The new Will Smith movie, The Pursuit of Happyness is wrong and not just in how it spells "happyness".

Movies that have hidden and misleading messages bother me and I don't like the underlying messages in this movie. The movie presents an important concept and then stomps all over it. The concept comes when Will Smith's character, Chris Gardner, is opining about Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. He muses that Jefferson called it the "pursuit of happiness" because you could never quite catch it. The running, the chasing, the pursuit would be elusive with the prey remaining just out of reach. The right answer seems to be realizing what is truly important in life, yet how does the movie end the pursuit of happiness? Happiness is achieved when Chris Gardner lands a six-figure commissioned salary brokerage job. The bright and shiny happy people in the movie were the rich. The poor were downtrodden, mentally ill, hostile, and dishonest. The poor guy won't pay you back the $14 he owes you, but the suit will fork over the $5 you gave him for cab fare. The message of the movie was MONEY = HAPPYNESS. The movie conflates two concepts and doesn't distinguish them survival and success. Most of the movie is focused on survival. The movie captures the truly horrific feeling of an empty wallet. Halfway through the show, I was thinking "Hell, I feel this way at home and I didn't have to pay $7.75 to feel poor." I am amazed every day at the thin line between disaster and survival. I see individuals everyday who are walking that tightrope or worse, who have fallen off already and just barely managed to grab on to the tightrope and are now moving hand over hand across the chasm of poverty. Over 90% of the people filing bankruptcy in this country have had one or a combination of these three things happen to them: 1. Lost job or income. 2. Divorce 3. Major medical issues. In the movie, Chris Gardner suffers the first two and it nearly destroys him. He fights against all odds and eventually escapes the poverty. This struggle and display of the human spirit is uplifting in classic underdog fashion. Yet, when Chris gets to the top, he has learned nothing by his near escape from disaster. If he had had the same will and desire and only slightly less talent, this story would have been a tragedy rather than a triumph. Some facts about the "real" Chris Gardner flash upon the screen at the end. In 2006 he sold a minority share in the brokerage he started for a multi-million dollar profit a profit that originates from a host of Chris Gardners slaving away at dead end jobs and who will never see the success of the protagonist. He succeeds wildly, but I couldn't shake the tragedy of all those who didn't have his skills, perseverance, or luck. The movie wanted to create a sense of loss and then have it redeemed through hard work and perseverance the realization of the American Dream. Survival is the American Nightmare. Something is wrong when the United States Bankruptcy Code is the closest thing we have to a National Health Care Plan. Something is wrong when the richest country in the world has a large homeless population. Something is wrong when Pay Day Loan stores are more prevalent than churches. When did you last read the Declaration of Independence? Read it again. Think about how things are now. The seeds of rebellion are sown in economic disparity and unequal treatment. The only happiness that comes from the single-eyed pursuit of wealth is one that is misspelled and misplaced.

