The Pursuit of HappYness

Just watched the movie "The pursuit of happyness". It is a nice show, yet again...my type of show. A show which I wanted to watch ever since it came out...but due to some reasons, well, didn't wanna watch alone. The show is basically about A father trying to give the best for his family. The whole show begins with him selling this bone density scanner. He had to sell 2 per month to get it through a month, and 1 more to pay those parking tickets. And he hasn't been selling any recently. One day, he saw this guy with this expensive car, and he asked him, "What do you do, and how do you do it?" And that guy told him he's a stockbroker. So he decided to try his luck and become one. He tried so hard, trying to get the internship, and he eventually got it. But what he do not know is that there's no salary during that internship. His wife later left him and went to New york to work. And he insisted on taking the son. During that internship, people have to make profit for the company for 6 months, and the highest wins, and that one person will get the job. So he work very hard, while running and selling Bone density scanner at the same time to earn a living. He eventually sold all, but then the government took all his money away because he didn't pay the taxes. He's now left with $21.33 in his bank account.

There was this one scene which was really so sad... He had to bring his son to sleep in the subway's toilet because he simply got nowhere else to go. People knocking outside, and you see him crying for the first time. The wonderful thing about this show is his determination. He can appear all good the next day and go to work. There was this one scene which really show one thing. Rich people DO NOT understand the poor. Yeah, they might go on saying they understand but they do not. $5 means so much to him. And he had to pay for a cab fare for a so-called CEO or someone of that Brokerage film or something. That particular line when the CEO said "I'll pay you back, honest." Well sometimes, the thing isn't about paying back or something. It's about how can this poor man survive if you take away this $5 from him?

There's this one scene where he and his son were in this church and before going to bed, his son told him, "You're a good papa." Well don't know for you guys, but it really touched me...

Well I won't go on further by spoiling the show for you. Go watch it yourself. It's a good show, to me...though some people says it sucks. But well, I've always hate people who said a particular movie sucks, coz can you come up with an exact same film?

And by the way, this show is based on a true story. Yes, it IS true. And this guy has just sold a minority stake in his brokerage film in a multi-million dollar deal last year in 2006, thanks to his determination.

And one more thing, just in case you're wondering, I didn't spell the title wrongly... It is "The pursuit of happYness"
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We can't control how other people choose to live their lives. But we can help by living ours to the fullest. =)

~Kaze

Maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue.
And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what.