Good Will Hunting

I just re-watched my favourite movie of all time again today, Good Will Hunting... It's been awhile since I've seen it from start to finish, several years even.

I realized this time that the relationship in it that means the most to me, that really is the most pivotal one, is the one between Will and Chuckie (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck). I think it'd be easy to say that either Sean or Skylar are the key catalysts for Will's "healing" if you will, but in my mind, it's all about Chuckie. Will needs Chuckie's permission implicitly in order to move forward. It's the whole "brothers without blood" thing... that loyalty, that complete and utter trust that they have in each other that is so key to everything. I'm an only child, and I so wish I had a sibling or that I'd ever had that sort of friendship with someone. I realize it's too late for me now and that it'll never happen for me at this point in my life. That's not meant to be depressing, even though it may sound that way. It's meant to be honest and factual.

I also realize that I have quite a bit in common with Will, which scares me a bit. I've not got the tragic story that he does (thankfully) but I do see several similarities... more than I'd ever seen in all the years I've watched it.

Perhaps that self realization can be a positive. Does it equal growth? Maybe... but I'd have to act for that to happen-- ha! I do think there's something to be said for self awareness, however, and I think I'm more self aware than I have ever been in my life. For better or for worse.

Either way, I'm pretty stoked to have rediscovered the film in a whole new light 12 years after it came out.

I gotta go see about a Diet Coke.