The Pursuit of Happyness is a movie based one a true story about a man called Chris Gardner. The main theme in this movie is the American dream and it is a common dream that everyone share. It is the dream of having success and happiness. To fulfill your American dream you need to have the abilities and the courage to achieve your dream. Chris Gardner is a fabulous example for pursing his American dream. The storyline in “The Pursuit of Happyness” is about how fare Chris Gardner is willing to pursuit to achieve happiness. Chris Gardner is a salesman who sells bone density scanner for living, but he soon finds out that no body will buy it, because it is a luxury devise in the medical business. His wife Linda leaves him with their son Christopher, because he isn’t able to make decent living. One day he gets inspired to become a stockbroker, after he meets a very wealthy and happy stockbroker. Chris Gardner then meets a manager, Jay Twistle, for the stockbroker company, and Chris Gardner impresses him by solving a rubrik’s cube, which Mr. Twistle thought was impossible to solve. While Chris Gardner is in the internship in the stockbroker company, he faces many struggles and obstacles, in his path to become a stockbroker. Chris Gardner and his son sleep in shelters for homeless people, because they can’t afford to pay the rent. At the internship Chris is competing with 19 other interns to become a stockbroker. He doesn’t have a great education and on top of that he has less time on his hands especially since he is a single parent with a young son. He therefor must strive harder, work harder, work smarter, and utilize his time wisely. Thanks to his abilities and diligence he finally achieves his American dream.
The pursuit of Happyness is a very typical American movie, not necessarily in a bad context. It is a movie that highly values the American values for an example The American Dream and Capitalism. I personally also believe