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The American dream is the belief that if you have to will to succeed and want success and prosperity you have an equal opportunity to do so. In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will the main character grew up with nothing, and at the end he has achieves his American dream what some might say. Everyone has their own American dream and in Good Will Hunting it was just Will’s American dream, everyone controls their fate and how successful they are in their minds, there is no cookie cutter American…

"Good Will Hunting" is about a young cleaner Will easily solved a very difficult subject, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote on the bulletin board. Professor discovered this talent, hope to train him to become a genius in his mind. However, Will extremely clever, but rebellious uninhibited, even fights trouble everywhere. Because he was born poor, by the shadow of the impact of childhood abuse, the mind seems to be on the lock, a professor can not walk into his world.…

Therapy session with Will and Sean In the early part of the film, Will start to have a therapy session with Sean, he was quite resistant to reveal himself and share his past stories at the beginning of the session, which is understandable considering his traumatised childhood and socio-economical status. With the high level of cultural intelligence and cultural capabilities of Sean, Will starts to feel secure and safe with Sean’s presence, which guards down his defending mechanism and express…

To do the analyze of the movie Good Will Hunting though the theory Cognitive Dissonance it required a review of literature with previous research about the topic that support this study. Following is the literature review that examined the variety of studies previously done by scholars in the area about Cognitive Dissonance. Leon Festinger is the founder of this theory and will be introduced as he is the primary source, following is a subtitle of research other scholars has done within this…

He listens to the voice of his soul, which finally comes out victorious. Here the characters are freethinkers, true lovers of life, harbingers of innovative ideas, of liberty and precursors of the youth-calling-approach. Chetan Bhagat himself wrote script for this film. The movie is noted for the special appearance of Bollywood star Salman Khan. His next novel is content with a great theme about the cricket, which is named as The 3 Mistakes of My Life. This is a novel of the dark passion. It…

The Bourne trilogy, specifically Bourne identity focuses on man whom suffers from retrograde amnesia. The film starts with a man found floating in the Mediterranean Sea with two gunshots wounds in his back. He is rescued by nearby fishermen’s, and on this boat happened to be a doctor. The doctor finds and extracts two bullets from Jason’s back and small microchip that was lodged in his hip. After waking up he spends the rest of the film trying to regain his memory given that one cue. The cue…

Dr. Seuss once said, “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” Many people seem to know this quote, or have at least heard of it. Most of them even agree wholeheartedly with it. Why is it then, that we still feel the need to fit in? When watching Finding Forrester, the theme of struggling to fit in and the reality of how hard it can be when you stand out, become the most apparent to me. In the beginning of Finding Forrester, Jamal Wallace does his best to fit in with his group of friends…

Two different lives’ stories have been produced as movies. Temple Grandin was a true story about an autistic person’s life and how she became a successful person. Autism did not bring her life down, but it was an opportunity that allowed her to become a successful scientist. The movie had been produced to show how an autistic person acted and thought or exhibited how her life was different from other autistic people and was difficult being an autistic person. Still, she motivated herself and…

History is all one big lie. There have been many misconceptions about the history that has been taught to students throughout grade, middle and high school. Most of these misconceptions include the background information over topics such are Christopher Columbus, the pilgrims, Native Americans, and slavery. After reading books by authors like Howard Zinn and James Loewen it made it easier to understand how the history that has been included in textbooks is manipulated and altered by certain…

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a true genius? Good Will Hunting is a movie about just that: a young boy who has experienced a less than satisfactory upbringing, but through reading informational books at a public library in his youth and through having a photographic memory that allows him to remember everything he reads has resulted in him becoming very intelligent. It is shown just how intelligent he is when he solves a proof that is written on a chalkboard at Harvard University…