Just watched this movie, and hands down it's fucking phenomenal! It's won various accolades, and stars Matt Damon, Ben Afflick and Robin Williams. A dream cast, without a doubt. The film stunned me;
it depicts the life of a ostensibly proverbial fuck-up of a kid, who's 20 years old and slummin' it as a cleaner in a schooling institution. He's an orphan, he was in the 'care' of a violent, alcoholic scumbag father who used to domestically abuse him. This has a major impact on the kid, and he's emotionally detached from people he seems to let in too close, and open up with so he kinda repels them and backs off (seen later with a girl, and anyone who pushes his buttons). What many failed to notice until he demonstrates it on a noticeboard (maths questions drawn up on a board), he easily whizzes through them as if it was all elementary to him. This is a guy who hasn't studied EVER, but he's a real fanatic of reading books ranging from philosophy (Nietsche..) to law books (he's usually in trouble, as he's been in juvenile, and has a history of getting into scuffles) and Shakespeare. All in all, he's a polymath, and a genius in several fields. It's cool the way you're almost a fly on the wall, and you're allowed an insight into how he processes things, and his calculated responses. He has a battle of minds with this one preppie jerk, and rips him apart in front of some hot chicks in a bar. He makes a professor (the guy who notices him) feel worthless, after he "pisses" over a maths paper, which he claims is a "fucking joke", while the professor who's like the best at mathematics in the nation, fumbles over this paper, challenging him, and unfortunately knowing that every answer is correct, and he's been put to shame and lost face.
It's really touching at times when the kid seems to pal up with this "burned out" psychologist (Robin Williams), who's like the kid but 25 years into the future. He teaches him a good handful of moral lessons, and coins some interesting theories on life. The kid automatically puts his guard up when he first meets him, and analyzes a painting by the psychologist; he draws to the conclusion that he's life is falling apart, he's a broken man and it's all because of a woman. This is true, his wife died of cancer. But they both have similar backgrounds, and are polymaths. However, the psychologist regrets never taking the bull by it's horns, and pursuing his dreams, and is constantly reminded this by the condescending professor. In the end when the message finally sinks in for the kid, he wakes up and realizes that he is squandering his abilities and disappointing his buddies who want him to fix up (ben afflick is his best friend). He gets his life in shape, applies for a job (offered very high positions organized by the professor) and we see a happy ending when changes his mind and goes after the love of his life (this girl who he meets along the way, but because of his emotional issues he fucks it up, and lets her get away). He ends with the line: "Tell the professor I'm sorry -- gotta see about a girl", this is ironic because the psychologist tells him a story about how he met his wife, and gave up his once-in-a-life time ticket for some baseball match, as he felt this woman was special. The same goes for the kid now.
It really opened my mind, and I highly recommend you guys see it if you already haven't. Sorry for the long essay, I got carried away
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Last edited by Monkmaster; 06-10-2009 at 02:48 AM.
You must be one of those retards in remedial classes, right? The type who still use alphabet soup to learn how to spell. Dumb shit.
Yeah, lets copy a fucking joke from the intrawebz and apply it to this thread. You're so dumb that When asked what the capital of California was, you said "C."
I'm so clever now. Specially because since I liked a movie, I now think that it has changed the way I look at things and since because Ben Affleck illuminated/penetrated me, I will be a very wise and successful person who can copypaste jokes and insert people's names in them.
Good Will Hunting
