Friday, December 22, 2006

Pursuit of Happyness

This is a phenomenal flick that I saw yesterday with "0" dollars spent on it. I used the difference pass that I got while watching DaVinci Code at the same movie hall sometime in May 2006. Since I went around with a colleague of mine, I did not spend on commuting as well.

Based on real life incidents, the movie is about a man named Chris Gardener, who is rendered homeless, and then makes it to the highest offices from humble beginnings.

Finally, within a decade's time, he establishes(/d) a stock broker firm of his own and makes it successful. I understood two things from this flick: If you want something so badly, one should work to get it. And, there is no point is bragging that you can achieve something, you dream something big, etc, until you work to get there.

The climax, where Will Smith expresses his happiness narrating that it was the moment in his life called "happiness", it was moving. There is also a mention of Thomas Jeffersen, stating "pursuing happiness" instead of being "happy". It is correlated that happiness has to be pursued and is difficult to achieve - this is truth.

It is made a point in the movie [and in the real life of Chris Gardener] to show that if you dream of something, don't let anything to stop you from going there.

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