The Pursuit of Happyness Film Review

The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness is a movie based one a true story about a man called Chris Gardner. The main theme in this movie is the American dream and it is a common dream that everyone share. It is the dream of having success and happiness. To fulfill your American dream you need to have the abilities and the courage to achieve your dream. Chris Gardner is a fabulous example for pursing his American dream. The storyline in “The Pursuit of Happyness” is about how fare Chris Gardner is willing to pursuit to achieve happiness.

Chris Gardner is a salesman who sells bone density scanner for living, but he soon finds out that no body will buy it, because it is a luxury devise in the medical business.

His wife Linda leaves him with their son Christopher, because he isn’t able to make decent living. One day he gets inspired to become a stockbroker, after he meets a very wealthy and happy stockbroker.

Chris Gardner and his son sleep in shelters for homeless people, because they can’t afford to pay the rent.

At the internship Chris is competing with 19 other interns to become a stockbroker. He doesn’t have a great education and on top of that he has less time on his hands especially since he is a single parent with a young son. He therefor must strive harder, work harder, work smarter, and utilize his time wisely. Thanks to his abilities and diligence he finally achieves his American dream. The pursuit of Happyness is a very typical American movie, not necessarily in a bad context. It is a movie that highly values the American values for an example The American Dream and Capitalism.

I personally also believe that America is a country, which has the platform to achieve your dream as long as you are willing to fight for it and you also have the abilities to succeed it. Those who are lazy will forever remain in their poverty and it is no one’s fault but their own. It is the advantage of capitalism and the American political ideology; one does not have to remain in their poverty for life. If they are willing to work hard, work long, and endure, then everybody can become successful. Chris Gardner understood this and he is now a great living example. Even though he was less educated, didn’t have wealthy circle of acquaintances, had less time, and had no money, he nonetheless rose to the occasion and persevered. He fulfilled his American dream; He started from being nobody and ended up being somebody, a truly inspiring person.