Good Will Hunting

Thus, meaning that what one culture or group of individuals might esteem praise worthy may be frowned upon by another culture or society. In the beginning of Good Will Hunting, Will gets into and altercation with a group of men on a basketball court. Will and his group of friends drive by the basketball court when they see another group of men cat calling a woman. When the woman passes without responding to the group of men, they throw a bottle at her and begin to call her profane names. When Will sees this, he steps out of the vehicle and punches the first man to step up to him. This causes a huge fight to lash out amongst Will, his friends, and this group of men. When the cops arrive to break up the altercation, the group of men flee and will was not able to get away in time, allowing him to be implicated for the crime. This can be seen as an act of deviance by many societies. In many cultures today, fighting is view as a wrong act and is frowned upon. They frown upon fighting due to the belief that there is always a better solution. While this is view as an act of deviance and fighting is not the answer or a solution to the problem, some might also view his heroism as an act of valor. Some might deem the act of standing up for someone that cannot defend themselves in a situation as noble and kind. Deviance is a tricky subject

His presenting self was the safeguard to his private self. Will was very much aware of his gift and his enormous potential but shunned it like some burden, or at least that's what he wanted others to believe. He often told Sean Maguire, his shrink with whom he had developed a bond, that his gift was something he didn't ask for, and he'd be perfectly fine working an honorable blue-collar job with his buddies. Despite his assertion regarding his gift as an aggravation Will's actions contradict, for he is asked why he just so happened to get a custodial job in the world's foremost institute for technology, M.I.T if he wanted nothing to do with his genius. Maguire sees behind Will's visage, he realizes Will is a wounded soul who really knows nothing about life for he hasn't experienced it, it is so much more that what he read in a book. It is hard to say what Will should have done for he had a difficult past one that most cannot relate too, or have any idea what it may be like to live it. However, If Will had been a little more open to the people who wanted to love him he would have been much happier. In his quest to never be hurt he was headed for a life where he would never be loved. His thoughts were becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy; where one's expectations of an event make that event more likely to occur (Adler, 65). Had Will been honest with himself and more willing

Will's surroundings, including the situation he is in, people he is surrounded by and physical surroundings , influence his morals, thoughts, and actions. Before Will is summoned back to his mother's house, he has been nurtured into a strong and healthy young boy during his time in Little Weirwold. On his arrival, however, he is placed in a deplorable environment , beaten by his mother and pushed to care for an abused baby. Magorian, using strong language combined with imagery, describes Willie's repulsive conditions with vivid detail, using phrases such as 'a thin emaciated boy,' 'he (Will) sat in his own excrement' and 'the small alcove stank of urine and vomit'. We are shown this time spent in poor surroundings impacts his identity when he comes back to Little Weirworld and he's described to have nightmares involving the trauma and has had a negative change in identity, going back to wetting the bed, "... His (Willie's) soaking body." His legs are also weakened and he is shown to be then and helpless, "Will pushed his legs over to the side of the bed and stop up with a wobble simply to sit down suddenly again." This shows us that the negative effect of staying in such poor condition weakened him and changed his identity to be a weak shred of his former self. However, soon after being reintroduced to the homely and

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.

Though Will was really abusive and disrespectful towards Sean and Will but he tries to understand Will’s mental state and calls him up for the next sessions. Sean knew that Will won’t open himself too fast and he will need to get rid of his agitation in order to accept his past. Overall Sean’s character is built very intelligently; it tells us that Sean has seen a lot in life especially after he lost his wife. We also come to know that Sean is not a fun loving person and is serious about life issues. As in the next session he talks to Will about deeper things of life and how each and every one of us needs someone. The next two sessions were silent ones and both kept on siting without having a word with each other. In the next set of talks they both feel comfortable; Will starts by asking questions to Sean about his past and Sean tells him that once he left baseball world cup match to meet his future wife. Will gets really excited and tells him that how could you miss such an important game. The relationship between Sean and Will began to develop and they become more like friends of each other. This story of Sean’s past encourages Will to build up his relationship with his girlfriend Skylar as he knew that she was the one meant for him. Once again tension breaks down between Sean and Will. Will challenges Sean to look at his own life, since

Will uses anger, denial, and sarcasm as defense mechanisms to push people away from him. He told people that he did not have a problem and that they were the ones with the problem. He used

Throughout one’s life, people experience meaningful moments that contribute to the personalities and relationships they develop overtime. Some moments are positive where they continue to reproduce resiliently strong children and other moments are negatively impactful where they render attachment issues. In the film, Good Will Hunting, Will displays behaviors congruent with insecure attachment issues and he struggles to build relationships. This paper utilizes other attachment theory-based sources to compare to Will’s actions. The attachment theory is used to examine the behaviors Will displays by considering his childhood and his current life status.

