Pursuit of Money

Rating: 1/10 (3 May 2009)

This movie is propaganda just like seven pounds! Even though people say it is a true story I am sure it has many distortions to support the message of greed. This movie is basically saying from the beginning that money equates to happiness. I mean Will Smith walks by and he sees a bourgeoisie stock broker and he says that person is so happy I want to be like him and then they show how it is apparently so sad to live in poverty in America. Well this movie is not true because money does not equate to happiness people are happy in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal even when they are really poor. People in America have more suicides then in any other place.
It is obvious if you watch this movie closely that it has the message of equating wealth with happiness. Well why didn't Chris Gardner just get a real job instead? There are plenty of jobs out there other then stock broker that he could of got six months earlier or that he could of gotten instead of trying to sell those scanners he invested himself in.
A stock broker is not a real job - a stock broker is somebody who professes in "buying and selling shares through the stock market" which is basically another way of saying I steal money from the people who do real work well I sit back and live off of their efforts. When I say real work I mean the people who are mining ores out of the mountains, doing construction, farming, engineering products, etc. Stock brokers steal money from those workers who are treated poorly. Do you how many homeless people would be off the streets right now if Chris Gardner would give up just a small portion of his 165 million dollars? I mean there is no reason he needs more then one million dollars to support himself and a large family.
One thing someone is seriously going to have to explain to me though is why the heck did he keep selling people those scanners if he knew he was ripping people off and it wasn't working very well? He should have put his sales work aside and get a real job I mean there are thousands of them available. I am sorry but I have no reason to give this more then a 1/10.