"Good Will Hunting" - 156

"Good Will Hunting" is a 1998 Oscar Award-winning drama film written by Ben Affleck & Matt Damon and directed by visionary Gus Van Sant. It stars Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, and many more in this film about a guy who is a genius in academics but has little direction in life due to the trauma he went through when he was a foster kid growing up. He meets someone who matches not his intellect but his energy. Will Hunting is the guy and Skylar is the woman. He also meets with Robin William's character named "Sean" who is a psychologist and they work together to sort of figure out his life or else he goes to prison for years after assaulting a police officer. The film is filled with lessons about life, adolescence, love, and growing up. A lot of quotables and iconic scenes that we still talk about to this day. I love the film for Van Sant's vision of displaying relationships of not only men and but men and women. This story is simple but layered due to how all these people communicate and their perspectives of life. Everyone seems to own but not Will. Will has a gift and is afraid to do something with it. We see the story line explain that concept of failure or not amounting to anything. We all have people in our lives that help shape us but it's really up to ourselves to prevail even if we know will fail. I dig the film for the dialog written by both Affleck and Damon, these characters pop with life and their own type of wisdom. It's not so much of a rom-com that story line does work with the growth of Will Hunting. He is loved by his peers, but to be loved and cared about from a stranger is as strange and we see what it does to us when we have been through it, when we have been denied that by the very people who were suppose to do that off general principle. Van Sant is a master of handling stories that have to do with growing up and not only does he show us the characters that embrace the screen but he also uses the shots of the environment as well as a character.

Four out of four tokes