The Pursuit of Happyness movie tells about a man who is very hard working to reach his happiness defensively. Chris Gardner is an on and off homeless. At first, he lives with his family and sells portable bone-density scanners to doctors. However, this condition is no longer happy. His financial condition drives him to get a new job. Selling portable-bone density scanner has been very difficult and expensive because of new invention and more valuable than portable bone-density scanner. Because of his financial condition, Linda (his girlfriend) leaves him and moves to New York. Her relatives give her a chance to work at her relatives restaurant. Knowing this fact, Chris Gardner is very sad, but he has no choice because of his condition is also very dolorous. He asks Linda not to bring Christopher (their son). He will live with his son. When he sells the scanner, he meets manager Dean Witter. He is success impress him by solving the Rubiks Cube in short time while they are on the cab. Because he has no money, and Dean Witter has been left, he tried to escape and run to the subway. He did it, but he loses his scanner. Chris Gardner is in jail because of parking tickets. When he out of jail, he goes Dean Witter company and he is offered the internship. His financial condition is back down when his bank account cut his income for taxes, he and his son become homeless. They try to find homeless shelter and have to in line. Because of the room is limit, Chris Gardner makes his work time become efficient. During his work time, he takes his son into a daycare. When his work is over, he takes his son to go to a homeless shelter. These condition always the same in a few days. In turning point, they stay in the bathroom at subway station. After this condition, he maximizes his time. Competing with other competitor to get the internship stockbroker, he makes his time more and more efficient. He works more than the other competitors, jump over the line. As a result, after six months in the training, his managers call him and offered the position. This makes him very happy and run to his sons daycare, hugs him and walks with happiness. At the end, Chris become rich and has his own brokerage firm. The Most Powerful Scene All of the scenes are told about struggling. How we have to achieve our dream through many processes and we cannot cut it easily. We cannot beef and must to rush. Go for it. When his girlfriend leaves him, he can take the risk. Considering he has no job at that time and selling portable bone-density scanner is very difficult, he lives with his son. As a result, he stays on the bathroom at the subway station. That is like turning point, when he has to find a homeless shelter and maximize his work time to get in line for a limited room. As a father, he is very a good father, responsible, and certifiable. Work under pressure, because of maximizing and to make his work time efficient, he still vacate his time for playing with his son. Knowing that might be his son is bored and there is no one except him that can make him happy. They play basket while selling the scanner in the downtown. In the homeless shelter, he is still taking care of his son; taking him bath, and warm him with blanket. This is the most powerful scene based on my opinion, as a father. The Affecting Scene People might be think that it is impossible to make their dream comes true. They are wrong. It is because they have not great effort in reach their dream. They have not push their willingness yet to make it materialized. Chris Gardner, play role as a father and the dreamer, work like hard-fought. He goes to work, no food and no drink, only make a phone call to his client. After work he has to take his son in a daycare and then go

to homeless shelter in line. He has to make it, because it will get them stay homeless and no place to go, no place to get a rest. It is his daily life in a few days (or may be for months). Every person has their own dream. The matter is only how they still keep their dream comes true and how long they can hold out the pressure and the way how to make it. There is one wise word that I still rely on. If you have a dream, keep it in your heart, dont let the people break your dream, then reach it until you can smiling cry how you reach it. The Movie and Relation with My Life This plot makes me realized that my effort to reach my dream have not total yet. I still keep beefing and hopeless. It is like reflection, how my effort to get my dream has to be more and more powerful. I cannot stay and just keep beefing. I have to move on and dont let the people break my dream. Perhaps, my dream is not as big as Chris Gardner. The condition is different. He is a man and a father who is keeping fight for his happiness. Fight with his real condition. While me, I am a student who is still manage her future. That is why it is different. However, although it is different, dream is dream and we have to make comes true. I have been fight when I was in previous school to continue my study in a college. I win. However, it is not the end of everything. It is only the start of everything. I have managed my dream and the target when I will reach it. For now, it is only the process that I have to keep it running, running on its track. Sometimes, there are many things that block my way. Sometimes, I fall down. Here, there is no one can stand alone. It is needed a people around to support, to remind, and accompany me. Most of all, the willingness of heart, is decide it. The Main Message As always mentioned above, although dream is a dream, if you want to make it comes true, and then goes for it. We cannot and may not hopeless, beefing, and tired to get it. Perhaps, you can take a rest for awhile, enjoy the time, but then you have to run again faster and faster. Besides, you have to be responsible in everything. Sometimes, taking risk is important, but you have to be responsible as well. You have to know and accept all of the consequences. There is no something impossible, if you really mean it. It is only you have not put a great effort in it. The Main Values The main values are; you have to be persistence, risk taker, responsible, creative, and rational. Chris Gardner will not get his dream if he is not persistence. He always goes to work think creatively to get his client until they can meet his high potential value client. He is also risk-taker, the car attack him because he wants to run quickly to get his scanner that is taken by strange man who call the scanner by time machine. He is also responsible as a father. He always takes of his son, although during a day he always works and works, but after his work is over, he takes his son from a daycare and gets him into homeless shelter. He also thinks rationally when he chose the upper list of his client to maximize his time. When he gets the approval of meeting time, the other manager asks him to park his car. As a result, he gets parking tickets and he cannot make the meeting time. Here, it can say that we cannot hopeless although the luck is not in our side. We have to get up and run.