The Pursuit of Happyness

review

Will Smith doesn’t seem the likeliest candidate to play a desperate or struggling man. You’ll not see Smith uses his gun and shot a criminal or uses his gloves to boxing. In this movie, ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’, Smith doesn’t just wear a few flecks of gray in his hair. He acts as a man who awakens to the reality that life sometimes wicks.

Genre : biography/drama

Director : Gabriele Muccino

Writer : Steve Conrad

Date of Production : December, 2006

Stars : Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton

Length : 120 minutes

In The Pursuit of Happyness, we don’t just know Chris’ dreams. We know his bank account, his tally of parking tickets, his taxes. Chris is forced to survive by other measures, and what this means is that job is really geared to people who’ve already attained middle-class solidity. Chris has to pretend to be something he’s not, and the power of Smith’s acting is in the gentle, mounting fury with which he absorbs a hundred misperceptions and slights.

This movie should be a lesson for some people. It was somewhat sad and very touching. Shows that if you try really hard, you can accomplish your dreams—such a great message for children to see. If you work for what you get, no matter how much you have, it’s that much sweeter because you earned it. Work hard and never let anyone tell you can’t do it.

It’s a good movie!