Forrest Gump: Love it or Hate it?

In defense of Jenny
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Robin Wright has hit back at critics who branded her Forrest Gump character Jenny as “anti-feminist”, describing her relationship with the film’s title character as “the sweetest love story.”

Jenny’s arc within the film, which takes her from childhood sexual abuse through drug use to an untimely death, has been widely criticised in the 30 years since the movie came out. The Independent’s Louis Chilton included it in a recent list of the “most problematic films ever made” thanks to “the film’s puritanical slut-shaming towards Robin Wright’s Jenny.”

In a new interview with The New York Times, Wright was asked whether Jenny was “punished for her choices” and if the role is “anti-feminist.”

“No! It’s not about that,” Wright responded. “People have said she’s a Voldemort to Forrest. I wouldn’t choose that as a reference, but she was kind of selfish. I don’t think it’s a punishment that she gets AIDS. She was so promiscuous — that was the selfishness that she did to Forrest.

“He was in love with her from Day 1. And she was just flighty and running and doing coke and hooking up with a Black Panther.

“And then she gets sick and says, ‘This is your child. But I’m dying.’ And he still takes her: ‘I’ll take care of you at Mama’s house.’ I mean, it’s the sweetest love story.”...........

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...robin-wright-forrest-gump-jenny-b2640735.html