Well said, how we are always in the pursuit of happiness, but seldom are we able to attain it. Is it because happiness is abstract, is it because it's an experiential commodity such that it gets expended and depleted, that everyone has access and have obtained it before? Just that it goes away and it's time to spend resources to once again chase it around corners and highways.
Definitely an inspiring movie, alongside Rocky Balboa I'm sure, even though I didn't watch it. Da bro feels it ended abruptly because the ending was shown in textual form, telling us how Gardner (played by Will Smith) started up his own investment company in the end. I feel it's ok, appeals to business-oriented audiences who don't like to see too long an inspiring movie that drags on for the sake of wasting film. I'm sure we can all agree that there is such a thing as "too much of a good thing".
Feels like I've been to hell and back these few weeks, surviving on token amounts of sleep and becoming brain dead most the time in the day. I'm finally starting to see the light at the end of this depression cycle. Thanks Aaron for suggesting the movie.
Useless fact of the day: it was Will Smith's son that starred with him in the movie, The Pursuit of Happyness. The reason for the intentional spelling mistake (happiness and not happyness) is because Gardner was taking his son to school (after a domestic argument with his wife) and was asking him about a spelling mistake his son had made in school. It may have become the title to remind us to keep our heads up when pursuing happiness and to do it with reckless abandon akin to the way a child does. Will Smith cried in this movie twice - once when he was down and out till he had to pretend that they were chased by dinosaurs before spending the night in the subway toilet with his son. Tears of shame rolled down as he took in the sorry state they were in. His wife split. The second time, he cried tears of joy as his tough days working as an intern in a stock broker company were over and he was picked to be a broker despite not being qualified officially.
