As true as it ever was: Will Hunting had it right 14 years ago

[geefloyd46]

[snappyturtle]

1. Yep....I had forgotten this a long time ago. Thanks. nt

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. Thanks...

One of the smartest movies ever made...IMHO

[MrMickeysMom]

3. Run this next week, and I'll K and R it again..

Absol-fucking-lutely damned RIGHT, geefloyd46!

[riverbendviewgal]

6. witten by him and his best friend Ben Affleck

And I am sure they both truly believed what they wrote. I got watch the movie again. Maybe Matt cautioned Ben to think hard in running for Kerry's seat.

[abelenkpe]

4. K&R nt

[Curmudgeoness]

5. True yesterday, true today, true tomorrow.

Some things just never seem to change. That was spot-on.

[ewagner]

7. I never saw the movie

not a Matt Damon fan....

but...

HOLY SHIT!

[riverbendviewgal]

8. i would like to point out that Temple Grandin lectured on how autistic

People have smart brilliant minds. many are being shunted to video games and janitor work. Also she said in her lecture that many kids are going to school to sign up to wall streets riches instead of doing what they are good at and helping society.. my post on DU. I am on my tablet now and don't know how to copy and paste. I am not talking about the HBO movie but a 2012 lecture. She is awesome and has several doctorates...I noticed my post is on the video section
What struck me was how she pointed out how autistic people see things differently. She brought up the BP disaster link and explained what they did wrong. Also she brought up what was not seen in Japan in the nuclear meltdown but she saw.

So much wasted brain power in America.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. Wow. Perfect.

Thanks!

[Poll_Blind]

10. Damn!

PB

[SalviaBlue]

11. Oh wow, I have to watch that movir again.

He really connects everything beautifully.

[tiredtoo]

12. Just posted the link to video clip on my facebook page.

A good reminder to all. Will now try to find the Temple G video.

[SamKnause]

13. Matt

As true as it ever was indeed !!!!

[LibertyBell7]

14. I see your 14 years & raise you 36 years...

...from Paddy Chayefsky's Network from 1976:

Amazing prescience of the global revolution of today committed by those whom I fondly refer to as the Corporazis. (I offer this not as a rebuttal to Damon/Affleck's writing, but as an underscoring and amplification.)

[rtassi]

18. yep ...

[tex-wyo-dem]

15. Thanks for posting! I forgot about this...

But so true. What he's saying reminds me of John Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

[Ian62]

16. As the Op-ed says

As true as it ever was.

Probably more true now than it was then.

[rtassi]

17. My 12 year old daughter and I just watched this ..

last night and I posted the paraphrased version of this on FB to some friends who had entered into a "discussion" of related topics ... Didn't know there was a clip available ... Thank you!

[jillan]

19. Any movie Matt Damon is in is amazing. I really believe he is the rare actor that is very selective

about what movie he will be in. He uses his talent for more than acting, he also picks movie that tell a story.

Did you see the Adjustment Bureau? It is really not that far from what Netflix is doing to us.

Also I cannot wait for his new movie to come out next month about fracking.

Even the feel good movie We Bought A Zoo sent a message about little people doing great things. And caring about animals.

He is a real special man, amazing actor, a true humanitarian - and dang - easy on these old eyes!

[NYC Liberal]

20. Way off the mark.

Only $2.50 a gallon??

[Martin Eden]

21. GOOD for you, Will Hunting!

After that speech the NSA probably flagged him as a security risk.

[baldguy]

22. Most thinking people agree that the "system" is rigged.

What most of them don't realize - or don't acknowledge - is that any dumbass can win when they rig the system.

Which means that the Top 1% - the well-to-do, the über-wealthy, the richest fucking people in the history of humanity - aren't any better, or smarter, or luckier, or more blessed by God, or more deserving of govt help, than the average schmuck who's been out of work for the last year-and-a-half & whose house is being foreclosed out from under them.