Good Will Hunting, 1997 [* * * * * *]

This movie is too close to my heart to see clearly. It touched me with sadness.

If there was ever a movie made about the struggles of matching talent with education - it must be this one. Some getting educated because they have money, others scorning education even if they're touched by genius. And everyone thinks everyone else is fucking up by not recognising emotional choice as the litmus for growth.

Will Hunting is a genius (like India's Ramanujan), a rebellious, angry, young man working as a janitor in MIT when he isn't cruising bars.

He's caught at finishing complex math that only 2% of mathematicians can do. The professor who tries to get him reach his potential can't motivate his protege. But a psychologist, Robin Williams (who's still mourning the loss of his wife), sparks a desire in him to start a relationship with Skylar, a med student. As it would happen with this kind of dork, he doesn't want to get started "because she's too perfect, why find out that she's not" (so Robin Williams points out that he's perfect too at this point, so maybe he doesn't want to find out that he's not so perfect either;).

Then it's only about fun and sex for him, so he's lying and manipulating and feeling king. But his house of cards collapses when she wants him to move with her. He panics and screws it up with a tantrum. Then screws up some more, because he again loses meaning, by quitting his work with the professor. In the end he goes after her to regain paradise lost (but then it's just a movie, right? Can you see a real-life god's-gift-to-women going back to clear anything up?;).

I fell in love with a guy like this and it's not funny how men fear real relationship and reduce it all to meaninglessness. Their egos make them robotic, nothing else. At least grow into a Wall-E, moron, it would be an advanced life-form compared to where you are. (Also, I hope you meet with a psyc like Robin who can break through your monumental ego and emo blocks. <-- that's just in case he's reading this.:). The creativity of Life is about making meaning. And you can only do that relating w.r.t. (with respect to) other living beings. lol, the movie pushed a bunch of buttons for me.

See it, folks! Written by Matt Damon (a Harvard dropout) and Ben Afleck. Got them an Oscar. The girl was modelled on Matt's ex-gf, Skylar Satenstein, who later married Metallica's brilliant Lars Ulrich.