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Introducing the film
The pursuit of happiness is a movie about Chris Gardener, who is a struggling salesman who takes custody of his son after his wife leaves them. The movie stars Will Smith, with co-stars Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, among many others. Will Smith, who plays Chris Gardner, is a good man deep down and just wants to do the right things in life. But everything seems to fall apart at the same time. Chris ruins his family´s financials by losing his current job.
The pursuit of happiness is a biographical drama movie from 2006, based on Chris Gardner´s one-year struggle with being homeless. The movie is directed by Gabriele Muccino, the screenplay by Steven Conrad is based on the best-selling memoir with the same name written by Gardner with Quincy Troupe. The pursuit of happyness is based on true events. Although, not all parts of the movie happened in real life.
The setting
The movie is set in San Francisco in 1981. The setting in the film shows a time when Chris Gardner has poor finances, not house rooms and do not have a job. He’s homeless, with a son he’ll be able to take care of. Chris Gardner gets an internship, which later gives him a permanent job. This makes the film seem more realistic.
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The characters
A plot summary
Chris Gardner´s story began in San Francisco in 1981. At this time, Chris lived with his wife, Lina, and his only son, Christopher. Chris and Linda spent their whole life savings on portable bone density scanners, to sell these machines for a living. He couldn’t expect too much from the scanners, as it turned out that many doctors believed his scanners were just unnecessary conveniences. Selling at least two was barely enough to finance their daily needs. The problem was that Chris wasn´t able to sell any scanner for a while, this made it even harder to fulfill the living costs like the day-care fee and parking tickets. His wife is not satisfied with their current situation, and later in the movie she decides to leave his husband and son.
Topics and theme
This movie tells its viewers about the struggle of someone building themselves up from nobody, to somebody. At the beginning of the movie, the main character, Chris Gardner, is a struggling salesman who barely manages the everyday life. But in the end of the movie, he has become a stock broker, and he built his own firm.
Chris Gardner´s hard work symbolizes the American dream. The American dream is the spirit of the Americans who want to realize their fame and wealth trough really hard work and effort. The message in this movie is that you should never give up on something you really want in life.
Conclusions
The pursuit of happyness is an inspiring movie, it makes you want success in life Although the movie was inspiring, it is not my kind of movie. I would recommend this movie to others.
