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GOOD WILL HUNTING

about how young people behave
nowadays. And they have an altogeth-
Will Hunting — whose name
er excellent cast, including themselves,
forms the basis of the title for this sea-
and a top-flight director in Gus Van
son's hip feel-good movie — is a
Sant (fortunately, not in one of his
young man from South Boston who
eccentric phases).
has a winning ticket in the lottery of
Will (played by Damon) is a young
life. The question is: Can he overcome
man from South Boston who pals
the psychological burdens of a
around with his buddies, drinking
wretched childhood and cash it in?
beer and getting into scrapes. An
What do you think? The test is not
orphan who was knocked around as a
whether we're surprised by the out-
kid,
he has accumulated a prison
come, but whether we still care by the
record. He has gotten into the Massa-
time we get to it. On that ground,
chusetts Institute of Technology, but
Good Will Hunting does its work very
only as a janitor.
well. It's something like Shine,
Robin Williams He mops up the corridors
only without music (and the
(Sean) and Matt where_the lofty Professor
added benefit of not inflicting
Damon (Will
Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard)
a pianist of shaky talent on the
Hunting)
in
Gus
puts
up ferociously difficult
world's concert stages).
Van Sant's
math problems to see if his
Then again, Good Will
"Good Will
students can solve them
Hunting is something like any
Hunting."
before the semester is out.
number of "buddies from the
One evening in the deserted
old neighborhood" movies.
hallway, with no one to see him, Will
Actually, it's a good deal like lots of
steps up to the blackboard and writes
films, including the last one in which
out the proof.
Robin Williams played a
This is not as far-fetched as it
therapist/teacher in his rumpled, fuzzy
sounds. Albert Einstein was once a
mode.
lowly patent clerk in Switzerland, and
Fortunately, I didn't mind, and
the self-taught Indian prodigy S.A.
audiences in general probably won't
Ramanujan essentially reinvented
either. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck,
mathematics on his own. In Will's
who wrote the screenplay and star in
case, he uses his brilliant gifts to
it, have a solid winner on their hands.
stymie others; rather than step forward
Their writing is cleverly put togeth-
and take credit for the proof, he
er and crisp in tone, with a good feel

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