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I thought it was pretty obvious. Was also a tad annoying as because she was liberal and anti war and was a sexually liberated woman...well then she is a whore
by bruceb 13y ago
I thought it was pretty obvious.
Was also a tad annoying as because she was liberal and anti war and was a sexually liberated woman...well then she is a whore that will get her payback by being given aids.
I thought it was a good movie but it had touches of right-wing propaganda.
- varjag 13y agoSTDs are hardly propaganda, and promiscuity does indeed increase the risk. Besides she was clearly a troubled youth, with sexual abuse home and her further abusive relationships conveyed early in the movie.
- xauronx 13y agoAids was invented by the right wing propaganda machine to punish homosexuals though, so tomato tomato.
- bruceb 13y agoMajor Dan was getting it on with prostitutes but he doesn't get aids. It also showed the anti war guy just happens to be a women beater...
- varjag 13y agoMajor Dan gets both legs lost and ends up a pathetic drunkard in wheelchair without purpose, I'd think it's bad enough, no? And John Lennon, with his "Imagine", was a wife beater. Do not confuse political convictions with person's character.
- mhurron 13y agoAre you saying anti-war protesters can't be women beaters? That liberated women can't get AIDS? That in the late 70's prostitutes were guaranteed ways of getting this disease that wasn't widespread yet? Forrest Gump had very real characters. Jenny had a shitty life, which continued to be shitty by her choices. This really happens to people from shitty backgrounds because they don't recognize shitty situations as shitty, but as normal. Had she stayed with Forrest, her life wouldn't have been that way, but she still could have been the strong woman that was part of her personality. She just didn't recognize when a good thing came her way. Lots of people did heroin and hookers before AIDS was everywhere, not all of them contracted HIV. That's the nature of a mystery disease. Lt. Dan also fell into a depression that Forrest helped pull him out of, just by being a good influence. Lt. Dan had the life Jenny could have, Forrest made the lives of people around him better by being a good person. Between that and the rapid changes the world went through from 1950 to ~1985 is what the movie is about. It's not a propaganda film, despite your strongest wishes that it were.
- loup-vaillant 13y agoPropaganda or no, our brains do have a tendency to mix up correlation and causation (most notably because many times, correlation does come from causation), and a tendency to draw conclusions from fiction as well as from reality. Someone who notices both her AIDS and her left-wing behaviour will likely be a tiny bit more confident that one causes the other. (Now, I do see her as a prisoner of her shitty situation, and not as a "liberated" woman.)
- newnewnew 13y agoWhat's really going to blow your mind is the statistics on who gets HIV infections in the United States today: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/basics/ataglance.html http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/basics/ataglance.html What an un-PC virus. Doesn't it know we're living in 2013? I'm told reality is supposed to have a liberal bias now.
- jaxytee 13y agoIt actually didn't suprise me at all that oppressed groups have the highest incident of HIV infection.
- lucisferre 13y agoYes I've heard that there is new research that shows oppression gives you HIV.
- peterjancelis 13y agoAre you saying people are being oppressed into having unprotected sex?
- maerF0x0 13y agoor that they receive fewer opportunities for education and distribution of said protection (eg, a richer school may have free condom distribution, but a poorer one does not?). Maybe because cultures of "Abstinence" (eg, teach them abstinence and dont give them condoms/protection, then wonder why they get diseases)... This is all supposition, I'll let others lay down the facts.
- downandout 13y agoYes, unfortunately science is rarely PC. Behavior and genetics are by far the strongest determinants of your risk for acquiring HIV. No parade, protest, or law will change that.
- keithflower 13y ago