Description
Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he secretly solves highly difficult graduate-level math problems, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he gets court-ordered therapy. Eventually, therapist Dr. Sean Maguire helps Will confront the demons that are holding him back.
The original script. This film has earned all the awards it has received. I will review it)))
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It was interesting for me to test my personal theory that Robin Williams is my least favorite actor. "Dead Poets Society", "Where Dreams Lead". And now "Clever Will Hunting." In each of these three films, the actor plays the same role – an annoying pseudo-philosopher, talking about life and the sublime. And the films themselves look like triplets.
The philosophy of these films, in my opinion, does not pass the test of time. It looks corny, controversial and frankly outdated.
Well, for example, take this same movie. Will Hunting. A ghetto kid who became smarter than the professors themselves, simply because he read books. An important remark: according to the plot, he was not born gifted, but became smart thanks to reading books. He's 20, and he's already fumbling for all the sciences! Do you know why? Because it used to be believed that books = guaranteed intelligence. Naively simple times, when people who read were elevated to gods. Now every second person reads, and this is nothing special and elitist.
And books are just one of many examples that work only in theory, but not in practice.
And the fact that Robin Williams did the same thing to himself only proves it. Although it would seem that he played such life-affirming roles! About the importance and value of life! And I did this to myself... How is it? Answer: because all this pseudo-philosophy and pseudo-psychology does not work in reality.
Well, at least Will Hunting is just naive and harmless. The same cannot be said about the same Poets who promote rather radical and pernicious views on life...
I really wonder who would like such films. Maybe for fans of wolf quotes from VK or fans of Paulo Coelho. I don't condemn the people of the last century who grew up watching these films. Back then, times were simpler, and the thoughts embedded in these films did not look so cringeworthy and banal. But now all these moral teachings are very controversial and contradictory
Everyone's tastes are different, and they change over the years, that's a fact.
I will stand up for reading like a man from the last century. Books may not be so popular now, but they certainly broaden your horizons and develop your intelligence. When a person reads, he needs to interpret symbols in the form of letters into words, understand these words, reformat them as images and upload them to the brain.
When a person watches a movie, he gets a ready-made picture that goes directly to the brain, causes some feelings and often does not stay there.
People who read a lot are more likely to write and speak more competently, and their brains are trained and more developed.
And this is also a fact. So books really = guaranteed intelligence (despite the fact that books are good, of course. And there are rudiments of intelligence initially)
I can't call myself a fan of Robin Williams, but he won an Oscar for his role in this film. And in those years, this award was still given quite deservedly, without being guided by various political and public agendas such as blm or LGBT.
As for the actor's suicide, as far as I know, he was diagnosed with a very unpleasant diagnosis and chose to die without suffering. Plus, he was diagnosed with depression. In such a state, a person feels very bad and it is not for us to condemn him for this.
But as for the philosophy embedded in the film, I think I agree with you here.
Maybe the main character of the film was just one of those who understood books. But he was only 20. And, judging by the plot, he mostly spent his leisure time not in the library at all, but in bars and partying with the boys. So where he got so much knowledge from is still a mystery.
I have nothing against Robin Williams. I just noticed that movies with him are absolutely not my thing. They do not cause anything but irritation and eye rolling. Although most people really like it, and this phenomenon is curious and strange to me.
Apparently, I'm just not a proponent of abstract reasoning about the sublime. They have little to do with reality, which is why it is so hard for me to get into and believe in what is happening. You should have been born a romantic...
Sean: My wife died.
Will: Hence the phrase: getting married again.
SEAN: She's dead.