deserve Forrest" excuse, but she had to know he was never moving on from her. It might have been better if she died early on and then he could focus on a woman who actually deserves all that love thay he had for Jenny.
@@cavaliothorson7755 That's an extremely callous way of looking at things in my opinion. I'd argue the point further but this is a TH-cam comment and I don't know you, nor do I wish to proselytize you.
@@fluffernutter6633 I know how the world is and it wasn't my intention to be or appear callous. I feel bad for every victim of anything but life is a fight, happiness in a lot of cases is a fight, and success is a fight! I apologize, I won't insult you by trying to preach to you. I'll end on this, Jenny did fight in the end but she could've let Forrest fight alongside her earlier on, only downside is that Forrest wouldn't have done any of those amazing things I think if he and Jenny had stuck together in adolescence.
Some people come in and out of your life bringing blessing (Forrest) and some people come in and out of your life bringing trouble (Jenny). And if Jenny did have AIDS, that means Forrest might now have it. Thanks, Jenny.
You got it all wrong, still enjoyed the reaction 😂
The hell did Jenny do, man, she's just a traumatized girl trying desperately to figure herself out for almost the entire movie... I've never seen someone overreacting so much, you treating her character like she was a fucking nazi.
I'm so tried of people who S#$% on Jenny in this movie, she was abused by her father and yes that does have a Psychological affect on someone that will effect them for the rest of their live until they get help. And even Jenny admitted that she was mess up and got the help she need, and I think it was the fact she was going to have a child.
@@christinaseela6690 She treated Forrest like disposable trash for the entire film.
@@JANDERSO5554 excuse me?? she was the only one who shared her seat with him, she was his only friend for so many years during the school, she never said one bad word abt him, she felt worthless because of the abuse and tried to protect him from herself because she felt like he was too good for her.
my god some people use their heads just for eating...
@@anastasiapro6389 Endless excuses and zero accountability.
The whole point of Jenny is that what her father did to her set the wheels in motion for her emotional upheaval. All the continued abusive relationships. Her son was the start of her life that ended too soon.
love this movie so much
That makes both of us!
Serious question: are you the guy in that viral gym clip that confronted the bully who snatched two plates off that kid’s barbell mind set?
Yes
Yes I am!
@@DevinGtv901 Respect!
Is there a link to this? I want to see this clip
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A lotta people look at jenny as the villain for never getting with forest sooner but her past trauma is what kept her away from forest. She was his muse even though he never knew how rough her life was, that's why she came back to him in the end because she knew he always loved her and she loved him, just couldn't realize it til she got herself together, heartbreaking story Jenny had, the mom passing scene had me crying but that last scene under their tree tore me apart.
Damn, he didn’t get Jenny’s arc at all.
He didn't want to or even try to, right from the start. Smelled like misogyny to me.
@@larzapan lmao
Alot of people don't, I don't think its misogyny I think it's a lack of understanding for the kind of trauma she had
@@larzapan misogyny 😑 it has nothing to do with her being a woman. Do you watch his movie reactions? Do you see how common it is for him to have this attitude about one specific character? He does it all the time. There will be one charter he decides early on that he doesn’t like, and spends the entire movie intensely disliking them, even if they have a tragic backstory. Every time they are on screen he criticizes what they do or say. He’s had this attitude for male characters as well. Watch his Lord of the Rings reaction, see how intensely he hated Frodo or even Gollum. Even after people explained in the comments why they are the way they are. When he decides he doesn’t like a character, it’s because he doesn’t like the moves they make. It has absolutely nothing to do with their gender. So gtfoh outta here talking about “misogyny”. 🙄
Not only that, but a lot of people feel this way about Jenny, so stop it.
Mate 😂😂😂😂 ivw never seen anyone rage as much as you to Jenny!!
You're WAAAAAAY too hard on Jenny. I'm so disappointed in your hatred for her. Not a good mindset. She was sexually abused by her father as a little girl. No wonder she was messed up. She didn't think she deserved love or Forrest.
she was right about her not deserving forrest
@@joshsaunders6392 so she was protecting Forrest and should be commended not vilified.
@@zedwpd nah
I think the movie is about a persons ability to unconditionally love another and another not being able to love unconditionally at all.
It's hard to love someone else when you have no love for yourself.....at all
Bro, she was messed with by her dad, bro.
Dude, you seriously ruined the movie with that level of anger towards Jenny. Jenny wasn’t a saint, but you were raging about it and didn’t enjoy good parts. Work on you. The feather was jenny btw! She wanted to be a bird and fly away.
I've watched 30 of these Gump reactions. About half hate Jenny. You hate her the most. It's not her fault she is a flawed person because her father continually molested her. She never thought she was worthy of anyone's love; especially Forrest's. But she did the best she could with the cards that she was dealt, but you make it seem like she purposely tried to inflict pain on Forrest. She did not.
You're the definition of bro code lol, God bless you brother. One of the best reviews I've seen.
You need to be more forgiving with Jenny. As a survivor of sexual abuse, she was making bad choices with her life. She was not using Forrest. She appreciated him because he loved her as she was. He loved her without judgment. And he fought for her.
Everyone already explained in the comments about Jenny and that childhood trauma basically caused her to seek abuse in her relationships since that's all she knew as a kid, but my favorite thing was about Lt. Dan finally making peace with God. So much so, that he was engaged to a Vietnamese woman after going through the Vietnam War. Just shows that he doesn't have any animosity for that country or race.
While I enjoyed your support of Forrest, your lack of empathy for Jenny and the results of her abuse was offpilutting and disappointing 😑
Man that reaction surely was unique, i generally cry looking at that movie and you made me laugh about it so hard 😂
25:42 best part
You’re reactions to Jenny are absolutely priceless!
Jennys not "an idiot", she is highly damaged from what was done to her by her father. Her life is tragic, she spent most of it in pain and being hurt and unloved because that is what she was taught. She didnt really "chose" her life. None of us really do. We can only learn and try our best to overcome, but when you're not ever taught how to love and respect yourself, it can be a little harder. Being a human means having empathy for others who are suffering and in pain. Luckily those who are so harsh towards Jenny never had to endure what she did.
Not Forrest's job to fix her. He's the ultimate simp and a prime example of what not to be.
@@ahoyforsenchou7288Forest loves Jenny unconditionally. Nobody said it was his job. Forest took that job because he wanted to. It's not YOUR job to judge. Perhaps someday someone will overlook your flaws and love you anyway. I hope that happens for you.
She's a huuker user forest deserved better
We can make decisions later in life, so it is a choice. Just accept that his viewpoint is different than yours. He’s a great reactor because of his unique take. If you watch his American History X reaction, he doesn’t excuse what the car jackers are doing either and understands the severity of the truck getting stolen. Similarly, he views Jenny as an adult capable of turning her life around. So in that regard he actually treats her with more respect than a lot of people who simply see her as a victim. Now, I think the character could’ve been written better because a movie like this sort of skates over the abuse. I think the frustration with her is just that Forrest is shown as a very ideal person (yet it works) but stuff like her saying he doesn’t know what love is is very condescending. And I think we all know the happiest life would be with him. Lots of people would pray to have someone like Forrest. But anyways, his reactions are so great because he treats characters with respect and calls them out. He does it in American history x and he does it with both Lt. Dan and Jenny in this movie.
@@ahoyforsenchou7288LOL HE’S MENTALLY CHALLENGED, WHAT’S YOUR EXCUSE?