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Last night I saw a movie named “The pursuit of Happiness”, which was recommended to me heavily by one of my friends a couple weeks ago. I usually take very little interest in biography films like this, because I always think it's boring. But this time at this film, I changed my attitude to that it's a meaningful biography movie.
The film tries to discuss the meaning of happiness to the people who was struggling for a living, just like the dramatis personae - Chris. Let's take a look at Chris's encounter.
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman in little needed medical bone density scanners while his wife toiled in double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. Chris Gardner has big dreams for him and his family but it doesn't seem to come together for him.
The first time when he go to submit his job application as a stockbroker, his bone-density scanner, which he sales for a living, was stole by a hippie girl, so he run out of the manager's office to chase back his scanner. He call this part of this life being stupid.
The second time he run into the train to escape paying the Taxi, because he even couldn't pay for a ride. But instead his lost his scanner on the train's door, and the worse thing is that his wife was leaving at that time. He depressed.
There is a significant monolog here about Thomas Jefferson's declaration of independence: the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
"How did he know to put the 'pursuit' part in there ?"
"That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue."
"And maybe we can actually never have it...no matter what."
"How did he know that..."
How ironical it was!
The great declaration of independence compare with the hard life of an ordinary sales man.
Then he went to the jail for a night, because he hadn't enough money to pay the parking ticket, at the meanwhile he had a job interview as a stockbroker at 10:15 the second morning. Luckily, on his running, he finally caught up the interview on time, although dressed like a clean worker.
I remember his words on the interview very clearly:
“I'm the type of person…
if you ask me a question, and I don't know the answer,
I'm gonna tell you that I don't know.
But I bet you what,
I know how to find the answer, and I will find the answer.”
Then he finally got a stockbroker internship position, which has no salary in six month training just like nowadays salesman in Guangzhou. So he still had to sell his scanners for his living. Meanwhile, he was evicted for not have the money to pay the rent, and wife leaving, he has all sorts of difficulties with his son.
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So they find themselves sometimes living on the street and struggling to get by. But Chris is determined to make it, never give up.
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Chris clings to this dream with his son even when the odds become more daunting by the day.
Together, father and son struggle through homelessness, jail time, even sell blood, tax seizure and the overall punishing despair in a quest that would make Gardner a respected millionaire.
It is a movie about the tough life of a typical people of underneath class, but it's also what's our ordinary people can see in our everyday life.
Life never been easy for anyone of us, but the point is, also what the film want to implies to us is, when we in the face of the difficult life, even the very tough environment, should we give up? No! Take a look at Chris, think of his attitude of handling all this stuff -- still be easy to everyone, no complains, never say give up, cause the light of happiness is shinning at the not far away front of us.
What is happiness?
The dialog Chris talk to his son express it very clear to us:
“ Don't ever let somebody tell you...
You can't do something.
You got a dream, you gotta protect it.
People can't do something themselves...
...they wanna tell you, you can't do it.
lf you want something, go get it. Period.”
You know what? It's an "i" in happiness. No "y"(why) in happiness.
Last but no the least, I strongly recommend everyone who read this essay to see this movie, just for our life.
Lord, don't move that mountain
Give me strength to climb it
Please don't move that stumbling block
But lead me, Lord, around it
My burdens, they get so heavy
Seems hard to bear
But I won't give up, no, no
Because you promised me
You'd meet me at the altar of prayer
