I'm watching Forrest Gump.

Everybody always hates the Jenny character for how she treats Forrest but I really don't see her in that light. She was a broken little girl from the moment she was on the screen until the end. The way she treated Forrest was in my view, not using him, but she was keeping herself from treating him the way her father had treated her years in the past. Everyone sees Forrest as this retarded idiot, aspergers maybe, Jenny included. She knows him better than anyone else in the world other than his Mother. She is the only woman that he has ever wholly loved. I personally believe that she loved him even more but was afraid of what those feelings would actually mean to her. She didn't have this strong example of what love even meant because of her father and his abusive  advances. Every man she comes in contact with sees her as this thing to be lusted after and is afraid of hurting Forrest when all he wants is her love.
The script has it's stupid moments that I really hate though. The way she goes from abusive relationship to relationships where she is being taken advantage of is total crap. She just want to find her place in the world, where that is, she has a hard time discovering. She thinks that as long as they aren't what she had at home, it is right. But, she keeps going back to what she knows (getting beat on, sexually abused, pressured into drug addiction) I guess that is the reason that she gets so upset when Forrest defends her, she thinks that this is just the way life is.  Each time when she is alone and realizes that she has slipped back into the old ways, she moves on once again. She thinks that this is normal life.
She keeps Forrest at arms length because just like the movie, she thinks that he is so dumb that he really doesn't know what love is. She convinces herself as a young age that Forrest just believes he loves her because she showed him some friendship on that bus ride. This is total bullshit...What Forrest has for Jenny is simple and unencumbered love for the one woman that he will always keep in his heart. There is no way else to put it.  If you watch how she keeps leaving him through the movie, she runs the first time, rides, walks, then slowly rides off  with a glance back for the last time before she comes home for good. She is slowly realizing that she feels the same way about him as he has since their childhood. It was only at the end when she realized this about their relationship and totally opens up to him/shares her secret with Forrest. Her behavior isn't wrong. Her behavior is just what she sees as what will make her happy.
 Which, to me, is the saddest part of the whole movie.  This movie to too freaking depressing.




(edit)
Jenny just passed away...20 years old  and still makes me upset.