‘Forrest Gump,’ 25 Years Later: A Bad Movie That Gets Worse With Age
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"Gump" backlash is nothing new. But these days, it's even more problematic than it used to be.

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.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I never interpreted this movie as pro-conservatism. In fact, I’ve always seen it as a pretty straight forward anti-war statement

    If anything, I’ve always seen this movie as a pretty profound statement of the harm American conservatism has done to generations of people

    Like 3 pages in and I finally found a comment that disagrees with the article without being a complete moron. Still lib as hell, but way better than the oinking rabble in the rest of the comments.