It's 17 years later, where do you think Will is now?

Well, if he were wise, he would have used his genius intelligence to go and make a lot of money. Chuckie was right. Will was sitting on a winning lottery ticket and would have been foolish to not use it.

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Chazz Michael Michaels IS figure skating! BOOM!

Will is now Edward Snowden.

He changed his name to John Nash, went to work for the NSA after all, went cuckoo, became a homo, and won a Nobel Prize.



Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

The great thing is that what a person feels about these roles in this movie 17 years later is subject to each viewer's outlook.

I love this movie. Can quote lines or hear the music to "Afternoon Delight" and a smile will cross my face. At the end of the movie I didn't question how Will would drive to CA w/o a map?

I just believed he could and that POS car would actually make it safely. I knew he would get there and his soulmate would be free & willing to have a lifetime
relationship.

I didn't sit down and pick apart the plot. I liked the warm and fuzzy feeling I was left with. Just watched it again and it I still felt like I had watched a movie I liked. I am not in the industry so I don't get paid to be a professional viewer.

While reading threads I often read theories and insights that went completely over my head. Things that make me go Hhhmm? Often my opinions are changed about subtle messages. However, I have never changed my opinion of my
enjoyment of a showing.

How one feels about this movie 17 years later depends on what has happened to the viewer in that time? How has their outlook changed? Or something as simple as do they still have friends that are willing to take a bat to someone like Sean's head for said friend?

A lot of factors may have changed that could alter the feelings a viewer has at the end of the movie now. But it's the viewer who has changed, not the movie. I thought I had become cynical but I am glad to see that I am still able to just relax and enjoy a movie without fooling myself into thinking I need to start blogging about the entertainment industry.

Someone above already said that Will was really Edward Snowden, so there goes that! I can't actually see him working for the NSA. He and Skyler probably stayed together for several years, maybe had a kid or two, but her doctor's schedule and non-genius brain got boring. He changed, as people do in those decades.

I say that he got into designing solar and other alternative companies out In California, or maybe back in Mass., gave all his friends jobs and now lives either in the Sierras or Berkshires, off the grid, secretly writing encryption code and helping his new love interest with her hydroponic gardening business. They drive electric cars that his startup company retrofitted for him, raise chickens and are foster parents for abused kids.


Nothing is what it seems. Everything is a test. Rule #1: Don't...get...caught.

I think he probably would have been able to make up with Skylar when he went to see her immediately after the movie finished. However, I can't see that relationship lasting for very long--maybe a few years or so, but then Skylar would have found herself unable to deal with Will's trust issues anymore and walked out.

Would Will have seen other women after that? Yeah probably, and some of them might have lasted longer than him and Skylar. But I don't think he's the kind of person who would have been able to make any romantic relationship work over the long term, really.

Will kind of strikes me as someone who's either going to become huge or someone who'll end up working some dead-end job his entire life. I'd rather see him as the troubled genius working for some big company in some important but largely unseen role.

He probably had a couple of other incidents with the law, but I don't think any of them would have been anything like murder--probably just less serious stuff like driving under the influence or refusing to pay his parking tickets.

I can kinda see him going through a lot of therapy though, because I don't think one year would have been enough for him. No doubt he would have been back to see Sean every now and again until either Sean got too old or he died, and then went to see another who probably didn't do quite as much for him.

Beyond that, I'm not really sure what would have happened with Will. I think generally speaking things would have worked out for him, but I don't think he would have been living a totally happy life either.


This is not Sparta. This is much worse.

Will is alone and wishes he had stayed with Batman.

Car wreck shortly after passing the last bend. The end.