Tonight on Italia 1 “Will Hunting. Rebel Genius, ”a film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Demon and Robin Williams. The film is dedicated to the memory of poet Allen Ginsberg and writer William S. Burroughs, both of whom died in 1997. “Will Hunting. Rebel genius ”, the plot
In a poor neighborhood in Boston, 20-year-old Will Hunting lives in a precarious and messy way with some friends, including his best friend Chuckie, and makes money by cleaning the floors in the math department of the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). . In his spare time, he reads many books of all kinds and has a vast culture in completely different fields: history, mathematics, philosophy, literature, science, law, but his true talent is in calculation. For Will, the problems deriving from his genius are greater than the benefits and after making fun of many psychologists, Will Hunting meets Dr. Sean Maguire with whom, after a difficult start, he establishes a good relationship. Sean is the only one who seems to really help the boy.Robin Williams, the most beautiful phrases from his films
Robin Williams is an icon of recent cinema history, so much so that he deserves the nickname of “genius” by Barack Obama Will Hunting: The speech on love
“If I asked you about art you would probably quote me all the art books ever written… Michelangelo. You know a lot about him: his works, his political aspirations, him and the pope, his sexual tendencies, all of it true
But I bet you can’t tell me what the smell is in the Sistine Chapel. You’ve never been there with your head turned towards that beautiful ceiling… never seen.If I asked you about women, you would probably give me a summary of your preferences, you may even have fucked a few times… but you can’t tell me what it’s like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy . You’re a tough guy. And if I asked you about the war you would probably throw Shakespeare in my face eh
“Once again in the breach dear friends!” … but you have never touched one. You’ve never held your best friend’s head in your lap watching him breathe his last while he looks for help. If I asked you about love you would probably tell me a sonnet . If I asked you about love you would probably tell me a sonnet. But looking at a woman you have never been completely vulnerable … you don’t know one that rises with your eyes, feeling that God has sent an angel to earth just for you, to save you from the depths of hell. You don’t know what it’s like to be her angel of hers, to have so much love for her, close to her forever, under all circumstances, including her cancer. You don’t know what it’s like to sleep in a hospital chair for two months holding her hand, so the doctors see in your eyes that the term “visiting hours” doesn’t apply to you. You don’t know what loss is
You don’t know what real loss is, because it only happens when you love something more than you love yourself: I doubt you’ve ever dared to love someone that much. I look at you, and I don’t see an intelligent man, sure of himself, I see a bully who shits himself in fear. But, you are a genius Will, who denies this. Nobody can understand what you have deep inside. But you pretend to know everything about me because you saw my painting and you tore my fucking life apart. You are just an orphan
Do you think I can frame how difficult your life has been, what you feel, who you are, because I have read Oliver Twist
This is enough to pigeonhole you
Personally, I really don’t care about all this, because you know what, there’s nothing I can learn from you that I don’t read in some fucking book. Unless you want to talk about yourself. Whose are you. Then the thing fascinates me. I’m in. But you don’t want to, true champion.
You are terrified of what you would say. The move is yours, boss. “
