Good Will Hunting

The article "Holden Caulfield, Alex Portnoy, and Good Will Hunting: Coming of Age in American Films and Novels," states that American youth want to enter adulthood but are fearful of doing so from their childhood and adolecence negative experiences that indicate that the adult world isn't all it is cooked up to be. This statement is true for Will Hunting in the film Good Will Hunting. The film is all about Will, a foster home orphan in South Boston, trying to discover how to enter into the adult world and put his intellectual talent to use. From his dark experiences as a orphan child, Will never wants to get out of his comfort zone and set out on a new path of life as an adult.
There are many relationships in the film that are very much accurate with real life. One relationship is the relationship between Will and his best friend Chuckie. Chuckie is constantly encouraging Will to put his talents to use. In one scene in the film, Chuckie tells Will how all of his friends would love the gift he had. This is an example of how Will doesn't want to enter adulthood as the article "Holden Caulfield, Alex Portnoy, and Good Will Hunting: Cominig of Age in American Films and Novels," stated.
Another relationship is with Will and Skylar, a Harvard college student. A critc in the article previously cited, stated how the relationship was useful and helped drive the movie. Their relationship was less sexual and more dynamic of humor and compatible personalitlies.
Good Will Hunting is one of the better movies I have watched in a very long time. It made me interested in what was going to happen throughout the whole movie. Was Will going to take one of the many offers he got? If so, which one would he take? Or would Will leave his home and start a new life with Skylar in California?
Personally, I think the film was lacking some things. When it came to the relationship with Will and Skylar, it should of had more of Will and Skylar hanging out together to show how close they came over time. It also never showed anything about Will when he was an orphan, it just mentioned how he was an orphan. With being an orphan being such a major part of his life, I think the film should of had some sort of flashback of Will in the foster home to give the audience a glympse of what his life was like as a child.