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¶ … Hunting: Interpersonal communication concepts
Good Will Hunting is the story of a working-class young man who possesses an extraordinary mathematical gift. Over the course of the film, Will must overcome practical and psychological barriers to be able to realize his true potential. He must review his self-concept as a 'blue-collar' guy and instead entertain the possibility that he deserves to attend an institution of higher learning. With the support and aid of a teacher, he becomes capable of doing so. Will must reevaluate his current self-conception, the social roles offered to him by his immediate environment, and find different sources of social comparison to model.
At the beginning of the film, Will makes a joke to his best friend Chuckie about beating up on some 'smart kids' for fun. Will does not see himself as a genius. He works as a janitor, and everything in his life -- from his friends to his family influences --...
For Will, doing physical work is 'real work,' particularly since intellectual activities have always come easily to him. He solves a complex problem on the chalkboard of an MIT classroom without effort, but because his math skills have never been valued, he does not see himself as special or worthy of aspiring to a university education. Only after his blue-collar friends become convinced of his unique genius and urge Will to move out of his neighborhood and seek a new life can Will begin to shift his self-conception. Pressures to change, just like pressures to conform, must come from without, not just within.
The film dramatizes how society creates certain social roles that we are all expected to perform. It is assumed that a janitor does not have a higher-level intelligence and that a mathematics professor could never have swept a floor in his life. In America,…
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Good Will Hunting. Directed by Gus Van Sant. 1997.
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