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For our research paper we chose to analyze the main character in Good Will Hunting. The character, Will Hunting, portrayed by Matt Damon is a young man who is working as a janitor at the notorious MIT. The movie displays several times that Will faced a lot of troubles in his youth, and these experiences shaped his adult personality and attitude towards life. The movie gives evidence that Will suffers from quite a few psychological disorders, however the film focuses on one in particular that we concluded

Good Will Hunting, produced by Gus Van Sant, was released in 1997. In the movie, Will Hunting is a genius who can memorize everything that he reads and solve the theories that no one can solve. Although he has a genius level IQ, Will rather chooses to work as a janitor at MIT and hang out with his childhood friends from Southie. One day, Gerald Lambeau, math professor at MIT, puts his math theories on a board on the hallway. Few days later, he realizes that Will, a janitor, not his students, is the

The main character of this film was Will Hunting, a young man from South Boston who grew up in the foster system and was portrayed to be of low social-economic-status. Regardless of Hunting’s background he was remarkably intelligent, he explained it as similar to the way Beethoven could naturally plan a piano. There was never and official diagnosis given for Hunting’s condition but there were symptoms that pointed towards anxiety and borderline personality disorder. The most distinct symptom I noticed

The movie Good Will Hunting exploits many points of psychology in the character Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT who has a knack for math. Some of the points of psychology include how a character develops after a lot of child abuse during his childhood. It exploits the idea that a child who becomes secluded may never allow an attachment, or when an attachment finally starts to occur, pushes them away. It also exploits the idea that Will Hunting has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Because of

Trevor Burkhead Professor Nyfeler EN 211 22 February 2017 Analytical Essay on the Movie “Good Will Hunting” I have watched a considerable number of movies this semester so it was hard to choose which one to analyze. It came down to “Remember the Titans” or “Good Will Hunting”. However, the movie that I will be analyzing is “Good Will Hunting”. The reason I chose this movie is that it can be analyzed in many different ways. I will be analyzing different scenes of the movie and analyze them from

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

Have you ever known someone that went through such a rough childhood that it filtered into and influenced all the years after that? I personally have never gone through such a hard childhood that it drastically impacted my life. The movie that I chose to write about is called Good Will Hunting and it follows a genius, Matt Damon, in math that had such a horrible childhood that he settled for mediocre jobs that held honor in them and chooses not to use his full potential to his advantage; he grew

Good Will Hunting is a movie about a man named Will Hunting who seems to be a normal man but really has an extraordinary gift. It is discovered early on that Will has the ability to solve math problems that even the most brilliant people cannot solve. However, even with all of this talent he covers it up by pretending to be average and getting himself in trouble with the law. But he can not help but using his gift because in secret he begins solving impossible problems at the college he is a janitor

Good Will Hunting, a movie based about a young adult by the name of Will Hunting. Will is a mathematician yet he does not use it to its potential. Instead, Will likes to go out with his friends and mess around. One day he gets arrested for the charges of assaulting a police man. While waiting to serve time, Professor Lambeau of M.I.T came to release him if only he cooperates with his term, which is to visit his office to demonstrate his math skills and he would have to see a therapist. After several

Analysis of Good Will Hunting The adult relationship that I decided to write my paper on is the relationship between Will Hunting and Sean Maguire. This is the institutional relationship between doctor and patient and how connected and eventually they each helped each other achieve their feelings and needs which enables them to get on a path of happiness and self-exploration. Will Hunting is a twenty year old punk, who is also a genius, was raised in the system and grew up with an abusive foster