To be fair, they did help Jesse put Willy back in the ocean in the first movie. And they're the only people in Jesse's life that actually cared about him, and wanted him as a part of their lives.
I even thought the scene where Jesse reconnects with Willy and he says that his real mom died and he feels like he is all alone and has nobody, I thought that was a bit selfish. I understand that he is beyond upset about his own mother leaving and having another kid but he has a new family with the Greenwoods. I was like, Jesse, come on don't be like that
He was being a jerk at first because the Greenwoods felt like strangers to him when he first met them. And Jesse just wanted to know where his mom was, but nobody knew at the time. But then it scared him when they got into an argument in one scene because he found out that they actually wanted him to be part of their lives.
I feel bad for Dwight. He always seems to be present whenever Jesse has some sort of meltdown. Of course he's probably used to it seeing as how he's a social worker and just doing his job, and probably deals with this suff all the time.
It's understandable that Jesse would be upset and feeling hurt and betrayed finding out that after his mother abandoned him, she had another kid but kept him. Of course, at the end, Elvis gave Jesse an old picture of Jesse(when he was little) with their mother. Elvis said that she talked about Jesse all the time and was really sorry about what happened.
I can only imagine what a shock this news was to poor Jessie, finding out first of all that his mom was dead and that he would never see her again, and then that he had a little brother. I think that Dwight and the Greenwoods could have held off on the news about the brother until after Jessie had gotten over the initial shock of his mom dying. To be told not only that he had a little brother, but that said brother would be coming to live with them, in addition to the mom's death, was just too much to throw on a teenager all at once. That brother was a visible reminder that the mother had chosen to have another child after abandoning Jessie and ceasing all contact with him, and the idea of even seeing him would have taken some time for Jessie to get used to. The news should have been broken to Jessie in stages, but after all, this IS a movie, and multiple bouts of bad news right at the beginning of the film is apparently needed for the drama aspect!
You're wrong. Jessie isn't the one in pain. The little brother is. He's the one who knew her and lost her. Now he is thrown in with a punk who blames him for everything. Jessie is just a bastard that not even his own mother knew was worth anything! Elvis is an innocent kid. He would have never been such a fiend like Jessie was.
When I was a kid, I thought Jesse was "way" grown up in the sequel... I just stumbled on this video and realized he almost looks exactly like he did in the first movie! Perspective is weird...
But she left Jesse all alone and didn’t contact him at all. So having that thrown on him and then saying he’s got a brother is just a reminder to him that his mother chose another over him all over again. I can see where he’s hurting. He was just a teenager and it doesn’t help that he just got used to his mother abandoned him.
I personally feel that Jesse's birth mother was a little selfish for abandoning him and having another child afterwards that she raised and took responsibility for instead of wanting to have him back.
I know it’s a movie so they can’t drag out scenes forever but I felt like they sprung the news that he has a brother on him a little too fast. Get used to the idea that mom is gone first, they brought up the brother in like 2 seconds
Jesse wishes he should've tried to find his mother. Dwight says that she didn't want to be found. Besides, I doubt he would've found her if he had tried. They're in Portland, Oregon and she was in NYC which all the way across the country. There was no way, he would've found her 3,000 miles away. It seems like she tried to get as far away as she could without leaving the country.
Even though he had resigned himself to the fact that his mom “wasn’t coming back,” so Dwight had informed him two years prior in Free Willy 1 and he was finally willing to accept Glen and Annie for parents.
At least Jesse discovering that he had a half brother through his mother, whom Annie and Glenn were assigned to foster as well, had ultimately proved that she had cared for him all that time after all.
If Elvis was unplanned, yet she took responsibility to raise him, I believe it was very selfish of her to not want Jesse back in her life all the while both boys growing up as brothers together.
How could Jesse still miss his biological mother who probably was a bad mother who didn't even love her own son Jesse unlike his foster parents Annie and Glen since she probably just abandoned him on the street on purpose when he was only 6 years old and why didn't she even take Jesse least in to an orphanage or to some other adult relatives who would take care of Jessie if it was because she couldn't take care of him if Jesse's mother still really loved his own son Jesse?
Still I get in away but sometimes you have to understand…oh what’s the point anything I would say to him would just make it worse But still there are other people who at least help fill the void
