Mindcatcher is an inspirational film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, and others, featuring a MIT cleaner, Will. He had an innate talent for mathematics, but he did not use his strengths, and later with the help of a group of friends, Will finally captured his heart and bravely pursued love.
This is the interaction between different souls, when a down-and-out genius meets someone who can really read his heart, this moment, he no longer escapes, and can finally bravely look at himself. You know, accepting yourself is often easier than changing yourself, a person's obsession is too deep is never a good thing, only after really seeing their own heart, I know that life may also have a different taste, my life is up to me, what kind of life I live, this decision is always in my own hands.
Just as Beethoven would play beautiful pieces of music as soon as he sat in front of the piano, Will could give the correct answer when he saw a math problem, no matter how tricky it was. However, such a gifted teenager is not an MIT student, he is just a cleaner who occasionally rubs lessons.
If you think of him as a work-study man, you're dead wrong, Will is a typical bad boy who shows us his violent side all the time, and beneath that grim exterior lies a pair of aggressive, sharp eyes that seem hostile to everyone, but that's just a way he wants to protect himself.
When Professor Lambert put a problem he thought was a problem on the bulletin board, he could not have imagined that it was not his excellent students who could solve it, but a cleaner, which shocked him, and when he tried to get to know the cleaner with full of doubts, he was told that he had left his job, and that Will was being supervised for fighting and causing trouble, and later Professor Lambert came to bail him out.
The precondition for Will's freedom was that he receive the psychiatric treatment arranged for him by Professor Lambert. Apparently, Professor Lamber saw his talent and wanted to discover and cultivate him, and Lambert invited many psychology teachers for him, but they were all turned away by Will.
Although Will is gifted, he is actually inferior in his heart, he has been trying his best to hide himself, does not want to be seen by others for the first half of his broken life, he is afraid that others will have some ambiguity about him because of his unbearable past, so he uses his disdain and violent disguise, hoping to dispel Professor Lambert's ideas about him.
Faced with Will's extreme incompatibility, the helpless Professor Lambert thought of his friend, a very powerful psychology professor, Sean, and perhaps he could find a way.
Things did turn out exactly as Professor Lambert had expected, and with Sean's help, Will finally let down his guard and opened his heart, and it turned out that Will was often abused and abused as a child, which led to his current debauchery.
Due to the injustices he suffered in his childhood, Will has long lived in a state of denial about himself, and when Professor Sean learns of all this, Will seems to be seen through, and he cries wildly, finally venting the emotions he has accumulated over the years.
And what really made Will affirm himself was the words that Professor Sean repeatedly said to him- "It's not your fault", that is, this sentence broke Will's indestructible psychological defense line, at this moment, he seemed to have been reborn, he finally saw himself clearly, and let others see him clearly.
An important factor that allowed Will to grow up smoothly was his long-time friend Chuck. True friends may accompany us to go crazy once in a while, but they will not blindly let us go.
For Will, Chuck was such a friend. Chuck knows that Will has a talent that is different from ordinary people, so he should not be buried, after Will experienced a breakup with his girlfriend, at this time he is confused and can not see the direction of his life, it is Chuck, the friend who has been with him to inspire and wake him up.
Will of Moseton already knows exactly what he wants, so at the end of the story, he embarks on a journey to find his lover, the film is short, only 126 minutes, and our lives are much longer.
In the film, Professor Lambert can't see Thater doing nothing all day, so he forces him to embark on the road of research, in the eyes of Professor Lambert, Will's outstanding talent is likely to be the next Einstein, and what he is doing now is simply a waste of his talents. This move caused dissatisfaction from Professor Sean, who believed that Will had not yet found the direction of his life and should give him more time to see himself.
Such a positive energy film of growth inspiration brings people to think from the soul, what kind of person we should become, whether we should follow our own intentions to become a person we want to become, or should we become a person who should become according to the general cognition of the outside world and the public.
And no matter what choice you make, you must first clarify the direction of your life. The fierce quarrel between the two sides and the positions they represent are exactly what reveals to the audience such a real problem about life. At the end of the film, the director does not tell us the answer to this question, but Will is finally relieved, he is lucky, he should have his own interest and love for academia, but the chaotic life temporarily hindered him.
What is it like to really live? For Will, the control of life is in his own hands, which is to truly live, to live for himself, perhaps Professor Lambert also for Will's future and life's considerations, let him embark on the academic path, but forced is never a reasonable and correct way, only when Will really recognizes his heart and accepts his talent, can he make his choice to follow his own.
In our real life, there are many elders and friends who will bind you in the name of "good for you", they stand on the moral high ground, force us to take the right path as they think, or let us make a choice that they want in their hearts, but people live a lifetime, they should live for themselves, right? The road you want to take and the decisions you make should fully comply with your own wishes, only in this way can you live up to this life.
Thank you for watching, paying attention to me, and taking you to learn more entertainment stories!