Besides she was clearly a troubled youth, with sexual abuse home and her further abusive relationships conveyed early in the movie.
Forrest Gump had very real characters. Jenny had a shitty life, which continued to be shitty by her choices. This really happens to people from shitty backgrounds because they don't recognize shitty situations as shitty, but as normal. Had she stayed with Forrest, her life wouldn't have been that way, but she still could have been the strong woman that was part of her personality. She just didn't recognize when a good thing came her way.
Lots of people did heroin and hookers before AIDS was everywhere, not all of them contracted HIV. That's the nature of a mystery disease. Lt. Dan also fell into a depression that Forrest helped pull him out of, just by being a good influence. Lt. Dan had the life Jenny could have, Forrest made the lives of people around him better by being a good person. Between that and the rapid changes the world went through from 1950 to ~1985 is what the movie is about.
It's not a propaganda film, despite your strongest wishes that it were.
can you really not see the argument being made? the original post was not saying no women got aids, or that no anti-war protesters are wife-beaters. it was arguing that there is a systematic bias.
i don't know if that's true or not, but wilfully misunderstanding or misrepresenting the argument doesn't help anyone.
Someone who notices both her AIDS and her left-wing behaviour will likely be a tiny bit more confident that one causes the other.
(Now, I do see her as a prisoner of her shitty situation, and not as a "liberated" woman.)
Kinda rewarding "bad" behavior though right? this is the first time PG has sorta commented on any comment I have made.
And John Lennon, with his "Imagine", was a wife beater. Do not confuse political convictions with person's character.
I also thought it was great how they handle the subject in that movie. And what about Forest who loves Jenny regardless anything on her past?
