Good Will Hunting Ethos

For this assignment I have chosen to focus on the film Good Will Hunting primarily because I have seen the movie prior to this course and I feel it is one of the best films I have gotten a chance to see. Will Hunting's profound genius was as much a burden as it was a gift. Initially seeing the film I enjoyed it but viewing the film in the scope of all that I have learned in this course made the viewing experience much more meaningful, as I now had a deeper understanding of Will's internal conficts, and how they directly effected his relationships, beliefs, and actions. The film is an excellent example of the issues involving interpersonal communication and how they play a part in either making or breaking our

Will 's group of friends seem to pick on him and judge him, which questions if they are truly his friends or not and if he truly fits in with him.

This occurs at a crucial moment of possible negative consequence. As Mr.Dark attempts to influence Charles and the boys, Charles learns of the weakness of boys. “Will!’ His father savagely jabbed a finger at him and at Jim. Damn it, Willy, all this, all these, Mr. Dark and his sort, they like crying, my God, they love tears! Jesus God, the more you bawl, the more they drink the salt off your chin. Wail and they suck your breath like cats. Get up! Get off your knees, damn it! Jump around! Whoop and holler! You hear! Shout, Will, sing, but most of all laugh, you got that, laugh!’” Charles now understands that the weakness of evil is good, and positivity. While doing this he learns to accept himself, despite his age. In doing this he understands that the way in which he once thought of himself was a wrongdoing and a possible influence of evil. He learned to fight this and accept whom he is and accept the good that fights

Will McLean is a cadet at the Carolina Military institute who finds life to be physically and emotionally brutal. Will promised his father who passed away that he would attend the Institute, but has no real interest in a military career. In the beginning Will is placed outside of his comfort zone due to his Roman Catholic faith and Irish Background, compared to all the other southern born cadets. He is not really experienced with military training but does show some athleticism and hard work in the classroom. Will has a flashback of when he experienced “hell night” during

More specifically, the film discusses the issue of plagiarism, or simply regurgitating information and the lack of freethought. This primarily is seen in the confrontation scene between Will Hunting and a graduate student at a Harvard bar. In the scene, Will Hunting realizes the graduate student’s plagiarism of a textbook and remarks by asking the graduate student if he has any thoughts of his own (Good Will Hunting). By framing Will Hunting as the definite winner of this argument, the film implicitly suggests that college-educated students, though book-smart, lack the judgment needed to actualize their potentials and think in new, innovative ways. Therefore, this scene’s main takeaway can be summed up by bell hooks’ statement that the university is like “a haven for those who are smart in book knowledge” but who are not self-actualized in any way (303).

The film ‘Good Will Hunting’ (1997) tells the Story of a young man named Will Hunting. Will is working as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) when it is discovered by a professor there that he is a mathematical genius. Will’s gift in Mathematics is extremely valuable and marvelous to others in the film, but Will himself does not see its importance. In an effort to help Will: find direction, get out of trouble with the law, and deal with his past trauma with abuse and being in the foster system, his math mentor arranges for him to meet Sean Maguire a psychologist. Sean’s style of therapy, although at times unethical, is proven to be beneficial for this particular client, even if ethical boundaries such as: countertransference,

Good will Hunting is a movie that teaches us many good things about the world. The main character of the movie is Will, who goes through many struggles and has a reason to be angry at the world. As he is shown in the movie and the way that he acts is because of the way that he was brought up as a child. He had an abusive father, who always abused him as a child, which caused him to live an unhappy life. His childhood had an effect on future, he turned out to abusive to people around him, and he showed angered towards the world, in order to take out his own anger. Often times when a child is abuse at a young age, they become abusive when they grow up. For example in the movie will attack a youth, who use to bully him in kindergarten, after this incident he faces imprisonment for attacking a police

While reading the story “Good Will Hunting”, I couldn’t help but think of something that my parents had instilled upon me growing up. Growing up my parents always taught me to always give the same amount of respect to the janitor, as you would the CEO. This statement did, and still does hold true for me today. Unfortunately though, I’m not certain that this statement holds true for the rest of our society. I think that we often overlook the things that don’t really seem to affect us. The things that are done behind the scenes. Not only do we overlook what is done, we also overlook the person that took the time to do them. Even more importantly, I think that we often overlook the talents that those people possess. Mainly because we look at

Good Will Hunting is about a MIT janitor, who is played by Matt Damon, that likes to party and hang around the same old, trouble making crowd. He is a gifted genius who fails to appreciate his gift. Matt Damon’s character’s name is Will Hunting, who is totally content with spending his life hanging out with his friends, drinking beers, and working the same dead end job.

