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The pursuit of happyness directed by Gabrielle Muccino is very good movie inspired by true story of salesman Chris Gardner (Will Smith), and his five years old son Christopher (Jaden Smith). The two main actors Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith were the best actors for the movie. The movie place in San Francisco in 1981, is a 2006 American biographical drama film. This movie relates to single man Chris Gardner (Will Smith) salesman struggle with his son by looking for better life, happiness. I recommend this movie to anyone to watch because is true story full of love, emotional, sadness, funning, educative, hope, and happiness.
The pursuit of happyness is true story movie about salesman Gardner (Will Smith) who put all his money on bone-density
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This movie was touching because I can feel myself in it. When I think about my beginning in this country which I didn’t have family and cannot speak English, it was stuff for me. I can feel what Chris Gardner was going through. I cried by watching this movie because is true people suffer, and they get through a lot. The music at the beginning of the movie relates with the story. The music was emotional; you can feel the sadness. The movie was funning and emotional: It funning when Smith was running to get his machine stolen from guitar lady and later the man who thought the scanner machine was a time machine. When he run to get the coffee to his boss. The movie was funning and makes me laugh.
The pursuit of happiness is full of love and educative. Gardner was the best father to his son. Even they become homeless, it didn’t change his love to his son. I believe, he run all the time to get to the shelter so his son can eat, sleep, and even bath him. He took a good care of his son. This show how much he loves his son. I love this statement from Gardner is educative: “Don’t never let someone tell you, you can’t do something, people tell you, you can’t do something when they can’t do it. If you want something go get it period”. The story is educative; I learn hard working get pay by the
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Gardner pursing of happiness was having money. I know money is important in live but is not quiet is only give you happiness. Some people have money but they are not happy. The needs something else to make them happy. I was not totally agreeing with this part of the movie been just focus on pursuit of money is happiness. I laugh about when Gardner scanner machine was stolen and I know is part of his life but I think is little boring it comes over, over.
The life can be struggle sometime. The pursuit of happiness movie was one of true story about struggle to find better life. This movie so emotional, powerful of love, hope, educative, happiness. I give 8/10 for this movie and recommend to everyone to watch it. I state you will not regret it to watch
This movie was able to demonstrate that when someone is diagnosed with a disorder in a family especially if is a child how it can affect the family. The parents could have more attention towards the child and forget that they have other kids that need them as well. There could also be tension between the mother and father because they might want to deal with everything a different way. The whole family just needs to be united and accommodate to have a new lifestyle where everyone is included in the
“Happy” would have you believe that happiness comes from “doing what you love”, and though the ideal is nice it holds some questions in regards to specifics. While “Happy” provided some truly breathtaking rhetorical strategies, much of its evidence lacked explanation in terms of context, and discussion in regards to relevance. With a lack of explanation comes a lack of connection to the film’s intended audience, which in the case of American viewers potentially causes disjoint communication of claims. Perhaps this is attributed to a limited run-time, and that an hour and fifteen minutes of film was not enough to go in enough depth on the evidence. Suffice to say, Belic did a fairly adequate job in his film. Had he given background and clarification to the personal accounts used in the film, his claim of “doing what you love leads to happiness” would be infinitely
This paper will include the analysis of the movie Hope Floats. It will start with a short summary of the movie describing the characters and the plot. It will then discuss the family dynamics that are shown in the movie based on the class discussions and the readings. It will also include a variety of issues that are shown throughout the movie. This paper will discuss three key family system’s issues that includes the family concepts, assessing one from Bowen’s concepts, one from Minuchin’s concepts, and one from General Systems Theory/Anderson and Sabatelli concepts. There are many different scenes and examples in this movie that will give a better understanding of the many different family dynamics, family issues, and family system concepts.
It is then, when Gatsby emerged from F. Scott Fitzgerald. A true character of 1920’s America, the parties, the young-money, the helplessly in love, the pursuit of happiness. Darrin McMahon’s “In Pursuit of Unhappiness” explores the topic of seeking felicity and encountering barriers that we would not preoccupy ourselves with if we existed in an otherwise empathetic society. “Secular culture since the 17th century made "happiness," in the form of pleasure or good feeling, not only morally acceptable but commendable in and of itself.” (para. 4). As this quote exemplifies, there is a cultural notion of happiness being expected to be our default state of being. Due to this ingrown conception, we are riddled with the demand of forcing our path to contentment, as Gatsby, a character dumbfounded by a love he thought unmatched with a young debutante,
The philosopher Aristotle once wrote, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” This famous quote compels people to question the significance of their joy, and whether it truly represents purposeful lives they want to live. Ray Bradbury, a contemporary author, also tackles this question in his book, Fahrenheit 451, which deals heavily with society's view of happiness in the future. Through several main characters, Bradbury portrays the two branches of happiness: one as a lifeless path, heading nowhere, seeking no worry, while the other embraces pure human experience intertwined together to reveal truth and knowledge.
