Decent Movie.

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2017)

Good Will Hunting is a very dramatic movie that is focused on the life of Will Hunting and his skills in mathematics. Will is a janitor at MIT, MIT is a university near Boston, Massachusetts that is known to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Will would do math questions on a chalkboard near a professors class after school hours when nobody was there. The equations could not even be solved by the professor (Lambeau). The professor was stumbled and knew he had to find whoever was capable of solving these challenging equations. After Will gets placed into jail for having another fight, professor Lambeau bails him out under the promise that he will undergo therapy and that he will help him with the challenging questions. Lambeau takes Will to one of his old friends (Sean) for therapy. After several sessions with Sean, Will tries to get his life back in order. Sean gives Will advice on his job and on his love life (Skylar).
The literary aspects of the film were decent as only a few things were done well. Characters such as Will and Sean were shown to have a lot of depth, whereas Skylar and Will's best friend Chuckie, were not given to much depth to their character. Also, I found Skylar having a British accent was unnecessary as the movie already contains an abundance of Boston accents. Décor was used nicely in the film, for example, it was used to help show how Will is very poor. Something that I enjoyed particularly was how Will seemed to possess the element of an antagonist rather than a protagonist. Will was very arrogant, rude and obnoxious character at first, which is alike that of an antagonist. However, as the movie progresses he begins to develop the characteristics of a protagonist and the stereotypical 'good guy'. The final subject that I thought was done very nicely was the use of comedy and satire throughout the movie. I felt it kept the viewer entertained and it was used nicely to 'lighten up' gloomy situations.
Dramtically, the film had many things that stuck out to me. The film used lots of extreme close up and close up shots to capture the pure emotion in Will on several occasions. Something else I noticed in the film was that whenever Will was at his house or was sad the colours always reflected that and were dark and gloomy. The same thing goes for when Will was happy except the colours visible were very bright and shiny and it helped reflect his current emotions.
The film was also excellent cinematically. Using Boston as the setting for the movie I thought was a brilliant idea as Boston is the location of very many prestigious and recognizable universities. This really helped with the storyline.
Overall, I really enjoyed the movie and thought it was very entertaining. My biggest problem with the movie is the predictability it contained. After watching just fifteen minutes you could start to get a sense of how the movie was going to end off. I also would definitely watch this movie again.