Jenny was a skank like Forrest's mom, guess he had a bit of a complex. is probably not his kid so whatever, Haley Joel Osment was solid in that role. We enable the bad by being blind to it, we're villains by association.īut hey, Forrest Jr. So America by proxy is just a group of people so unable to see reality that we miss that our friends are using us while they themselves are diseased and spreading bad around the world. Forrest is a simpleton, someone who would probably be described as severely autistic or such in today's world. If Americans are meant to be resembling Forrest than we're all dumb, mentally disabled people, crippled not by our bodies but by our own impaired minds. Despite the fact that the young Forrest is. To illustrate this philosophy, in an early scene, Mrs Gump tries to instil in her son a belief that he is the same as everybody else. You’ve got to do the best with what God gave you. If Forrest is meant to be the exemplar of Americanism, the boy who plays by the code and lives a good life despite everyone around him being broken, diseased, or used, the goddamn if Americanism and Americans on a whole fucked. On her deathbed, Mrs Gump summarises this philosophy: I happen to believe you make your own destiny. However Forrest Gump is not a conservative piece of film nor a liberal piece. I also don't think Forrest Gump is amazing nor do I think it adds much to cinema. Definitely not amazing and will probably remembered as a halfway decent adult cinema experience from the 90s. Now, I think Forrest Gump is a fun movie. I would like to just comment on something many people are saying about Jenny and Forrest. It was a whole bunch of lucky coincidences that wouldn't happen in most people.) (And before you think "Oh, why don't we just give people with HIV bone marrow transplants, there were a number of other factors that also happened, including 'graft vs host disease' where the transplanted cells attacked the host cells, normally a bad thing but in this case essential to eliminate HIV reservoirs in the host cells and prevent reinfection. He had HIV and leukemia, and part of his treatment for leukemia was a bone marrow transplant that just happened to be from someone who had the Delta32 mutation. That's actually how the only person to be 'cured' of HIV, the Berlin patient, had it happen. When CCR5 is on the surface of the cell, HIV is able to latch on to it and infect the cell when it is not, the cell’s “door” is effectively closed to HIV, making people with that mutation immune. There is a mutation, called Delta32, that keeps a protein called CCR5 from rising to the surface of the immune system’s T cells.
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