"You're good, Will!  You're really good!"  If you want Robin Williams wheezing this mantra in your face-- if you think that's all it'll take to give you the girl, a car, and a road out west, this is your film!  This film has been used in courses on the Holocaust to show how propaganda works: by inducing a state of conformity in the target audience.  I don't think I've ever seen a more dishonest film, or an uglier one.

Of course people who judge films by the effect they have on their moods will disagree.  They don't see the similarity between this effect and say, the effect of...heroin.  If they should happen upon actual art-- which is supposed to help human beings understand the world and how to live in it-- these people would of course reject it as "weird."

This is industrial propaganda masquerading as "honesty."  Pure evil.

Having said that,  in the years since this film was released,  Matt Damon has come a long way towards becoming a real artist.  Perhaps this horror was a compromise he made to the gods of commerce (it is said the once great screenwriter William Goldman-- now a hack-- actually contributed a great deal to this script).
"You're good, Will! You're really good! "  If you want Robin Williams wheezing this mantra in your face-- if you think that's all it'll take to give you the girl, a car, and a road out west, this is your film! This film has been used in courses on the Holocaust to show how propaganda works: by inducing a state of conformity in the target audience. I don't think I've ever seen a more dishonest film, or an uglier one. Of course people who judge films by the effect they have on their moods will disagree. They don't see the similarity between this effect and say, the effect of... heroin. If they should happen upon actual art-- which is supposed to help human beings understand the world and how to live in it-- these people would of course reject it as "weird. "

This is industrial propaganda masquerading as "honesty. "  Pure evil. Having said that,  in the years since this film was released,  Matt Damon has come a long way towards becoming a real artist. Perhaps this horror was a compromise he made to the gods of commerce (it is said the once great screenwriter William Goldman-- now a hack-- actually contributed a great deal to this script).