Uplifting but Ideological in essence

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2006)

This is a very good movie and I would recommend it to everyone. It is the beautiful, dramatic, and romantic story of a father and son struggling with every day's life problems of present past and future.
I think is very well written, and although it was inspired by a true story there are some faults with the plot which affects the final product, especially in regards to its relation to the 'real'. I personally discovered a hidden ideological message (nothing wrong with it what so ever), that is, you have to be efficient like a machine in a world of deadly competition. The situation surrounding the main character is one of constant stress. He is under perennial judgement by all the institutions surrounding him. He seems to be constantly under assessment, in often hidden ways. For example, you can especially see it in some scenes during the internship, when his supervisors ask him to do things to test how good, how efficient, how multitasky he is. That maybe possible however the facts shouldn't be represented in such a unilateral perspective and uncritical way. I would have appreciated a more thoughtful representation, so that the 'American way of life' doesn't come out as the only possible path to 'happiness'....especially in a time when American is brought to dramatically recognise the existence of culturally/politically different agendas which do not just disappear.