Analysis Of The Movie 'Good Will Hunting'

In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will Hunting (the main character) meets a girl named Skylar at a bar, who immediately has an interest in him. When it comes down to the topic of finding your soulmate there are endless possibilities on how the journey to realizing they are the one, will be. Growing up Skylar went to private schools. In the movie she is currently attending Harvard and then plans to go to Stanford for Med School. Her mother is out of the picture, she was never mentioned in the movie. Her father died at the age of thirteen, and wakes up everyday wishing she could give all the money she inherited from him to spend one more day with her father. Will had a tough childhood, growing up his biological parents abandoned him at a very young age. He went through several foster homes and had to be removed from three because he was being physically abused. In one of those homes his foster father would beat him with a wrench. Having a horrible childhood made Will have an abandonment disorder, and a fear of attachment. Skylar and Will obviously live completely different lives, the one thing they do have in common is that they are both intelligent individuals. Upon meeting each other an instant attraction was felt between
A week later, Will tells Sean(his therapist) about his date with Skylar. Sean asks why he hasn't called her in over a week. Will then replies with “Why? So I can realize she's not that smart, that she's fuckin' boring? Y'know--I mean...this girl is like fuckin' perfect right now, I don't wanna r-ruin that.” Sean then responded with “Maybe you're perfect right now. Maybe you don’t wanna ruin that. I think that's a super philosophy, Will, that way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really know anybody”. This scene showed a side of Will that views have never seen before. Will not wanting to call her is because he's scared to get attached to