From zero to a million

Rating: 9/10 (17 September 2018)

It takes hard work and determination to achieve happiness but it can be done. The movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" starring Will Smith as Chris Gardner and his son Jaden Smith 5-year-old Christopher Jr. The film tells the truly inspiring story of a single father struggling to make ends meet, while living in San Francisco. Gardner finds himself struggling with homelessness as a result of being kicked out of his home for failing to pay rent. With less than $22 in his pocket, Gardner is forced to spend sleepless nights finding ways to keep his son safe and trying to get ahead in life. From the moment the film begins we get this sad and gloomy feeling from the colors in the visuals and the way the scenes are shot. At one point Chris is forced to spend the night with his son in a public bathroom of a Bay Area transit station. Regardless of his daily struggles Gardner uses his captivating attitude to land him a spot as an intern at a successful firm. One of the greatest scenes in the film is when Chris takes a cab ride with a businessman. The business man is trying to solve a Rubik's cube but can't seem to figure it out and says it's "impossible," but of course Chris proves him wrong by solving it right before his eyes and in just a few minutes. He impresses the man and shows intelligence, which makes him a stronger candidate for the internship. Despite his disadvantages, Chris shows everyone what a hard worker he is and is willing to be. He wins the internship that he had initially been struggling with since it required long hours with no pay, but that led him to come up with more ways to be efficient. Ultimately he then went on to create his own multimillion dollar brokerage firm, showing us how it is possible to lose everything and get it back 10 times better as long as we put in the effort and work for it.