Good Will Hunting

Abstract

Good Will Hunting is a movie about an abused orphan who has grown up to be just a normal janitor at a prestigious college, but there is more to Will Hunting than meets the eye. Will is a mathematical genius that has not been discovered and due to his abusive past he has a short temper and anger issues that cause him to get in trouble with the law. In his punishment from the judge he is required to meet with psychologists once a week and in those meetings they find out there is a much more to Will than anyone expected. Underneath all the pain and abuse that Will has gone through, there is a normal guy with a special talent.

Will Hunting is just a normal guy, so it seems. He lives in South Boston and has his circle of friends, three friends to be exact, and goes to work every day, just like anyone else. He tends to have some anger issues and that causes him to get into fights. Will works at a prestigious college, as a janitor, and after hours when everyone has left he goes into the classrooms and finishes the mathematical equations that are left on the board. No one at the school knows that he is the one that is finishing the equations, so it remains a mystery. Will is a hidden genius that will not use his mathematical genius because of his dark past. Will was an orphan growing up and his foster parents, or the people that he stayed with abused him. They did awful things to him, like burning him with cigarettes. This, of course, ruined him as a child and he never learned how to let go of the terrible things that happened to him as a child.

Due to his past he has anger issues and his fights led him to get into trouble with the law. He got sentenced to classes with a professor from the school he works at to help with his anger. This professor soon learns about Will's mathematical genius and also learns that Will is not the easiest person to talk to. The professor then takes matters into his own hands and calls his old roommate from college, who is a profound psychologist, to work with Will. The professor wants Will to work at the college, because he is better than the professor, but Will does not want to stray away from his normal life, with his only friends. The psychologist meets with Will once a week and soon learns that there is a much deeper story behind Will. After weeks of interrogations and meetings Will finally breaks down and talks to the psychologist. That is the most moving part of the movie. There is an important