The American Pursuit of Happiness

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The natural law can reveal a very specific meaning to our right to life and the pursuit of happiness. While painting, Gardner is greeted by two policemen at his doorstep, who take him to the station, stating he has to pay for the numerous parking tickets he has accumulated.

Some people, however, aren't even sure what their values are. A shallow sea of yellow smiley faces, gurus, and purveyors of kitchen-table have strip-mined the science, extracted a lot of fool's gold, and stormed the marketplace with guarantees to annihilate your worry, stress, anguish, dejection, and even ennui.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Meaning

Directed bythe film features as Gardner, a homeless salesman. Smith's son co-stars, making his film debut as Gardner's son, Christopher Jr. The screenplay by is based on the best-selling of the same name written by Gardner with. The film was released on December 15, 2006 by. For his performance, Smith was nominated for an and a for Best Actor. The unusual of the film's title comes from a that Gardner sees on the wall outside the daycare facility his son attends. The scanners play a vital role in his life. While he is able to sell most of them, the time lag between the sales and his growing financial demands enrage his already bitter and alienated wife Linda, who works as a hotel maid. The financial instability increasingly erodes their marriage, in spite of them caring for Christopher Jr. While Gardner is trying to sell one of the scanners, he meets Jay Twistle, a manager forand impresses him by solving a during a taxi ride. After Jay leaves, Gardner lacks money to pay the fare and chooses to run instead, causing the driver to angrily chase him into a station. Gardner boards a train but loses one of his scanners in the process. His new relationship with Jay earns him the chance to become an intern stockbroker. The day before the interview, Gardner grudgingly agrees to paint his apartment so as to postpone due to his difficulty in paying the rent. While painting, Gardner is greeted by two policemen at his doorstep, who take him to the station, stating he has to pay for the numerous parking tickets he has accumulated. As part of the sanction, Gardner is ordered to spend the night in jail instead, complicating his schedule for the interview pursuit of happiness next morning. He manages to arrive at Dean Witter's office on time, albeit still in his shabby clothes. Despite his appearance, he impresses the interviewers and lands an unpaid internship. He would be among 20 interns competing for a paid position as a stockbroker. Gardner's unpaid internship does not please Linda, who eventually leaves for New York because she might get a job at her sister's boyfriend's new restaurant. After Gardner bluntly says she is incapable of being a pursuit of happiness mom, she agrees that Christopher Jr. Gardner is further set back when his bank account is by the for unpaid income taxes, and he and Christopher are evicted. Disadvantaged by his limited work hours, and knowing that maximizing his client contacts and profits is the only way to earn the broker position, Gardner develops a number of ways to make phone sales calls more efficiently, including reaching out to potential high-value customers, defying protocol. One sympathetic prospect who is a top-level pension fund manager even takes Chris and Christopher to a game. Concluding his internship, Gardner is called into a meeting with his managers. One of them notes he is wearing a new shirt. Gardner explains it is his last day and thought to dress for the occasion. Fighting back tears, Gardner shakes hands with them, then rushes to his son's daycare to embrace Christopher. They walk down the street, joking with each other and are passed by the real Chris Gardner, in a business suit. The epilogue reveals that Gardner went on to form his own multimillion-dollar brokerage firm. He published pursuit of happiness autobiography on May 23, pursuit of happiness, and later became an associate producer for the film. The movie took some liberties with Gardner's true life story. Certain details and events that actually took place over the span of several years were compressed into a relatively short time and although eight-year-old Jaden portrayed Chris as a five-year-old, Gardner's son was just a toddler at the time. Towards the end Chris Gardner has a brief uncredited cameo appearance before the credits. In the hope Gardner's story would inspire the down-trodden citizens of to achieve financial independence and to take greater responsibility for the welfare of their families, the mayor of Chattanooga organized a viewing of the film for the city's homeless. Gardner himself felt that it was imperative to share his story for the sake of its widespread social issues. Film review site calculated a 67% overall approval based on 173 reviews, with an average rating of 6. The beauty of the film is its honesty. In its outlines, it's nothing like the usual success story depicted on-screen, in which, after a reasonable interval of disappointment, success arrives wrapped in a ribbon and a bow. Instead, this success story follows the pattern most common in life—it chronicles a series of soul-sickening failures and defeats, missed opportunities, sure things that didn't quite happen, all of which are accompanied by a concomitant accretion of barely perceptible victories that gradually amount to something. In other words, pursuit of happiness all feels real. It's the same old bootstraps story, an American dream artfully told, skillfully sold. To that calculated end, the film making is seamless, unadorned, transparent, the better to serve Mr. How you respond to this man's moving story may depend on whether you find Mr. Smith's and his son's performances so overwhelmingly winning that you buy the idea that poverty is a function of bad luck and bad choices, and success the result of heroic toil and dreams. Smith's heartfelt performance is easy to admire. Gardner himself: easy to root for, certainly, but not that much fun to spend time with. Though the subject matter is serious, the film itself is rather slight, and it relies on the actor to give it any energy. Even in a more modest register, Smith is a very appealing leading man, and he makes Gardner's plight compelling. The Pursuit of Happyness is an unexceptional film with exceptional performances. There are worse ways to spend the holidays, and, at the least, it will likely make you appreciate your own circumstances. Father Will seldom comes across this mature on screen; at the finale, he achieves a measure of Oscar-worthy emotion. Little Jaden is a chip off the old block, uncommonly at ease before the cameras. Their real-life bond is an inestimable asset to the on-screen characters' relationship, although Conrad never really tests it with any conflict. Archived from on October 22, 2010.

We created outrageous things just because we could--the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building, which started to rise the year after the stock market crashed, because what better way to respond to a global economic crisis than to build the world's tallest skyscraper? In contrast to this, modern philosophy has abolished the idea of a universal human nature. But brings true joy, so striking it rich could in fact underwrite your happiness—if you were to give your wealth away. Both events tend to permanently knock people down a notch. It's an ongoing personal experiment. It took us 100 years to settle the continent and less than 200 to become the world's dominant power.