414) The cause or etiology of his behavior is from his childhood life and he goes about life holding a grudge and anger towards everyone that hurt him in his past. He’s so afraid of being abandoned that he leaves people before they can leave him and finds joy in making others feel inferior to him. The last fight he got into almost landed him in jail until Professor Gerald discovered his true potential on becoming one of the world’s greatest mathematicians; however, the judge also wants Will to see a therapist every week until the next court hearing. The first five therapists that Will met with, he treated them like the treats the people he meets; displays an arrogant attitude and takes them as a joke. He then finally meets a new therapist Sean, who on the first day displays that he’s not going to take crap from Will and that he’s not scared of him. The perspective that the therapy sessions followed were from a cognitive perspective (Wood & Wood, 2013, p. 396) because of his false perceptions of the people around him; he believed everyone was out to get him in a sense and so he has to hurt them before they can do it to him. Sean’s

Good Will Hunting tells the story of a young troublemaker from South Boston with a genius level intelligence and troublesome past. Raised as an orphan passed around through abusive foster homes, now at 20 years old, Will Hunting spends most of his days working dead-end jobs when he’s not out drinking and fighting with his degenerate friend group. While sweeping the floors as a janitor at MIT, Will anonymously completes an equation left on a chalkboard so advanced, that even esteemed mathematics Professor Lambeau did not expect any MIT graduate students to be able to solve. In his search for the mystery savant, Professor Lambeau eventually finds Will in the courtroom where he is being arraigned for assaulting a police officer. Pleading with

Good Will Hunting is an interesting story of a young genius orphan growing in a slums of South Boston with a group of best friends, written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and directed by Gus Van Sant. In this film, Will Hunting is the main character played by its father Matt Damon who is trying to himself identify his value in the world. He is not a normal teenager, he has a special ability that called the “photographic memory” so that he could remember and solve academic problems in a really quickly way. This film also tells us the journey of Willy as he is required to experience psychotherapy by Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) unless he wants to serve the jail time due to his assault to a police officer. After several attempts for such treatment, all psychologists give up talking with him because of his stubborn characteristic until he meets Sean Maguire played by Robin Williams. Sean is the only person who is able to guide Willy on the way to finding himself and recognizing what is the most important to him in his own life. The writers and director collaborate very well in conveying the message to watchers through the storyline and some special relationships in it. There are two noticed relationships in Good Will Hunting which are between teacher and student and between man and woman.

All of the loss in the world seemed to dissipate for a short amount of time. All Will could think about or talk about was the exciting day ahead of them, but he worries that his father will not bother to make time for him. The worlds promise was straight in front of his eyes, and all of the tragedy and sadness was behind him until a large shake occurred and the 5 floors below became smoke-filled. Early on Will had to grow up to realize the amount of responsibility and survival that truly was needed to survive. It was evident that Will actually grew up when he volunteered to relieve his Dad and help carry the injured women down the stairs after they escaped from the

Will felt overwhelmed when the professor tried to help him find a job. He feels that because of his talent, they will use that to their advantages and will treat him like he is just a subject and not a human being. He knows that he can easily do the professor’s job, but he rather work constructions instead of explaining math to people like professor Lambeau. Will lacks empathy in so many ways. Because of his ego and fear, he does not feel that he needs help from anybody. The only person he listens to is his best friend Chuckie. Sean sees his lack of communication and tries to breakthrough by using different techniques

In Good Will Hunting, Will had been abused by his dad in his childhood. For the reason, he seems like he has an antagonism towards the men nearing his dad’s age. To give an example, the people, whom Will makes troubles with, are mostly middle-aged men. In addition, the relationship between Will and Skylar, whom Will falls in love with, is pathetic. Will tries to keep hiding the fact that he is an orphan because he fears that Skylar will leave when she knows the truth. For the reason, Will lies to Skylar that he has 12 brothers to pretend he grew up in a peaceful family. On the other hand, Skylar wants Will to tell the truth about him, but she gets hurt from Will who refuses to tell the

Throughout the movie, Good Will Hunting, the audience is presented with three situations or journey archetypes that are paramount to the audience understanding the many facets of Will Hunting’s personality. An archetypal situation or journey is a situation that follows the patterns found in human nature and the universe. When used in stories, there are often many situation or journey archetypes employed in order to make a point. The journeys and situation featured in Good Will Hunting are the quest for identity, innate wisdom versus educated stupidity and the fall. The quest for identity is an overarching journey throughout the entire movie during which, Will finds out who he really is, allowing the

Due to these experiences he is able to teach Will many valuable lessons about life and love, and has a greater impact on Will that any one else could. He teaches Will that love is not always a fairytale and that no two people are perfect, “but the question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.” Sean opens up to Will and tells him about his past and some personal aspects of his life. This acts shows intelligence on Sean's behalf as it makes Will feel trusted and therefore loved, it also encourages Will to open up to him, which makes it possible for Sean to help him. One of Sean’s finest qualities is his selflessness. Unlike Professor Lambeau he is not helping Will for his own advantage, he actually cares about his welfare and emotions, he realises that he is in a fragile state and knows that he can’t be pushed into anything he doesn’t want to do, as it would result poorly for Will. He respects Will’s interests, whilst Professor Lambeau