The Pursuit of Happiness. Commented by José Rene Alvarez

The Pursuit of Happyness

Is an American film of 2006 directed by Gabriele muccino and based on the story of Chris Gardner, the main role is played by Will Smith,

Actors:   • Will Smith    • Jaden Smith   • Thandie Newton   • Brian Howe   • Dan Castellaneta

The story is about a man whose name is Chris Gardner. He invest the family savings in a kind of bone scanners which caused economic problems to his family and in special to his wife (Linda) who leaves him and moves to New York where she has taken a job in a pizza parlor. Their son Christopher stay with Chris because Chris and Linda both know that he will able to take better care of him. Without any money or a wife, but committed to his son, Chris sees a chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, offering a more promising career at the end of a six-month unpaid training period. But he continued with problems in his house because he didn’t pay the rent. In the end the end he entered to the company with a salary and fixed life insurance and he found happyness.

Suddenly you wonder why the phrase ( happyness ) is written with ”y” and not with “I” I don’t know too because is personal to Will Smith and his son, who is part of his life.

I chose this film because in my case my father did the same thing, he had to work really hard in order to give me education, clothes and food. I admire him, some fathers have to do the same, when suddenly his wife died, when his son was born and he has to be mother and father to his son and feed him. This movie is one of my favorites.