forst gump film4

1 wrote:In the movie Forrest Gump, Jenny dies after contracting "some kind of viris" in the 1980s. Though never said specificly it can be heavily implied from Jenny's drug using and promiscuous lifestyle in the 60s and 70s could've led her to contracting HIV/AIDS.

Now, Jenny and Forrest had sex after Jenny's free-spirit days in that time period and when she was trying to straighten her life out, she also has Forrest, Jr. in this time. So, did Forrest and Forrest, Jr. contract HIV/AIDS from her?

Isn't this kind of a dark ending to Forrest Gump? That Forrest, Sr. lifespan has now been signifigantly reduced (and he doesn't even know it) and Forrest, Jr's life is going to be a short one as well?

2 wrote:As if the ending wasn't sad enough..

It seems like Jenny died from AIDS, because she had a lot of sex and shared needles with people all throughout the 70's (when HIV/AIDS was spreading and no one knew). And when she was diagnosed, the doctors didnt know what it was. She was just slowly decaying.. so it seems like all signs point to AIDS.

She came back had sex with Forest after her wild partying days and its entirely possible that she passed it onto him. If not, she could have picked it up after she left him and ran away again (during which time she had the kid and got the waitressing job), but that means that the KID still got the AIDS from her blood during pregnancy. I doubt she picked up the virus after she had the kid, because it seemed like she got her act together and was a responsible parent and not a whore anymore.

So because she was so reckless and loose in her younger days, that poor little kid got AIDS?? And probably Forest too, since I assume they boned after she came back for the last time and got married??

I know this whole theory is based on the assumption that Jenny did, in fact, die from AIDS. But I really think thats what the story implied.

My favorite movie of all time and I'll never be able to look at the same way. This is some messed up sh*t