The Pursuit of Happiness

Rating: Null/10 (19 March 2011)

The Pursuit of Happiness This movie is about a man named Christopher Gardner(Will Smith) and his son Christopher(Jaden Smith).He ended up being homeless with his son after his girlfriend left him(Linda) Thandie Newton because she could not take them being without and broke. The theme of this movie to me is that no matter what you go through you can overcome it and become better,and it is also about Chris wanting to belong somewhere in the world.This movie is based on a true story, and he thought he could come up in the world by selling density scanners to make money and that fell right through the roof and him and his son ends up getting put out of their house and into the streets and that forced him to go and have to go a church shelter everyday but, he just goes to show also when you think you have a friend how that friend can turn their back he had a friend he thought the man that he let borrow fourteen dollars and when he really needed he could not get it back,and when thought he was doing o.k. in his life the bank took what little money he had saved up. Could you imagine having something that devastating happening to you,but he was strong determined black man to come up in the world and do better for him and his son but after having an interview with this internship and finding out their was no money coming in he really got down on his luck but faith was by his side and not only got the internship he got the job and made a life for him and his son.The cinematic element that I see is about the music in the movie especially, when he goes to church and they are singing this song and he just gets little christopher(Jaden Smith) and start hugging him that really shows love for his son and all he had bundled up in the inside of him people could look at him everyday and never tell that he was homeless.This movie tells just what a homeless person goes through and even difficult times when you have a child to see to, but he did not let him stop him for going for what he wanted. He girlfriend did not try to come back for her son or the dad.This movie does not only show about a person being homeless and working for what you want but it shows love and not only what love is but what love does when you really love a person especially your child.