Good Will Hunting Essay

Sometimes our past can cause pain that doesnt allow us to trust others. People we trust can cause us to put up a wall and look to other things for comfort. In the movie, leave Hunting found his comfort in books. for demoralize Hunting needed a real friendship to help him open up his learning ability in order to discover that there is more to sustenance than living through the books he reads. In the movie, there are four main characters, each(prenominal) different in many ways, that form individual friendships in the movie. One of the characters, Will Hunting works as a janitor at a momma Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a foster child and is living life through his experience in books and lacks real life knowledge. This is holding him sticker from becoming intimate with anyone. While working there he sometimes writes on the schools math department blackboard and is concisely ascertained as a genius. Will gets caught fighting and is arrested and in leau of incarceration is put under the supervision of Gerald Lambeau, who attended and is now a professor at MIT. under(a) his supervision, per court order he must see a therapist and stay out of any trouble. Sean Maguire is a professor at a topical anaesthetic community college and also grew up in the same town as Will and went to MIT.He is Wills therapist and in the sessions challenges him to open up and stop living life through a book. A friendship develops and Sean tries to guide him to break his fear of intimacy. Chuckie Sullivan is a character in the movie that Will refers to as his brother. Chuckie is a nice guy with an aggressive attitude from being brought up in the rough side of Southie, Boston. Then there is a young woman named Skylar, cute with a British accent and goes to Harvard University. She gets involved with Will Hunting and soon asks him to move with her to California where she will be attending at Stanfords medical school program. Unfortunately, fear of intimacy prevents him from fo rming a relationship with her and breaks this friendship apart. Eventually, Will starts to see his true friendships with Chuckie, Sean and Skylar and starts to open up.He begins to trust others and expects a risk of exposure at experiencing life first hand outside the covers of a book. Will Hunting came from poverty, raised as a foster child in Southie. He didnt trust people because he always looked at every angle of the relationship and assumed that in the end they wouldnt be there for him. Professor Gerald Lambeau, who took pride in himself because of a Field Medals award which granted him public status, comes around to try to build a friendship with Will. Will soon realizes that Gerald is using him to get through social status, public recognition and to solve his difficult math problems. He then ends his relationship with Gerald because of his intensions. Then Sean, seeing what his former classmate, Gerald, was up to, soon becomes more than moreover Wills therapist. Sean beco mes a friend and tries to prevent Will from taking the same path as Gerald by except wanting social recognition.As Wills Friend, Sean didnt want him to fail. He wanted Will to succeed in life and take a chance and not just live it through a book. The doctor-patient relationship soon becomes a very close friendship. Towards the end of the movie Will leaves a note for Sean, I had to see about a girl, this was a quote from Seans story of his courtship with his wife. This lets Sean know he had decided to take a chance on life and to attempt to form a lasting relationship with someone he could trust. Wills brother Chuckie, who is really Wills best friend, also wanted him to succeed in life. He tries to encourage Will to take a chance in living a real life and tells Will, You know what the best part of my day is? Its for about ten seconds when I pull up to the curb to when I get to your door.Because I think maybe Ill get up there and Ill knock on the door and you wont be there. No goodby e, no see you later, no nothing. Just left. I dont know much, but I know that. Will then sees that Chuckie might save a point and takes his friends advice. A few people come into Wills life, some for real friendships and some just to gain public status. After discovering his true friendships, Will begins to enjoy their company and wants them in his life. He begins to build relationships he can count on. He is willing to take a chance and succeed in life and relationships, no longer needing books to fulfill this for him. He finally decides to trust and to look at the positive things life has to offer. On his 21st birthday, with the car, Chuckie and his other friends gave him, he packs up to head to California to pursue life. In the end, Will finds true friendships and decides to live his life outside of just a book.