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Joy The Movie Analysis
Have you ever had an idea, that you thought would make the world an easier place to not only live in, but to also clean and take care of your family. If so then you are exactly like the main character Joy Mangano in the movie Joy. In this movie, Joy faces many problems at home and with the people she works with for producing and wholesaling the mop she makes to make cleaning up after her family easier. The movie starts when Joy is working at a normal job with a big lower middle class family to support. Her dad in the beginning get divorced to his second wife and starts dating this rich lady named Trudy. As a welcome to the family, Trudy had everybody on her sailboat for a day. While they were on the boat, Joy dropped a bottle of wine and while …show more content…
In the movie, Joy was very poor at first, so when she first approached her mop designs, she used her daughter's crayons and paper and she got ideas from things in her daughter's room, such as the endless loop of rope that is on her mop that was inspired by a dolls hair. Also Trudy stopped giving her money so she needed to take out a second mortgage on her house on top of being over 500,000 dollars in debt, Gerhart the man that ran the manufacturing plant that made the parts for her mops was stealing from her (both molds and money), and she had to get over the loss of her grandmother Mimi who was the person who believed the most in her and Mimi was the one who pushed her to be a better version of herself. She overcame these by starting to sell more and more mops off the QVC because she took over the place of the man who didn’t know how to use her mop, contacting many bosses of Gerhart and discovering he was lying to her so she made him pay her back by having his boss sign a contract and pay her back the money he scammed her out of, and the loosing of her grandmother was sad, but it gave her the power to show people that deserved to be respect and not to mess with her. Some of the people that helped were her Mimi and her daughter Cristy they helped her because they both always believed in Joy and supported

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