Good Will Hunting
I chose to watch Good Will Hunting. It is about a man named Will Hunting who is highly intelligent, primarily with mathematics. He was working in a college as a janitor and the math Professor, Gerald Lambeau had left an equation on the board in the hallway. Will was doing his cleaning of the building when he came across the problem and solved it. The class came to Professor Lambeau shortly after to ask who solved it because they couldn’t wait until Monday to find out. He was baffled and went to see what she was talking about. Monday in class he asked who had done it and nobody owned up so it was left a mystery. Shortly after he saw Will writing on the chalkboard and accused him of graffti and Will walked away quickly apologizing …show more content…
A lot of the symptoms they show Will having are clear cut PSTD symptoms. Some symptoms that Will has that match up with PTSD are agitation, self-destructive behavior, social isolation, mistrust, and emotional detachment (ADAA, 2016). I don’t feel that the movie misrepresented the disorder though. Will had been putting on a front so people wouldn’t know anything was truly wrong with him. When people got too close is when they’d see who he truly was. The girl he fell in love with saw it first and when he tried to shut her out and he blew up and punched the wall right by her head. The thing with mental disorders is everyone handles them differently. One person may have more control over certain outbursts than someone else with the exact same disorder. The movie showed Will not giving people trust immediately when it came to trying to get him to see a therapist. They also showed how he was attempting to be self-destructive when he wanted to sabotage a great opportunity for himself, and some definite self-destruction when he ended the relationship with a girl he loved simply because he was afraid. In my eyes, the film represented the disorder
I chose to watch Good Will Hunting. It is about a man named Will Hunting who is highly intelligent, primarily with mathematics. He was working in a college as a janitor and the math Professor, Gerald Lambeau had left an equation on the board in the hallway. Will was doing his cleaning of the building when he came across the problem and solved it. The class came to Professor Lambeau shortly after to ask who solved it because they couldn’t wait until Monday to find out. He was baffled and went to see what she was talking about. Monday in class he asked who had done it and nobody owned up so it was left a mystery. Shortly after he saw Will writing on the chalkboard and accused him of graffti and Will walked away quickly apologizing …show more content…
A lot of the symptoms they show Will having are clear cut PSTD symptoms. Some symptoms that Will has that match up with PTSD are agitation, self-destructive behavior, social isolation, mistrust, and emotional detachment (ADAA, 2016). I don’t feel that the movie misrepresented the disorder though. Will had been putting on a front so people wouldn’t know anything was truly wrong with him. When people got too close is when they’d see who he truly was. The girl he fell in love with saw it first and when he tried to shut her out and he blew up and punched the wall right by her head. The thing with mental disorders is everyone handles them differently. One person may have more control over certain outbursts than someone else with the exact same disorder. The movie showed Will not giving people trust immediately when it came to trying to get him to see a therapist. They also showed how he was attempting to be self-destructive when he wanted to sabotage a great opportunity for himself, and some definite self-destruction when he ended the relationship with a girl he loved simply because he was afraid. In my eyes, the film represented the disorder