“The Pursuit of happyness”
Monday, January 15th, 2007
“Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something.; You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something? Go get it. Period.”
Chris Gardner
What do you do to fulfill your dreams? What are the things that you think would really make you happy? Are you willing to sacrifice everything for your dream?
“The Pursuit of Happyness” is one movie that would really inspire everyman, and definitely warmed one’s heart.
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman in little needed medical bone density scanners.. his wife toiled in double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. His wife leaves him because of this choice, but Chris clings to this dream with his son even when the odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father and son struggle through a lot of difficulties like homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall punishing despair in a quest that would make
Gardner a respected millionaire.
Some would think that the character of Chris Gardner gets beaten down so much that the film became totally unbelievable.
Gardner ’s fight is everyman’s fight… to remain true to his material objectives without sacrificing that which really matters to him– his trusting little shadow.
I think we must see this film for us to be inspired and do whatever our hearts desired to do.. a whole lot of our “kababayan” in
Gardner ’s situation can’t do what he did. They can’t break the cycle of poverty. They never get off the street. But this is the story of one man who made it, and Will Smith(plays
Gardner ) does him justice.
At the end of the film.. I guess, even a recalcitrant scrooge may sniff back a few salty droplets.
