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Good Will Hunting

Eh Na

Ivy Tech Community College

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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

making it one of believability.

The first character is professor Lambreau, an instructor at the college that will and

movies main character worked at as a janitor. The professor is a person of entitlement. He is

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

seeks his own justification for acceptance of what he has done.

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

movie though not as involved in the total plot.

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

to a continued life of trouble and struggle.

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

improperly judged or diagnosed as behavioral or emotional problems.? This is the lasting

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

be a mind of a generation and for me to dismiss it as some behavioral problems could be

devastating to not only the child but a larger number that they could influence and help in the

same situation.
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Reference

Daniel P. Hallahan, J. M. (2015). Exceptional learners. An introduction to special education.

New Jersey.

Sant, G. V. (Director). (1997). Good Will Hunting. Retrieved from

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/goodwillhunting.html.