‘Good Will Hunting’ is Good to Watch for Mental Health Month
The relationship between Will and Sean is the best part of the movie. It’s always a delight to see Robin Williams on screen

At the end of 2023, my sister, living with schizophrenia for fifteen years, received her first electroconvulsive therapy. Watching her in the ambulance, I wondered: as she and I drift apart and our parents age, how long can I keep turning away—and how should I see her now?
The relationship between Will and Sean is the best part of the movie. It’s always a delight to see Robin Williams on screen
We, the Jane Austen aficionados, are suckers for everything and anything under the sun that’s remotely related to her and her world. That’s because we are so drawn to her unique style of fiction, romance, and social commentary, we take any allusion to her influence as a hint to what to expect when we start watching a movie or reading a book.
The “gay best friend”, an age-old trope, has been done in countless films and television series. Ranging from one-note (Sex and the City's Stanford and Mario) to nuanced (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Tituss), the gay best friend exists to support and advise the main protagonist, with their conflicts swept to the side.
People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.
This HBO mini-series asks why a young white man turned to violence and finds no easy answers. But why do we only ask questions about certain kinds of killers?