-181 In Forest Gump it was assumed that Jenny died of AIDS, and since Forest and Jenny obviously had sex wouldn't that mean Forest Has AIDS too, amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Don't trash Forrest Gump. Just don't.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

he wasnt trashing

by Anonymous 14 years ago

And I wasn't trashing Forest, Its one of my all time favorite movies, it's just an honest question.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I always wondered about that.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yeah, because if you have sex with someone that doesn't have aids, but then they go get aids, you get the aids too. Even though you didn't have sex with them after they got aids.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

huh? so if you sleep with someone who doesn't have aids, and then they sleep with someone else who has aids doesn't mean your going to get it too.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I know that. That was all sarcastic. If Jenny got aids after her and Forest fucked then Forest wouldn't have it.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

ohhhh haha sarcasm doesn't travel well over the internet..my bad :P

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yeah, I know.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

But little Forrest would. :(

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Well, she died from having AIDS but you can get HIV and not show symptoms for years and she obviously had a kid after having sex with Forrest so hopefully she wasn't having random sex after the kid was born. So it is probably accurate to assume that she had HIV when she slept with Forrest which would have made it possible for him to get it.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

LALALA I WONT BELIEVE YOU...because then forrest will die! :(

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Haha, but i would guess that for the sake of the movie they decided that this was one of the RARE cases where you have sex with someone with HIV and they don't get it. It hardly ever happens but its possible

by Anonymous 14 years ago

jenny was a prostitute. she had sex with 2895789237 men and did drugs. she didnt deserve Forrest.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

but forrest didnt care! she was his girl! they was like peas and carrots! D=

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I'm 99% sure Jenny got AIDS after she slept with Forrest. Not from Forrest, but after she slept with someone else after him :P

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That's exactly what I was going to say

by Anonymous 14 years ago

So, she slept with Forrest, waited 9 months to have a baby, then continued having sex with random dudes and then got aids?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't AIDS take like more than 5 years, sometimes closer to ten, to show symptoms, and it takes even longer before you become deathly ill. And little Forrest couldn't have been more than like 7 at the end of the movie. So if she got it after she had Forrest's kid the timeline doesn't really match up for how quick she died.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

You don't die from AIDS, you die from the illness you get from lack of t-cells. It's very possible that Jenny had AIDS, got a small illness from someone, and due to her lack of cells, got extremely sick.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

(Katffro):

by Anonymous 14 years ago

No I meant that Jenny had AIDS BEFOR she slept with Forest but just didn't know it then, cuz it can be years befor you start showing the symptoms of the disease

by Anonymous 14 years ago

No I meant that Jenny had AIDS BEFOR she slept with Forest but just didn't know it then, cuz it can be years befor you start showing the symptoms of the disease

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That would make a lot of sense especially since it would have been the 80s when she contracted the disease and seeing as AIDS was just an up and coming disease, she could have had it for a long time before she or her doctors knew what it was.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

In that case, wouldn't Forrest have aids too? And wouldn't little Forrest have been born with it or something?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

way to spell Forrest wrong.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

AIDS is not the illness that people die from. People die because of opportunistic diseases such a pneumonia or TB caused by a lack of T-lymphocyte cells. Also, a person doesn't automatically contract AIDS; they get HIV and that can take up to 12 weeks to show in the blood cells, even though they can spread the disease immediately and it can take anywhere from 3 months to 30 year for HIV to develop into AIDS. There is also a chance that someone doesn't get HIV even if they sleep with someone who is HIV positive, but they are really low chances.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I'm so confused right now... Maybe I just haven't seen the movie in forever but I don't remember anything about aids or little forrest. For some reason in my head the ending is at the monument when he's getting an award and they jump in the pool and run and huge. The end? Maybe I just haven't seen it in too long

by Anonymous 14 years ago

ITS A MOVIE LET IT SLIDE!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

If TeamAvatar is right, it would explain the movie Philadelphia. All though I haven't really seen Philadelphia...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Jenny got AIDS from the drug use. Idk about the Forest part but Im guessing he didn't get it

by Anonymous 14 years ago

When did it say she had AIDS? I thought she had cancer.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I thought she had cancer too...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I don't know about the movie but team avatar is the best screen name ever.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

that it is my friend... that it is

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i didnt know she had AIDS. when did they say that? i thought they didnt specify what she had... she just said she had a 'virus'... right? or am i just terribly un-observant (yes, im aware its not a word)?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It's not even specified that she ever had AIDS, so stop arguing.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I believe Jenny contracted HIV from intravenous drug use. She DID show symptoms when she went to live with Forrest.... Remember how he said she slept all the time. Mothers have a 25-30% chance of passing on to their fetus so it's possible little Forrest never contracted the virus... Or he did and just didn't show symptoms himself yet. Same goes for big Forrest. The time Jenny had the virus, they new very little about it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I sleep all the time and I don't have AIDS. She was sleeping because she was exhausted from life. HIV is pretty much dormant until AIDS starts to develop and it usually takes about ten years. People never die from HIV as fast as Jenny did in the movie. It's possible Jenny is just the example of what a lot of people were doing at those times in history. I don't think the shooting up scene implies she contracted AIDS, it just shows it was a low point in life for her and our nations party scene. People often colloquially refer to diseases they have as viruses even when they are not.

by Anonymous 11 years ago