Essay On Good Will Hunting

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Good Will Hunting is a story about a young man who overcomes his demons brought on by a childhood of psychological, physical, and emotional abuse in order to better his life and pursue his natural talents of mathematics with the help of his relationships. Throughout the story we are introduced to three of his most important relationships, the one with his psychologist, his best friend, and his love interest but in my point of view his most important relationship is with Chuckie, he is the main person that pushes Will to pursue better interests at the end of the film. First of all, throughout the movie, we see Will passing time with his group of friends, they eat and drink at bars after work, also play a little ball to pass the time. Most of Will’s actions are directed towards Chuckie because he usually aims his attention towards him. For example, when they are at the Harvard bar when Chuckie approaches Skylar and her friend, Will swoops in to defend him from the man that is confronting him. Will always talks to Chuckie first when discussing his personal life, he talks to him about Skylar and his therapy sessions with Sean showing how Chuckie is an important aspect of Will’s life. They work together and Chuckie is always giving Will rides to their …show more content…
Chuckie likes to spend his time off drinking and chatting with his buddies sometimes ending in an argument, he uses profane language in most of his talk and jokes around with his friends. Will does these things with his friends but when he is in public he speaks more carefully and also spends his time reading and learning different materials. As friends they respect one another, they do not push one another to speak about something they would not want to and the truth usually comes out, eventually Will tells Chuckie about how he broke off his relationship with

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