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[AjayC]

I mean, when she was diagnosed with AIDS at the end, did she really call him back because she loved him or was it really just more like "OH CRAP I HAVE TO FIND SOMEONE FOR FORREST JR"?

[Sweeney]

She did.

Where's the discussion in this... it's a love story

[Elindoril]

Even is she just needed to find someone to dump Forest Jr on, she at least knew of the best person to do so, since Forest always took care of Jenny, regardless of the circumstance.

Though, I'm pretty sure she loved him by the end of the movie, she went through a rather rough life, and Forest was always there for her, so after so many years she finally made up her mind and realized her true feelings for Forest. (Considering Forest loved Jenny all of his life.)

[AjayC]

I dunno, she seemed really sketchy on the whole loving Forrest thing. She never committed herself to him, until she absolutely had to. She ran off with so many different men, even when it was obvious that Forrest loved her.

[Noitidart]

Jenny... she's a slut.
I like sluts Give her my number

No she didn't love him at all.

[AjayC]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. She's was kind of using Forrest, and he was blissfully unaware

[Shinigami88]

no she thought she wasnt good enough for forest! so.. yes she did love him cuz she didnt wana bring him down, if she was just using him she wouldnt run away da first time. so uh yes she did love him ^^

[SillyInsaneLittleGirl]

haha this is an interesting discussion xD hmm...

it's hard to tell... isn't it? mmm... i think they loved each other, but it would be a boring kind of love so that's probably why jenny kept running off. i think forest knew that so he kind of just accepted it.... i mean they both pretty much did what they wanted xD

[kbbbb]

Love isn't black and white. There are many shades, and then there's love that maybe you love someone, but it's not enough. Some people are very in love but they fight and they're not together because they can't sort out their differences. Probably, she had a very strong affection for him but she desired more from a man, or different from what Forrest offered her, right or wrong.

[unworthy]

I bet she probably loved him as a friend..sometimes friends have sex, sometimes they dont. Sometimes they have a kid by accident together.

I bet in her case she really didn't love him as a lover. She probably loved him as an individual and a friend and wanted to give him the experience of sex..or just a boob grab. She cared for him but didn't care to be with him.

Since she did not even tell him about his son until she was dying means she did not want him in her son's life as if to let him live a normal life without people knowing about his retarded dad.

When you aren't going to be around it kind of changes the circumstances.

I do not think it was a love story. From what I've seen in some clips about the movie it was supposed to be a parody about him achieving so much and being in so many famous or historical events without even realizing it.

Anyways,

If you loved someone you wouldn't avoid them your whole life as a way of showing it..even if you felt that they deserved better than you.

[Grizzly]

I like where this debate is going

[SillyInsaneLittleGirl]

when i watched it so many years ago i never really understood the purpose of the movie. It was shown in social studies class because it had a lot of historical moments and that's why we watched it in class. But other than that i had no idea what it was about lol.

but i have to agree i don't think it was a love story. forest just seemed to always be jenny's fallback. and also i don't remember it well i suppose but i don't think it was clear at all that there it was definitely forest's son except jenny saying so. she's is definitely not a trustworthy character imo

[AjayC]

when i watched it so many years ago i never really understood the purpose of the movie. It was shown in social studies class because it had a lot of historical moments and that's why we watched it in class. But other than that i had no idea what it was about lol.

but i have to agree i don't think it was a love story. forest just seemed to always be jenny's fallback. and also i don't remember it well i suppose but i don't think it was clear at all that there it was definitely forest's son except jenny saying so. she's is definitely not a trustworthy character imo

True. I never thought about the possibility that Forrest Jr. could be a son from a different father. Did Jenny and Forrest ever have sex? Except that one time that they were in college?

[SillyInsaneLittleGirl]

yeah i don't really remember them every hooking up at all... I think she just named her son after forest because forest was probably the only male person in her life that ever truly cared about her

[unworthy]

When Jenny was in college she let him touch her boob and then he came in his pants.

Later on she came back to him and they "spend the night together" then in the morning she ran away again. It was his child..just one of those cases where you have sex with a person once and they are pregnant.

[AjayC]

When Jenny was in college she let him touch her boob and then he came in his pants.

Later on she came back to him and they "spend the night together" then in the morning she ran away again. It was his child..just one of those cases where you have sex with a person once and they are pregnant.

But there had to be AT LEAST 10 -15 years between the alleged sex and the revealing of the baby.


But looking this up on a well-known informational website. Forrest and Jenny DID have sex when Jenny comes to Forrest's house and she leaves the next day. Then he runs. I completely forgot about that.

[unworthy]

Hah I forgot that there was a long time inbetween. Weird I guess then he wasn't his son. Would explain why he looked a lot like the kid from the sixth sense and not forrest....

[luvsmyncis]

Uuh... no. She didn't stick him with someone else's child. That was his son. Because they did have sex. In the movie. Remember? Yes, time did go by, but the kid wasn't a newborn when they were reunited. Also, in the movie, there was a character named Lieutenant Dan who was friggin awesome.

They loved each other. But they were both really stupid, so it didn't work out.

[Elindoril]

Hah I forgot that there was a long time inbetween. Weird I guess then he wasn't his son. Would explain why he looked a lot like the kid from the sixth sense and not forrest....

It WAS his son, when Jenny came back to Forrests house near the end of the movie and stayed there for a while, she went into his room and they slept together, but after that she took off again.

It doesn't matter what the actor looked like, yes it was Haley Joel Osment, but that doesn't mean it wasn't his son, they really can't get a kid that physically LOOKS like Forrest (Tom Hanks), because that means Tom would actually need a child the same age as Forrest Jr was and that Tom and the mother would allow him to be in the film.

(Geez, not that hard)

[unworthy]

It WAS his son, when Jenny came back to Forrests house near the end of the movie and stayed there for a while, she went into his room and they slept together, but after that she took off again.

It doesn't matter what the actor looked like, yes it was Haley Joel Osment, but that doesn't mean it wasn't his son, they really can't get a kid that physically LOOKS like Forrest (Tom Hanks), because that means Tom would actually need a child the same age as Forrest Jr was and that Tom and the mother would allow him to be in the film.

(Geez, not that hard)

I'll have to work on making my sarcasm more noticable when I type so people dont have to keep shitting bricks over nothing.

*sarcasm* Oh wow! I really thought they would have just made tom have a child for the movie so that he could get the part. *sarcasm*

[luvsmyncis]

I'll have to work on making my sarcasm more noticable when I type so people dont have to keep shitting bricks over nothing.

*sarcasm* Oh wow! I really thought they would have just made tom have a child for the movie so that he could get the part. *sarcasm*

Oh, thank goodness you were only being sarcastic. Because we were all REALLY seriously totally shitting bricks because of this mucho importante discussion about a Tom Hanks movie. Whew. I needlessly had to use Tucks on my aching butthole all because I thought you were serious.
And just to be on topic:
Haley Joel Osment looks retarded, thus making him perfect for the part of Forest Gump's child.
Hey, remember when Forest Gump beat up that one dude who was Jenny's boyfriend, who in turn coined the phrase, "BULLSHIT ASSHOLE"? That was hilarious.

p.s. Some might not agree Jenny loved Forest, but there's no denying Tom Hanks loved Wilson in Cast Away.