Good Will Hunting was directed by Gus Van Sant in 1997 starring Matt Damon (Saving Private Ryan), Ben Affleck (Pearl Harbour) , Minnie Driver and Robin Williams (Patch Adams). Other films by Van Sant such as My Own Private Idaho (1991) or the remake of Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho does not even come close to Good Will hunting’s brilliant screen-play.

Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is a young South Boston orphan with a troubled childhood and also had dangerous clashes with the law. However he is an undeniable genius. He has a photographic memory and can skim through books at no longer than a page a second. His historical knowledge is unparalleled; he is especially gifted in the world of Mathematics. He can baffle top grade Harvard students with ease. He is a silent genius who works as a janitor at the most prestigious technologically advanced university in the world, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A mathematical theorem, which took Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) and his team two years to prove, was placed on the main corridor chalkboards as a contest for the ‘gifte

d’ students of MIT, yet Will was able to prove it with only a glance during his daily rounds as the janitor.

Incidentally at the same time, Will was convicted of assaulting a police officer which he is faced with serving hard time with a heavy bail. Lambeau pleads with the judge to let him off under his supervision, under two conditions; to exercise his mathematically genius with Professor Lambeau and to meet with a therapist to maintain his stability towards the law. From here onwards is where the story truly begins to unfold.

However the strongest and undeniable attraction towards this movie has to be the script in which it was based on. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote the original script while they were at college which took them five years to perfect. It is not an action script nor is it a horror script. It is an emotionally involving psychological drama and above all, an intelligently written script. The script is not complex yet not simple; the script is involving as well as compelling. It attempts to allow the viewer to see the story from two perspectives; through the eyes of Will Hunting and also through the eyes of the people around him. Each and every character has his or her own problems or obstacles to overcome; they all fall in place nicely at the end.

The main highlight of this movie is its strong

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