Hiryu's American Movie Café : Movie Review of "Good Will Hunting"

I would like to introduce Good Will Hunting. Good Will Hunting is an American movie released in 1997. This movie is a human drama depicting the interaction between a gifted young man with a genius who cannot escape the trauma he received in his childhood and a psychologist who cannot heal his grief after losing his beloved wife. The main character is Will Hunting played by Matt Demon and Dr. Sean Maguire played by Robin Williams. The script was written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Matt Damon started writing the script for the movie while at Harvard University as an assignment for a screen writing class and finished it with Ben Affleck who played the role of Chuckie. This movie grossed over ＄260 million at the box office, It was nominated for nine awards at the 70nd Academy Awards and won in two categories.

One day Professor Rambo gave his students a difficult math problem.

But no one can solve it. While everyone was worried, there was a person who solved it easily. It was Will, a part-time janitor, not a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student. Professor Rambo looked for Will. However, Will was in custody at the time for punching a person. He's a math genius, but he distrusts humans because of his childhood abuse. Professor Rambo wants to rehabilitate him so that his math talents can flourish, but he hasn't opened up his heart. Therefore, Professor Rambo goes to his friend Sean, who teaches psychology at the university, and asks him to rehabilitate Will.

Good Will Hunting is a touching story. After watching the movie, I thought Will was really lucky to have met Sean, because it changed Will's lonely life. Sean doesn't do anything special. He listened to Will, laughed with him, sometimes got angry, and talked about himself. That’s all. I thought that it was not money or fame that moved people's hearts, but rather empathy. It's a wonderful movie that makes you feel the warmth of people, so please take a look.