Pur Essay
MOVIE REFLECTION PAPER
We were tasked to watch a few movies after class hours from 6-7pm but I couldn’t because I lived very far away from the campus and would have no ride going home at that time but lucky for me, I have already watched the movie when it was released back in 2006. A movie that had a lot of great reviews and chatter, definitely one for the books.
“Will Smith shines in The Pursuit of Happyness, a rags-to-riches tale about love, family, and pursuing the American Dream. Smith portrays Christopher Gardner, a salesman struggling to make ends meet for his wife (Thandie Newton) and son (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith). As the family’s financial problems mount, his wife caves under the pressure and abandons him and their son. Gardner’s luck goes from bad to worse as he and his son are evicted from their home and must survive on the streets of San Francisco. The father and son are forced to move from place to place seeking shelter wherever they can find it, even spending one night in a subway bathroom. Things start looking up for Gardner when he applies for an internship with a stock brokerage firm. Though the internship is unpaid, one of the 20 interns will be chosen to stay with the company full-time. The ambitious salesman battles insurmountable odds to make himself stand out from his competitors in the hopes of landing the position.” (Elliot, 2013)
The movie showed the way of life in that area through the eyes of a father’s determination to be there for his son, to love and provide for him. You could see how Will Smith’s character did everything he can, the right way, to get them by. The movie shows how some people, not only in America but all over the world have it bad. Many have to work so much more to achieve things we take for granted, like food and housing. In this movie, they focused on the positive side of things though, it didn’t have a part where they showed that the characters got into some vices or bad ways to get by like drugs or
We were tasked to watch a few movies after class hours from 6-7pm but I couldn’t because I lived very far away from the campus and would have no ride going home at that time but lucky for me, I have already watched the movie when it was released back in 2006. A movie that had a lot of great reviews and chatter, definitely one for the books.
“Will Smith shines in The Pursuit of Happyness, a rags-to-riches tale about love, family, and pursuing the American Dream. Smith portrays Christopher Gardner, a salesman struggling to make ends meet for his wife (Thandie Newton) and son (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith). As the family’s financial problems mount, his wife caves under the pressure and abandons him and their son. Gardner’s luck goes from bad to worse as he and his son are evicted from their home and must survive on the streets of San Francisco. The father and son are forced to move from place to place seeking shelter wherever they can find it, even spending one night in a subway bathroom. Things start looking up for Gardner when he applies for an internship with a stock brokerage firm. Though the internship is unpaid, one of the 20 interns will be chosen to stay with the company full-time. The ambitious salesman battles insurmountable odds to make himself stand out from his competitors in the hopes of landing the position.” (Elliot, 2013)
The movie showed the way of life in that area through the eyes of a father’s determination to be there for his son, to love and provide for him. You could see how Will Smith’s character did everything he can, the right way, to get them by. The movie shows how some people, not only in America but all over the world have it bad. Many have to work so much more to achieve things we take for granted, like food and housing. In this movie, they focused on the positive side of things though, it didn’t have a part where they showed that the characters got into some vices or bad ways to get by like drugs or