This movie was inspiring and encouraging to anyone who is struggling with something. Overcoming his controversies in life became the main point of the movie. Knowing that this movie was based upon a true story inspires the people even more.
Since the beginning of the American Dream, Americans have idealized the journey towards happiness. One thing people do not realize, however, is that the journey requires hard work and honesty. Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), the main character of Citizen Kane (1941), directed by Orson Welles, was unable to learn this through the humble happiness of childhood in relative poverty. As he grows up in a very privileged atmosphere, he views everyone as forces that are easily controllable, and the journey towards happiness as easy. This view irretrievably cost him his opportunity for lifelong contentment. Both the storyline and the film techniques used by Welles show the futility of striving for complete control. Welles also uses this movie as an allegory to the careless luxury of the 1920s and consequential fall into the Great Depression in the 1930s.
The American Dream is said to be realised through hard work and perseverance ; it is ostensibly a reachable goal for anyone who chooses to exercise their ‘inalienable right’ to the ‘pursuit of Happiness.’ This ambiguous phrase, ‘the pursuit of Happiness’ was originally inserted into the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson and is a clear and overriding concern in The Great Gatsby. In the 1920s, when the novel is set, America was experiencing a newfound level of prosperity; the economy was booming and the possibility of gaining wealth became an achievable reality. As a result, the pursuit of happiness in The Great Gatsby is far from the founding fathers’ initial intentions and instead, in this new context, Fitzgerald demonstrates the confusion of happiness with money and social standing. American ideals were replaced with a fixation to gather material wealth regardless of consequence, and success no longer required hard work. Fitzgerald clearly depicts this mutated pursuit of happiness through the setting and characterisation in the novel. Revolutionary Road similarly reflects this altered American pursuit through the naivety and self-delusion of the characters and their actions.
In the two non-fiction pieces, “Skiing with the Dalai Lama” and “An Account of Happiness”, they state similar beliefs of happiness. In both they show things that gave happiness for a short period of time. But both show something that is will give happiness more than those...
Atwood’s “Happy Endings” retells the same characters stories several times over, never deviating from clichéd gender roles while detailing the pursuit of love and life and a happy ending in the middle class. The predictability of each story and the actions each character carries out in response to specific events is an outline for how most of us carry on with our lives. We’re all looking for the house, the dog, the kids, the white picket fence, and we’d all like to die happy.
Requiem for a Dream in my point of view was exceptional. It was depressing but to be honest that was the point of the movie. When beginning to watch this movie people should make sure their emotions are on neutral because if upset it can make things worse. I really enjoyed how it brought all the elements a film need to create a unique production. I definitely need to see a few more of Aronofsky's films. Overall, the film had a profound impact on me. I honestly learned a lot and even though drugs are not a part of my life I learned that deep within a drug addict there is a reason why they walk the road of self-destruction. I really enjoyed it even though it was depressing, and I would recommend this film to anyone who hasn't
People are entitled to happiness and have the ability to pursue it. Many people don’t get to achieve true happiness because they are blinded by the thought that true happiness comes from materialistic wants. The American dream is bended and deformed by society's point of view. Everyone has a different point of view. For some the American dream consists of living a lavishing life filled with money, materials, and power. Other they view the American dream as being able to have inner peace, love, and friendship. In the Novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, each protagonist desired to achieve true happiness. For example in the eyes were watching god Janie only desired love and knowing that she is valued as a person, and not look at as something lower than a mule. As for Gatsby in The Great Gatsby where he craved the love from daisy. Both craved the similar loves yet, both came from two different sides, where Gatsby was rolling in dough and doing dirty work to gain money, as for Janie she worked hard to get closer to her dream.
Every character in the novel has moments of feeling happy and endures a moment where they believe that they are about to achieve their dreams. Naturally everyone dreams of being a better person, having better things and in 1920’s America, the scheme of get rich quick. However each character had their dreams crushed in the novel mainly because of social and economical situations and their dream of happiness becomes a ‘dead dream’ leading them back to their ‘shallow lives’ or no life at all.
First of all, I was touched by the following statement “ You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You can swear, curse the fates, regret everything you ever did but when it comes to the end. You have to let it go”. Actually, I was in a gloomy mood before I watched this film, something really grieved happened and I was lost and confused. I cursed the fate and blame everyone and everything include myself. Nevertheless, the word “let it go” helped me lay my burdens down and I understood that something I had to accept truth which had happened and let it
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