MOVIE : THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

DATE: 22 FEBRUARY 2011

TIME: 8.30PM

LOCATION: DEWAN CERUN

How to happy?Is happiness achievable?Is the "Pursuit of Happiness " is an empty slogan?All these questions can be found through this movie.

 Pursuit of Happiness is a 2006 American biographical drama film based on Chris Gardner's nearly one-year struggle with homelessness. Directed by Gabriele Muccino, the film features Will Smith as Gardner, an on-and-off-homeless salesman-turned stockbroker. Smith's son which Jaden Smith co-stars, making his film debut as Gardner's son Christopher Jr.

This story was a story about a man named Christopher Gardner. He has invested heavily in a device known as "Bone Density Scanner". He feels like he has made these devices. However, they do not sell as they are marginally better than the current technology at a much higher price. As Gardner tries to figure out out to sell them , his wife leaves him, he loses everything with he loses his house, bank account and credit card. This circumstances had forced him to  live out in the streets with his son. Gardner is desperate to find a steady job, he takes on a job as a stockbroker, but before he can receive pay, he needs to go through 6 months of training and in mean while to sell his devices.

After watched this movie, my feeling had moved by the role played as Gardner. Everyone have the chance to experience happiness in their life but to achieve it, they must through many difficulties and obstacle that might stop them from have it. Based on this movie, happiness is not about being rich by having a luxury car, home or etc but we feel the happiness when we receive a new that we had been accepted to work at the company after struggle for few months in hard life. It is hard actually for human to experience the true meaning of happiness because sometime happiness that we always got from time to time is not a real happiness. We smile when we in happiness but inside we knew that we just pretending to the world like we really in happiness. 

"The Pursuit of Happiness" also teach us as human being, we can do anything to survive in this world even we need to sleep in the toilet and don't have money in our pocket as long as we are stay together with someone that we love and appreciate so much. Gardner still can manage his problem with his son that always stay behind him that might give him inspiration and spirit to continue living as he knew that he need to work harder in order to find more money to give his son a better life. He don't want his son have the same life like him as we can see that Gardner always teach his son about the world and encourage him to not give up on what his son already plan for the future. 

From the movie, I also believes that not everyone in this world shared a same meaning of happiness in the life. For Gardner, by being accepted to work was his happiness that he never feel before. Everybody has their own definition of happiness and only them know what is happiness. Some people believe by having money, higher education and been known in society can bring happiness but not for me. My happiness is being together with my family and can see them everyday in my life. Money, car, big house or other cannot compete with my own definition of happiness. Just believe that when we pursuit the happiness, we will get it as we work hard to get it. It is not possible for people to feel the happiness as they know how to reach it.