Classic among classics, the movie Forrest Gump will have made more than one cry. But the particularly tragic ending saw one of its mysteries confirmed, and believe us, you're going to need some tissues.
Robert Zemeckis signs in 1994 a film which will become monument:Forrest Gump . The story of a child, simple-minded but simply endearing, who will become a man of 1001 adventures. Exceptional music, a Tom Hanks at the top of his game and each more tragic death… So many elements that won the feature film no less than six Oscars, including that of best picture. But, one element of the outcome has not been clearly explained and remains particularly tragic.
It's the eternal love of Forrest . From her young childhood bullied by other fundamentally wicked students, to her adult life, the life of the character played by Tom Hanks will revolve around Jenny. But if she was present at the beginning and then at the end, "the bird " what is the young woman, will fly away and live incredible adventures and will abandon Forrest who will go to war or create his shrimp company, unrealized dream of the touching Bubba .
Towards the end of the film, however, Jenny will temporarily return to the arms of the man who has always loved her, thus spending a few weeks with him, before setting off again to pursue her life.
But the strength of Forrest Gump , it is undeniably the emotion aroused at each of the deaths of characters. From Bubba, gone in the arms of our hero, to the latter's mother, in her mansion in Greenbow in "ALABAMA !”, it will surely be that of Jenny, who has become the mother of little Forrest. We learn in the last quarter of the film that she is sick and that she has a “virus which the doctors know nothing about ". Two theories then emerged later, AIDS or Hepatitis. The screenwriter of the film, Eric Roth nevertheless put an end to the debate in 2019 in an interview delivered to Yahoo.
Jenny died of AIDS . An end that is all the more tragic since we imagine that the young Forrest could suddenly also be infected. In addition, a sequel to the film was on the boards in 2001 and was to show the life of the boy, carrier of the disease.
