Good Will Hunting Movie Analysis
The plot of Good Will Hunting is described as, Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life. But there is so much more to this story. The character Will Hunting very early on has very apparent psychological issues and behavioral issues. I will also go over some of the things that I noticed as well in his Psychologist that was obvious that he had some issues he was dealing with as well. Some of the main psychological and behavioral diagnoses in this review paper that I will be going over are: Traumatic Stress Disorders, possible emotional detachment, Inferiority complex, and mood disorders. Another big thing that I noticed were Will Hunting’s extreme defense mechanisms and how knowingly far he would go to mentally attack some just to keep the attention off his own personal problems and feelings. I believe this movie is very well written and shows a very plausible and highly possible result of how someone can turn out, if their problems are not addressed and fixed, based on things that they have experienced and had to deal with early on in their…show more content…
Adler argued that children who were severely neglected by their parents could develop what is called an inferiority complex (“Introduction to Psychology” 568). An inferiority complex is described as “a psychological state in which people feel that they are not living up to expectations, leading them to have low self-esteem, with a tendency to try to overcompensate for the negative feelings (“Introduction to Psychology” 568).” Basically, this means a person with a inferiority complex will do whatever it takes just to show or prove they are superior in any situation no matter the consequences. I think that because of constantly being neglected and abused as well as always being the conformant he later developed this inferiority complex. This is directly applicable as to why he would make such a rash decision to hop out of the car and fight this man who he believed used to have dominance over him and he unconsciously felt he needed to assert his own dominance. Another instance of when he displays his inferiority complex is later in the movie he and his friends are out at a bar. Mind you, a bar where man of the MIT students hang out, and Will’s friends are stereotypical adults who grew up in the slums. Will’s friend Chuckie is talking to a girl in the bar named Skyla, a pre-med student at
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Good Will Hunting - Official Trailer (HD) The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student, he's the kid who cleans the floors. Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. Good Will Hunting is an excellent movie that falls short of the upper crust because it was maybe not daring enough. When you re-watch the movie, at least for me, I am struck how I stopped focusing. In a lot of ways, Good Will Hunting is the Rosetta stone for our understanding of modern Hollywood in the late 20th/early 21st century. It skyrocketed fledgling actors and screenwriters Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to superstardom, and landed Robin Williams his long-deserved Academy Award; it was a box office hit, banking over $225 million on a $10 million budget; and it further cemented the. Good Will Hunting full movie, onlineWatch full HD: 1080P.!!! 4K UHD 1080P-HD 720P HD MKV MP4 FLV DVD Copyright Discl.