GOOD WILL HUNTING

Though Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has genius-level intelligence (such as a talent for memorizing facts and an intuitive ability to prove sophisticated mathematical theorems), he works as a janitor at MIT and lives alone in a sparsely furnished apartment in an impoverished South Boston neighborhood. An abused foster child, he subconsciously blames himself for his unhappy upbringing and turns this self-loathing into a form of self-sabotage in both his professional and emotional lives.There the ambitious math teacher(Stellan Skarsgard) seeing his talent towards mathematics tries to help him and use his skills for maths and a bereaved shrink Sean(Robin Williams) who tries to turn Hunting's life around and a girl(Minnie Driver) he meets in a bar who likes him so much but cant break the wall that Hunting built because of his background but there are his best friends (Ben Affleck),(Casey Affleck)whom have the closest relationship due Directed by Gus Van Sant who is also the director of this year's Oscar nominee "Milk",written by both Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.There is so much to talk about the movie as it is one the greatest classics.The story of friendship,love,destiny and so on.........The cast as seen above fantastic and the story as well.

Much of the film's dialogues are good examples for a lesson in life.You don't even need to watch the movie but listening the dialogues would be enough if one must take a lesson.People around him wants to help him recover his life even his best friend(Ben Affleck) even in real life,though likes to hang out with him tells him"You are sitting on an winning lottery ticket.It would be insult to us if you are still around here in 20 years".And Sean,the shrink(Robin Williams)speaking of his wife and saying that he doesn;t regret a single day he spent with her even in her sick times or how he prerefered to have a drink with her when they first meet instead of going to the World Series of a baseball game.The most striking part is also the fact that Damon and Ben Affleck are also real life best friends and being raised in the same neighborhood in Boston also makes the film more touching as these best friends went after their dreams and became an actors.The touching story of a young talented man who had been abused by his father thus built a wall with the strangers and hardly lets somebody to enter his life and Sean trying to achieve that facing difficulties in the beginning but in the end achieves it and becomes like a surrogate father and the girl who loves this stubborn and not so open man but gives up in the end and leaves the town.Affleck as his best friend wishing the very best for his best friend even though that means Damon will leave the area to become what he is supposed to be.This film is one of the greatest drama with its dialogues,actings and the storyline.

"In essence, Good Will Hunting is an ordinary story told well. Taken as a whole, there's little that's special about this tale -- it follows a traditional narrative path, leaves the audience with a warm, fuzzy feeling, and never really challenges or surprises us. But it's intelligently written (with dialogue that is occasionally brilliant), strongly directed, and nicely acted. So, while Good Will Hunting is far from a late-year masterpiece, it's a worthwhile sample of entertainment".

James Berardinelli

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