Good Will Hunting is a really fantastic film. It was the one that brought Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to fame. The two, now famous actors, wrote the script when they were still dirt poor and trying to scrape by. Now both are hugely famous actors that make multiple movies a year and are known by just about everyone in the country. The film is about Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT who has an amazing gift for mathematics, however problems with an abusing family have kept him trapped in a low paying job so that he can remain by the comfort of his childhood friends.
The film has aspects that make you laugh, and it certainly has no shortage of emotional scenes as well. Throughout, Matt Damon’s character, Will Hunting, is working with a respected mathematics professor from MIT. Will is a genius and organizations from all across America are looking to hire him for high paying positions. Will though doesn’t want to take any of them, he doesn’t want to because they will require him to leave his three best friends, Sean, Morgan, and Billy who are a source of comfort and love for Will. It is powerful in the sense that, for those of us that don’t have any personal experience with physical abuse it is crazy to think of how long it can affect someone. Will is well into his twenties in the film, and was abused as a teenager, and still he is very much trapped because of what his father did to him. It is only when he falls in love with a girl named Skylar and decides to follow her across the country that he breaks out of his shell. He sets himself free, but he also sets his friends free who only want the best for him and want to him take advantage of his brain. Overall, maybe my favorite movie of all time.
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