Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Scene from the movie "Good Will Hunting"

This is a video sent by my Philosphy teacher which is related to one of our topics in class - "Danasin Mo"

The scene is from the movie, Good Will Hunting. The court ordered
Will (Matt Damon) to go to Sean (Robin Williams) for counseling after
figuring in a brawl. Will saw a painting hanged on Sean's wall and
gave the doctor a quick psychoanalysis. The next day, they met in a
park and here's what Sean has to say:



Sean: Thought about what you said to me the other day, about my
painting. Stayed up half the night thinking about it. Something
occurred to me... fell into a deep peaceful sleep, and haven't thought
about you since. Do you know what occurred to me?
Will: No.
Sean: You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're
talkin' about.
Will: Why thank you.
Sean: It's all right. You've never been out of Boston.
Will: Nope.
Sean: So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny
on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about
him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual
orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me
what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood
there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you
about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal
favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell
me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy.
You're a tough kid. And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw
Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends."
But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's
head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for
help. I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But
you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known
someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an
angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of
hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have
that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer.
And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room
for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in
your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You
don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved
something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared
to love anybody that much. 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 fucking life
apart. You're an orphan right?
[Will nods]
Sean: 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 can't
read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you
are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you
sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.

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