The Pursuit of Happiness

Rating: Null/10 (6 April 2007)

The ultimate portrait of human suffering, the epitome of Murphy's Law, a human dartboard of life, and a human version of Balthtazar..that's what this character is in the film. This film is the type of crowd-pleasing Oscar-fodder that Hollywood has been churning out of the machine for ions. All Chris Gardner wants to do is find a job, have a decent place to live and raise his son. He's a nice, hard-working, nose-to-the-grindstone kind of moral hero who goes through every agonizing thing imaginable in a job-less world of the early 80's big city. Extremely well acted by Will Smith as Gardner, a salesman who desperately wants to make an internship happen for a brokerage firm. What he faces, possible poverty and the downs and more downs of making ends meet when there's no income lining Chris' pockets is shown in this film. Audiences have ate these kinds of films for years watching a man persevere against so many odds with a humongous stacked deck which seems to tower over Chris like a dark, looming thundercloud that doesn't like him.