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Summary: This movie was superb!!!
Review: Matt Damon has been in acting scene for almost 10 years before he made it really big, and he really deserves the fame with this movie. He not only acted in it but also wrote this endearing movie, now how many 27 year olds in Hollywood have done that? By the way, there is a reason why Matt is so famous. It's because he is so beautful and intelligent! I know someone in my college who looks a lot like Matt(except he has brown hair) and 6'3 in height, and he too is intelligent and gorgeous! Watch the movie, you will amazed at Matt's memorization skill for the lines in his movie! Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, eat your heart out because Matt is the MAN!!!
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Summary: HEAP OF TRASH
Review: I know a lot of bad people in real life. And not even THEY swear as much as Will Hunting. I thought this made his character so unlike-able. The drama is superficial and the characters are so unsutble. This is just basically hyped-up garbage.
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Summary: I have learnt a lot from this movie!
Review: This movie is really one of my favourites!! I learnt a lot from it..I just love Robin Williams! what a good doctor he is! I have watched this movie many many times already and it's awesome!!!
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Summary: A well constructed film underpinned by poisonous ideology
Review: This is a carefully constructed film which has received extensive critical acclaim. The story line is centred on Goodwill, played by Matt Daemon, a delinquent youth who is frequently in trouble with the authorities. As a child, everything which was bad happened to Goodwill, abused by his father, abandoned by his mother, brutalised and nowhere encouraged, he took to reading books to escape this hell. We join Goodwill as a young man and a member of loyal, courageous and jokey all-white, manual working class peer group whom we are invited to become familiar with. By chance Goodwill has a photographic memory which combined with inate genius enables him to solve phenomenally difficult mathematical problems. Working as a janitor in a prestigious University , Goodwill is talent spotted by an ambitious mathematics professor and soars to preeminence with the assistance of a therapist played by Robin Williams. So far, so good...well not quite, there is something which does not ring true; the film is set in Boston which has a high Black population and yet blacks are invisible throughout. Indeed, the film's artificial social landscape is consistently white and male, the only way in which women are inserted is through the cipher of a confident middle-to-upper class English medical student who is impressed by Goodwill's display of rugged combativity combined with a razor sharp intellect. Goodwill's knock-about peer group present a seductive image, with echoes from the film Good Fellahs, since they appear to be devoid of anything unpleasant such as homophobia or sexism and most especially the racism which is so virulent in U.S. society. Maybe this group have reached a more advanced political level than the majority part of white US society or perhaps they have learnt to disguise their attitudes behind politeness in the same way as the "professional classes". A more probable explanation is that this film is yet another manifestation of the great New Right lie, namely that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with society other than a dependency creating nanny state and man-hating, pinko-liberal, affirmative action junkies. This ideological offensive is given "theoretical" underpinning by the rehabilitation of genetic explanations for criminality, deviant behaviour and, of course, genius, which brings us back to the film... The dialogue is peppered with willfully misleading statements, eg. we are authoritatively informed that "Einstein was a mere patents clerk" and that "Beethoven and Mozart simply sat down and played the piano". In other words these skills were already imprinted on their genes. The truth is quite different; Einstein grew up in an emotionally affirmative family where parents and relatives encouraged puzzle solving and intellectual exploration, he went on to become a patents analyst which, of course, requires substantial scientific insight. Beethoven and Mozart were brought up in families of professional musicians. Moreover, even if we accept that some people have a photographic memory, which is moot, then this does not mean they will have exceptional analytical powers. It is one thing to regurgitate and another to understand and innovate. To have both plus an upbringing which would make Oliver Twist an object of envy can only mean one thing of course, it's all in Goodwill's genes! Indeed, the film is an attack on the social model of humanity, to quote the venerated Richard Feynmann "If you can't explain something you don't understand it", or put another way, the process of collective human engagment develops a more rounded understanding of a particular problem. For a conceptual breakthrough to take place there needs to be both individual and collective deliberation with a flux and reflux of thinking between the two. The former without the latter tends to lead to a narrow intellectual focus, the latter without the former produces unlimited horizons with no content eg. New Labour Blair speak. The therapist relentlessly breaks down Goodwill's emotional armoured plating as he matches Goodwill trauma for trauma as well as outwitting, out-silencing and outlifting him on the bench press. But this therapist is special in the American way; he had his coming of age experience of through the Vietnam War . As the relationship between the pair grows and reaches it's inevitable climax the only thing missing in this modern day reaffirmation of traditional maleness is the camp fires and drum-playing. A maths equation to ponder : Goodwill Hunting = Good Fellahs + the Deer Hunter + Professor Eysenck
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Summary: it was good
Review: better then mos
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Summary: Get this movie
Review: Very, very good
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Summary: Pee-yoo! A profane and obnoxious bore.
Review: This film was offensive from the beginning and only got worse. An interesting premise and some talented actors get lost in the morbid facination with cursing and shallowness of character. The accolades given this film are simply misplaced. Don't waste your time. Get a real film like Brother Sun, Sister Moon to be inspired.
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Summary: Brilliant, geniuses on and off the screen.
Review: This film was astounding. It may not appeal to teenagers with short attention spans or angry Christians, but it is a well written story. Damon, Affleck and Williams portray South Boston lifestyles very well. Witty, clever lines are dotted throughout the film, not forgetting the emotional, heart-breaking scenes. Beautiful boys complete this masterpiece, and unlike the average teenage heart-throb, both Damon and Affleck come with an imaginative, astounding mind.
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Summary: Good stuff baby
Review: Apples? Do you like apples? Well, I got her phone number... what do you think of them apples?
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Summary: The Best Film of 1997
Review: A simply brillant film!!! Well played by all. It's truly embracing in essence and brings you to tears.
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