Assignment 17- John Felty

Recently I have two movies that I suppose you could classify as dramas. I watched Charlie St. Cloud, a story about an older brother who deals with the loss of his younger brother in a car crash, and Good Will Hunting, the story of a math wiz who doesn't apply himself. Both movies were great and really invoke emotion, but they do this in two different ways. In Charlie St. Cloud the audience is saddened by the loss of the little brother and watching Charlie struggle in the years after imagining his little brother as he "plays catch with him." I feel that this directly invoked emotion, whereas in Good Will Hunting I don't know where it comes from. The ending of this movie was particularly mind-blowing to me, when Will uses Robin William's character's own words about him going to "see about a girl." At that point I was like, "Woah. This movie is trippin." Different from Charlie St. Cloud, I can't quite put a finger on a particular event within Good Will Hunting that I can specify an emotion it made me feel, yet somehow after watching the entire thing I was left in awe.