He’s behind in his rent. Will overdoes on pills, but not the right kind to kill him. When Jack and Vincent learn that Will tried to kill himself, they decide they need to intervene. They think about getting professional help, but decide to do their own form or intervention. They invite Will to a club as a ruse for the intervention. However, later, they overhead Will talk to Heather and their other friends, who all talk negative about Jack and Vincent. Will also makes a date with Heather. Will doesn’t plan to go to the club with them at all.

Good Will Hunting, directed by Gus Van Sant and released in 1997, focuses on an underprivileged young man and his group of friends from a lower class Irish area of Boston. Will, who is the main character, works as a janitor at an elite college, but he is actually a genius. Professors discover his ability after Will proves a mathematical theorem anonymously on a chalkboard at the college. Despite his intelligence, he has a criminal record and violent tendencies. Generally, he hides his intellect to fit with those closest to him. The bar scene gives deep insight into the entire movie, showing the interpersonal conflict inside Will; being forced to choose between fitting in with his hoodlum family of friends and his potential life among the educated.

As mentioned in the movie Will was a foster child whom was from home to home. To begin with, his mother didn't want him to start with. Therefore, right of the bat there are attachment issues going on. Since his birth mother didn't have an attachment with him to begin with. So growing up Will had an insecure avoidant attachment since he showed little or no interest in what home he went to. So as he grew up he picked his friends and looked at chuckie as a father figure. So when he got into a relationship he was insecure that she actually loved him therefore, he put a defense mechanism up and decided to leave rather than stay and get his feeling hurt. In other words he would rather leave someone rather then that person leaving him. Towards the end Will was able to open up and realize that nothing that happened in his life was his fault. Thanks to his psychologist Sean that helped

In the movie Good will hunting Matt Damon’s character Will hunting can be described in many ways to start off he is lost by this I mean he does not know what direction he should go. He does not really know where he wants his life to go he suppresses his feelings toward things that he likes he doesn't want to commit to something that he is good at. He can also be described as a genius he knows everything he is also cocky thinking that he knows everyone and who they are just by reading a book they wrote or analyzing a painting by them something that will does not know is himself he doesn't really know who he is and where he is going with his life because he suppresses his actual feelings for things he likes or things that he might like. Will

Will is an orphan who grew up in foster homes. He is from a poor South Boston neighborhood. He lives alone in a junky house. His jobs were working as a janitor and a construction worker. Will is considered low-class status. He does not have higher education but is very intelligent. He was able to educate himself through books. He can recite what he has read and is able to solve difficult math problems. He doesn’t see himself getting out of town and doing something bigger of himself. Will’s economic situation and how it’s portrayed in this film is very realistic. He is a working-class man that just lives off of what he only needs.

The fear of never being understood by someone is what isolates us from ever trying to be understood. In the film, Good Will Hunting the main character Will has this tough persona and wants people to think that there is nothing emotionally wrong with him. Like every young adult Will just wants to live life hanging out with his friends and act reckless. During the day Will works as a janitor at MIT in Boston, where he solves a mathematical problem which according to Professor Lambeau a genius mathematician that problem couldn't be solved for two years. After Will goes to court and gets arrested for several assaults Professor Lambeau reaches out to him and bails him out under two conditions: to meet up with him every Saturday to solve math problems and attend therapy as the court recommended. In which, Will accepts later meeting Sean Maguire his soon to be psychologist and eventually friend overcoming everything that they both had to get over which was fear of abandonment.