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I chose Good Will Hunting. This movie shown about will hunting is a tough by a
brilliant young man from a working-class neighborhood whose life revolves around low-skilled
jobs, hanging out with friends, fighting, arrests for minor crime, and secretly, reading everything
he can get his hand on. He suffers from a mild form of attachment disorder caused by abuse
when he was a foster child. His intelligence is exceptional, and he can easily solve problems of
higher mathematics that elude famous math professors. The movies present wills changes as he
is discovered solving a math problem presented to the best math students at a prestigious
university, forced into counseling as a condition of probation, and finds a girl whom he loves.
There are four main characters portrayed in this film. Three of the characters are the basic
components to the plot of the movies, but the fourth is essential to the reality to the movie and
The first character is professor Lambreau, an instructor at the college that will and
trying to find relevance in his own career discovering this talented young man. Throughout the
movie he pushes to have will integrated into academia and associated circle that he is involved
with. He does in fact help. In my opinion that it is only to assist in his own credibility and
notoriety. The professors character is very self-centered and even when helping someone else he
Sean is the next character that I will evaluate. He is a longtime friend of professor
Lambreau from college days spent together as roommate. Sean is a psychologist that is teaching
at a Boston community college and is brought into the plot as a condition of wills court ordered
probation set up through the court system with the assistance of Dr. Lambreau. It is noted in the
movie that Sean is considered very smart, but his peers may think that he has done nothing with
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his abilities. He ends up being a therapist for will to meet the terms of the courts probation
conditions. In this movie to understand, Sean is a portrayal of that teacher that is, all-in, the well
-being of the student or child is first, even when and if it hurts him emotionally or physically.
This is what I believe all teacher or instructors should strive to achieve in their career. He is able
to relate to and help will sue to their geographical upbringing and knowing the environment in
which they were both raised in. this had a direct bearing on the possibility that will did not have
to be what everyone that he grew up with was. Without this therapy and friendship neither
character would have moved on with their life, and would have accepted what other perceived
them as. Chuckie is wills childhood best friend and is wills safety. He and the other two friends
are very loyal and dedicated to will and accept him for whatever he wants to be in life. Some
may interpret them as enabling will in being complacent in his life, but as the movie unfolds we
find this to be completely untrue. Chuckie does tell that he does not owe the use of his ability to
himself but to Chuckie and his other friends. He states the best part of his day is from the corner
to wills house and wanting to knock on the door to find that will is gone, to a better life (Sant,
1997). This shows the depth of their friendship and just how smart Chuckie really is, and also
lets will know that it is okay to move forward in his own life. this character is crucial to the
The final character is the main none, Will. Will is an extraordinarily gift individual in the
area of mathematise. No formal learning was instilled in him and his upbringing and
environment should have destroyed any ambition to further an education. His giftedness was
obviously missed as a youth and he was a delinquent throughout his child hood. This could be
due to the lack of resources in a low socioeconomic area and advantages that affluent families
have (Daniel, 2015). Will dis know, however, that he was gifted in a way that other people are
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not. This would explain the janitor job at the college, and solving the equations in the math halt
way. He was performing a job that was acceptable to his friends but nourishing a need to use his
ability without anyone else knowing. Wills definitely has a behavioral issue with impulse
control and acceptance. Wills fits into the description of someone with emotional or behavioral
disorder as described in our book (Daniel, 2015). In speculating, will is a true success story in the
aspect that all indicators were missed in his childhood and his environment should have led him
This is an incredible movie and evokes profound thought for me. The major feeling that I
get from this movie is the question of how many fallen or not been identified. We cannot explain
how people have these talents or why they have them, but they do. How many have been
impression that this movie will leave on me. It will help to keep me focused on not judging or
classifying into general categories and trying to find the solution that works for the individual,
and not just what works for the majority of the class. This movie has taught me that the one may
devastating to not only the child but a larger number that they could influence and help in the
same situation.
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