Good Will Hunting

Just few days back one of my friend asked me to download him some movies and we hopped around the issue of the new blockbusters and drag flops. I asked him which movie he’d want me to download for him and he said ‘jis main kuch motivational.. u know inspiration type’. Next beat I asked him.. ‘Good Will Hunting daikhi hai?’

The are only few moments that completely revolutionize your life. Its like one day you wake up in the morning look around your own room and see something new…maybe the curtains look different, maybe you got up the wrong side of the bed. In all you feel different. I clearly remember when I watched ‘Good Will Hunting’. I was maybe 13 years of age and it was probably 2001. Although the movie came out in 1997.It still scores 9.91/10 on IMDB. I was mesmerized, caught in the awe of what should you do or what do you WANT to do – the theme of the movie. This was the movie which began my journey to know the unknown. To touch the intangible, to push my limits and to break free from the ‘routine’. I was just 13 and needless to say wasn’t really that mature. Then I watched it again when I was 16. Every time I watched it I learned something different. I just watched it again… today I am nearly about to turn 22 and the movie still leaves me speechless and I am still caught in the web of what should you do and what you WANT to do? Sometimes I get courage from Will Hunting, a rebel prodigy (alert!! Movie spoiler ahead =D) who left cent% IQ level & buck loads of money behind for a soul mate. Because that was what he wanted.

There is this dialogue in the movie which I particularly like. When Sean (the therapist) asks Will that why he didn’t take the job at NSA(International Security).

Will:
Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin' "send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck. A cute, little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink seven and sevens and play slalom with the icebergs and it ain't too
long 'til he hits one, spills the oil, and kills all the sea-life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive so he's got to walk to the job interviews which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue-plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State.

(Meanwhile Sean sit there and looks at him to continue)

Will: So what'd I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure I'll eliminate the middle man. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? Christ, I could be elected President!

Maybe its hard to understand the relevance of the above dialogues if you haven’t watched this movie. It is a MUST watch.

Sometimes I think when I am twenty-five I am going to watch it again and maybe I would be surprised again.