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"Forrest Gump" is reactionary garbage (www.indiewire.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't it crazy they started a whole restaurant chain off the movie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

the shrimp there isch very bad, every time I engorge myself on it? I get very sick, puking and shitting and sho on and sho forth. thisch isch not a problem when I feed on shrimp in Slovenia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Best bit account

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Still crazy that those places exist. Like after the boomers die off no one is gonna care about this movie so what’s the point.