Good Will Hunting | 'It's Not Your Fault' (HD) - Matt Damon, Robin Williams | MIRAMAX

For those of you who keep coming back to this clip, it’s not your fault.

The son without a father finds a father without a son. This film was perfect

“It’s not your fault” “Don’t fuck with me, not you” The dialog is just perfectly worded and hits home every time.

I'm not even American, I'm Polish. My dad was forced to fight in the Soviet Army, he was a good man that was broken. He tried his best, but his life was so terrible that he became an alcoholic. When I was learning English, by some miracle, this was the first movie I saw. I went to my dad and told him exactly this: "It's not your fault". He broke down, and so did I. I owe a lot to this movie, like many people probably do. I will always love Robin for what he gave me, a poor kid from Poland.

This movie shall not be touched or remade for eternity

he cries so realistically it´s impossible not to empathize

Those were the tears of a lifetime, the sobs of a little boy desperate for the love of a father. Will found Sean. Beautiful.

Humanity would be saved if we all could hug Robin Williams when our lives got rough

I swear if Robin Williams looked at me like that I would break down crying like a child too. He has the most humane, genuine, kind eyes I've seen.

Dear Mr. Williams. It's not your fault either. Sincerely, every depressed person you have made laugh. Thank you for pulling so many away from the ledge so many times.

This scene makes me cry every single time. It goes beyond the context of his abuse. I remember hearing this for the first time when I was 19 and had just lost my mom to a brutal fight with cancer, and it hit me in just the way it needed to. We blame ourselves for a lot of things, and I think a lot of us are waiting for someone to come around and let us know that it’s not our fault.

I remember Mrs. Howard, my 4th grade teacher told me, “it’s not your fault”, many years ago. I cried uncontrollably like a baby. Things were not great at home. I’ve never told anyone this before. Thank you Mrs Howard All these years later I still don’t believe it though. Years of anxiety and depression, I still can’t escape it.

Good luck finding a therapist this good.

The Kids been waiting his entire life for someone to tell him it wasn't his fault.

One of the most tear inducing scenes I've ever seen Robin was a national treasure

And the follow dialog is so much needed after this scene. "This doesn't violate the doctor patient relationship does it?" "Only if you grab my ass."

He cries like someone who has wanted to cry about a lot of things but was just saving up for one big cry.

He cried like a child who’d been kept from crying for a long, long time.

What really sells this for me is the fact that both Williams and Damon manage to convey the akwardsness or clumsiness that is often there when you take a risk and dare to breach relationel borders we all put up to get closer to another human. Look at Williams when he first decides to tell that "all of that shit" in his journal is not his fault. He's not over confident and super smooth. He's nervous. He knows that he is takikg a chance here, and it's all conveyed with a sublime sublety in his voice and eyes. Meanwhile, Damon is doing an excellent job playing the boy who's still very much using defensive mechanisms to ward off attempts at talking about him. I'm a psychologist and a trained therapist, and this is the most accurate portrayal of situations like this I have ever seen.

My dad was really hard on me. He beat the living crap out of me at the drop of a dime when I was growing up. Pretty bad too. Broken arm, ribs and a cracked head to say the least. I always thought it was because I was being bad, fighting at school or doing rambunctious things. I've forgiven him and we have a great relationship nowadays. Watching this clip helped me realize I was just a fucking kid. It wasn't my fault. But I forgive him. And weirdly in some ways I thank him. I have 5 children (mostly all grown up, I'm 47) and I've never raised my hand to any of them. Sometime bad things can be used for good things. He taught me what not to do.