For as long as we’ve been conscious, humans have been spending all of their lives making decision after decision only with the notion that it will bring us happiness or pleasure. Despite all of our efforts, however, happiness remains elusive and mysterious. The pursuit of...
Introduction The Pursuit of Happiness is a truly inspirational movie that focuses on overcoming hardships in life to achieve happiness and success. The movie revolves around the life of Chris Gardener who invests all of his money on making portable density scanners. Although these scanners...
Gabriele Muccino’s The Pursuit of Happyness explores the concept of one’s attempt at reconciling both the desire to act independently with their need for security. In this specific example, Chris Gardner — the father of the family — demonstrates his independence by proving that you...
The film “The Pursuit of Happyness”, directed by Gabrielle Muccino, tells the true-life experiences of Chris Gardner who faces many hard obstacles. He struggles to overcome these obstacles in order to create a better life for not only him but for his son as well...
Life is a struggle for single father Chris Gardner in 1981, San Francisco. Evicted from their apartment, he and his young son find themselves with no place to go. Jumping around town, barely surviving by selling a 40-pound device known as a “bone density scanner”,...
There is a short scene in which Will Smith plays basketball with his son and tells him that he will probably not be very good at basketball in the future so he should not spend too much time playing basketball after his son says he...
The Pursuit of Happyness is a biographical movie that is based on Chris Gardner ‘s life in his dark time. This story tells about when he is a homeless and a single parent. The film was published in December 15th 2006 under Columbia Pictures associating...
In ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’ I believe Will Smith did an exceptional performance in his performing abilities. The movie exceeded the action and romantic films Will Smith is known for. He illustrated the position of Chris Gardner, trouble, struck down man dealing with the most...
‘The Pursuit of Happyness’ is based on the true story of Chris Gardner whose struggled to keep his young son in good living conditions. The beginning scene displays the phrase ‘Pursuit of Happyness’ as noted by way of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence...
Mark Kingwall wrote the article In Pursuit of Happiness in his 1998 book In Pursuit of Happiness: Better Living from Plato to Prozac. In writing this article, he explains that even though it seems the search for happiness can be futile, it is something that...
Pursuit of Happiness Pursuit of Happiness is about a family living check by check, just trying to get by. The husband Chris, that sells bone scanner machines. He had bought into these machines, thinking they would be a big hit, but not knowing that not...
In Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi, and The Pursuit of Happyness, directed by Gabriel Muccino, the viewers meet characters who are defined by their status in life and throughout the course of the films they break the barriers holding them back, to become great...
In the film The Pursuit of Happyness, there is significant evidence of social stratification and inequality represented throughout. It is clear from the beginning that Chris and his family are part of the lower working class, eventually living in absolute poverty as they didn’t have...
Movies based on true stories are always captivating. Movies based on true stories that also exemplify positive aspects of society are even more captivating. The Pursuit of Happyness, a film about the story of Chris Gardner, exemplifies a feel-good story that many individuals yearn for,...
