Good Will Hunting: The Affects Of Abuse In Adulthood

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Violence is a common trait in victims of physical abuse. Will makes it practice to go and try to make the local college playboys, who may be trying to pick girls up with there witty intelligence look bad. This is common in those that have been hurt, to seek out those that they can unleash their inner anger and pint up emotions on. However, we then see a side of will that is beyond the fights and drinking, a scene is shown of Will reading, in fact he is speed reading what looks like he is perusing through a book he is actually reading and comprehending what he is reading. Though not mentioned it is evident will has an eidetic memory. He is intelligent beyond the average person and certainly among the friends he has kept.

Will is working at a job as a janitor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, While working there, the math professor Gerald Lambeau puts one of the hardest math problems on the board outside the classroom. Will secretly solves it immediately. Will and his ...

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He goes on to say ``And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my f...ing life apart. You're an orphan right? Do you think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I ...

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