not so about Forrest Gump-—it portrayed Jenny’s erstwhile “boyfriend” ,an anti-war radical,
as a self-righteous punk who slugged her when she wouldn’t commit to everything he told her to do.
One of the many things in the film, at least to me, that seemed to be mocking Southerners is when Gump tells Jenny to go back to Green-bow AL-a-BAM-A as she boards the bus with the leftwing hippie, a William Ayers type. I try not to be easily offended but I thought that was a cartoonish representation of the people in the South. I walked out, actually got my money back at the ticket window and have never seen a milliseconds of the rest of Gump.
Due to that reaction on my part, maybe I missed a critical turning point that could have redeemed it. That's possible, because in spite of the hateful Tom Hanks, it does have Patriot Gary Sinese in a key role.