Good Will Hunting

The movie Good Will Hunting starts involves much conflict and drama throughout.  The main character Will Hunting fights constantly with himself, with others around him and with a combination of both.  But throughout this conflict that he occurs, his character changes in a few different ways that allow him to move forward in his life and use all his potential.

In the movie, Will is a very smart man who is a janitor at MIT, he solves a difficult math problem with ease which catches the instructor's eye.  When faced with another math problem, Will decides to flee from this problem, he doesn't want attention nor does he want confrontation.  After this will has some internal conflict that he experiences when he sees a man who use to bully him in school.  Will was deciding whether or not he should take out his revenge on the man, but eventually he does.  Will gets sentenced to therapy and schooling instead of prison.

At therapy he has conflict with the therapist because he is a very closed and private person, so when the therapist tries to pry him open to see what is inside he fights back.  At the same time Will's math professor sets him up with some job interviews but has internal conflict there as well.  He must get over his fear of certain failure in the future in order to take a job.  He needs to break free from his normal life and his fight urges to remain secluded to himself so that he can use his full potential to get a better job.  The next time conflict arises is when he meets Skylar, she tells him that she loves him and wants him to move to California with her while she gets her graduate degree.  But this is not something that Will is too excited about because he doesn't want to leave his comfort zone of Brooklyn.

After this he begins to open up to his therapist and it changes his character entirely.  He tells his therapist that he was abused as a child which makes him the way that he is in the movie; the therapist helps him get over it and accept that it wasn't his fault.  After he does this, his personality changes and he starts to break free from what he is normally use to.  his character opens up and he begins to realize what he is truly capable of.