When I first watched this film I was eleven and I watched it with my family. My family has always loved the idea of education and have consistently striven to learn and teach the rest of the family by encouraging us to learn as much as possible. Thus this movie about a genius kid is something we have consistently adored as a film. I have fond memories of being compared to the intellect of Will Hunting even though I know it’s a joke. The idea that there is a super genius kid who rarely takes anything seriously, makes you wish to be like that and try harder in your studies to become good at everything and no longer need to try too hard. As a quote taken from IMDB states ”Who wouldn’t want to be Will Hunting?” But it quickly becomes evident in the film that not even a super genius can escape from the trauma and qualms of normal life. 

Now that I have watched it again, I feel that I can relate more to the positions in the film of what Will Hunting’s friends believe that he was so far above everyone in intellect  and he had yet to do anything with his intellect and talent.  They believed he was given talents, but not found a way out of his current life,  and he had not taken advantage of the opportunity. The concept of the film being someone rising above the his past  is not a new concept,  but this movie does it well. My view of this movie has changed since then,  whereas I used to focus on the genius of Will,  now I focus on his faults and his trauma and  how the world can easily lift you up or throw you down. At any moment Will could move forward,  but  he his is fearful due to the  trauma that he has been through and  he does not want anyone to get close to him.  The fear holds him back more than anything or anyone in this movie and because of this inability to open up,  Will had held himself back. 

Around the time of the release of Good Will Hunting there were many issues around the foster care system. The price of education beyond high school was also astronomical. Good Will Hunting went over both of these issues. Since that time,  some of these issues have been addressed.

This movie is rather unconventional it has names that are now famous in it but at the time only Robin Williams was really well known this movie was also written by two of the main actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are friends and lived together for sometime they had decided to write this movie together and the script was sent to Robin Williams who agreed to due because of how good the script was as stated in this interview: 

In the interview Robin Williams states Affleck and Damon wrote the script by bouncing ideas and conversation off of each other and I find that to be interesting. To me the idea of conversing to write a script makes me think about how good  the script of Good Will Hunting is and how I cannot think of many films that have dialogue  like that movie does.