Themes that run through "Good Will Hunting" are layered. The nature of genius, class conflict, and the complexities of love and trust are all explored, not focusing solely on Will. Maguire and Lambeau old roommates took different paths after MIT. Maguire will not attend reunions, looked on as a sellout for leaving the upper echelon of the academy to teach in a Boston community college, finding his true love in the process. Lambeau, all awards and success, with little personal fulfillment, resents that Maguire was "smarter than me then, and smarter than me now." They argue about whether Will should follow his heart or his brain, while Will himself becomes lost in their bickering.
Environment:
In many communities that host universities, there is a class division between the locals, the "town", and the university people, "the gown" (for the gowns worn at graduation). This is another way of saying working class vs. educated elite. "Southie" (South Boston) is an Irish working class neighbourhood..
One of the centres of academic life in the Boston area is the adjoining city of Cambridge, in which Harvard, MIT and several other universities are located. The town and gown difference is shown in many aspects of the movie, setting up conflict in Will's relationship with Lambeau, with Skylar, with the young graduate student in the bar, and with the NSA, as well as with his own abilities and interests.
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