I was gonna do a writeup but this author sums up my thoughts pretty well. I always hated how the movie portrayed Jenny. It's like the movie tries to punish her for daring to move against the broader (white, patriarchal, militaristic, conservative) culture. Notice how she only receives redemption when she functionally gives up her counter-cultural ways and accepts her role as a mom. And even then she still gets "punished" for her "sins" by dying of AIDS like it's some Grimm fairy tale. Feels a bit like incel fan-fiction, in hindsight.
And of course the movie panders to white reactionary notions of the Black Panthers. They were just angry black men who were reverse racists. Gross.
Forrest Gump is incredibly reactionary and it's terrible. It's the conservative boomers' attempt to tell a morality tale in which they are the ultimate victors over their contemporaries who dared for something different.
Good article, but it's pretty funny that they reference Natural Born Killers as a contemporary movie with more radical energy. That movie has aged like milk, whereas Forrest Gump is exactly as boring as it's always been
Never seen Natural Born Killers, what is it and how did it age poorly?
It's a movie by Oliver Stone about two teen serial killers who become celebrities. It has a lot to say about like, society
Aged poorly? It sounds like it did a pretty good job predicting the trend of mass shooters getting deranged adulation in places like 4chan
You're welcome to check it out