In the movie Good Will Hunting, the main character Will Hunting is a very intriguing young man. From the very beginning of the movie, the viewers can see that he is very far from ‘normal.’ Will works at MIT, a very prestigious technical college, as a custodian. However, when classes are not in session Will finds enjoyment in solving the math problems that none of the actual students could in their wildest dreams. It is evident that Will is close to a genius, and it makes one wonder why he is a custodian when he could be so much more. However, as the movie progresses, a few inner problems come into light.
He then gets arrested for assaulting the policeman and his father lectures him when he picks his son up. Christopher does detective work and explains how he finds it confusing when people tell h 3. Christopher wants to prove to everyone that he is far from stupid by taking the A levels math and achieving an A, in which is something extraordinary that no one in his school has done. Therefor he thinks that the other students are stupid. This is important because it shows his ambition to so to a University and get a high paying job.
The character that I am diagnosing is the main character, Will Hunting. Will Hunting is a 20-year old janitor from South Boston. He had a rough childhood because of his abusive parents. He finds solitude by hanging out with his friends and drinking after his unfulfilling job is over for the day. Despite Will’s demeanor, he has an unbelievable intellect that allows him to skate by most of the time.
The movie Good Will Hunting is a movie about a young man name Will (Matt Damon) who plays the roll of a gifted individual who has always struggled with his troubling past. The struggles he faced when he was younger affects his life as he gets older, which leads him to get into trouble with the law. Despite Will being labeled as a genius, he has extreme issues that he needs to cope with. This introduces a skilled and experienced therapist named Sean Maguire (Robin Williams, who helps Will straighten out his life. The movie Good Will Hunting is based in Boston, and in the beginning of the movie the audience quickly understands that Will has a knack for getting into trouble.
“So how do you feel Will?” Attachment Theory Applied to "Good Will Hunting” Good Will Hunting (Damon, Affleck & Van Sant, 1997) is the story of an intelligent young man named Will hunting, who has a remarkable gift in mathematics, but he shows symptoms of attachment disorder because of his past (played by Matt Damon). He was abused as a child, and has trouble developing meaningful relationships with people because of the lack of trust he experienced then. The only people he lets in are a bunch of guys he grew up with (Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Cole Hauser) who in no way understand his intelligence or his disorder. He has trouble managing his emotions, which usually ends up with him verbally or physically hurting others. Will's anger is one of many defenses that mask his inner feelings and guard his inner self.
His character is strong, devoted and passionate, and idealistic. He was able to help his students succeed and pass the advance placement test for calculus something that no other teacher could do. The conflict of the film is that Mr. Escalante wants the students to succeed in life. No one really bothered teaching the students math because they wouldn’t take teachers seriously until Mr. Escalante came and never gave up on them. He changed his computer job and changed to being a math teacher to help the students.
John Nash is a character in the movie “A Beautiful Mind” who can be described as an awkward man, unsociable, a hermit who never leaves his room; yet, he is a mathematician genius who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He is extremely talented, haughty, egotistic and only has one true friend his roommate Charles. Nash is very stubborn and does not care about other people’s theories because he believes his are the only ones that matter. In fact he skips classes because he claims that it will dull his mind. He is a hard worker who dedicates all his time to solving math problems and theories like the Game Theory.
Ashequlla Qudratulla World Literature I Anival S Gonzalez JR 2/16/13 Medea School Version With a chemistry lab partner like Jason I had in Northwest Vista, I felt like I was unstoppable. We always had fun doing the labs, mixed random chemicals to get cool colors mixed up with bubbles, but one day he decided to leave me as his lab partner for Glauce for better grades on his labs. I was so angry with the actions of Jason for leaving me as his lab partner for someone else, we had two uncompleted labs we never got to finish that I had do it myself now. I got so angry doing the labs myself while Jason had fun with his new lab partner Glauce, I had to get even to what he did to me. People in class told me to let it go and move on but I felt
Pi – Darren Aronofsky In the movie Pi by Darren Aronofsky, the viewer observes the tale of a middle-aged genius mathematician who slowly loses his mind by devoting and concentrating all of his energy and time into the pursuit of a mythical number which is believed to be the most important number in all existence; this number would allow him to predict the future of the stock market, or even find the true name of God. The main character, Maximillian, has been obsessed with numbers since he was a young child after an accident in which he stared at the sun for too long; since then, he has believed that “mathematics is the language of nature,” and that “everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers”. Max has effectively shut out everything in his life by only focusing on the mathematical, quantitative parts of life while ignoring the beauty and simplicity of nature around him. As the story progresses, he learns of the existence of a number which holds a power that is too great for anyone to know of; naturally, he begins putting all his time into discovering what this number may be. The search for the number takes a huge toll on his well-being, as he begins to suffer from hallucinations and excruciating headaches; eventually the pain begins so overwhelming that he convinces himself to perform brain surgery on his own head – he drills into his own brain, effectively lobotomizing himself.
As we know, Harry Potter realizes his is a wizard on his eleventh birthday in the Sorcerer’s Stone. Up until that point he has lived and gone to school with Muggles and while he despises the Dursley’s and has no friends, he certainly identifies with his family and classmates even though he is usually on the edge of the group. According to Volkan, “a child has only traits of ethnicity or nationality until he goes through adolescence; these traits may be strongly felt in childhood, but they do not comprise a full blown view of the other group as a common enemy in the social and political sense” (86). Harry, in fact, later identifies the same group that he longed to be a part of as the ‘enemy’ but he also had no strong ties to the group and therefore was very willing to shed these traits in order to fit into a new group. Harry is placed in a family as he enters Hogwarts and in this peer group he identifies with a different sense of ethnicity that has a firmer and larger effect on his interaction with his environment (Volkan, 86).