I enjoy clever folks like the lead in this film. Though he never went to a university of higher learning he demonstrated genius level math skills. Matt Damon stars and wrote this great flick. He and his buddy Ben Affleck garnered an Oscar for the touching script.
An angry young man works as a janitor at a university where a professor puts a difficult math problem on a blackboard. Will Hunting sees it and solves it. The professor chases him off and is about to erase his writing until he realizes he wrote out the correct answer.
He offers to teach the kid how to use his talents, but first, he needs to find a way for him to deal with his anger. Along comes ramshackle therapy guy Robin Williams. The interaction between the curmudgeon and his young client show the value of a little self awareness.
Hunting falls for a pretty medical student brought charmingly to screen by Minnie Driver. These young men, Damon and Affleck show an amazing grasp of complex relationships. They keenly light up the deep joys and sorrows life brings to us all. The math professor and his therapist buddy lived a history not unlike Hunting and his best friend live.
They explore brilliance of the mind on the level of mathematics, but also on emotional awareness. We aren't even aware they're teaching us to live our own life, rather than follow a path dictated to us by others.
Watch this film. Savor it's nuances. Look in North Bend for the DVD and Bandon, Dora and Powers for the VHS.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119217/
Buy this DVD from Amazon: Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
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