“The Pursuit of Happiness”

It’s entirely a truthful title, because you watch the film praying for some kind of a happy ending to such a gloomy story. Will Smith stars here as Chris Gardner, who alongside with his wife& son. he’s a authentically likeable guy, who made the mistake of sinking his life savings into High-Density Bone Scanning machines, which he describes as “a machine that gives a slightly better image than an X-Ray, but costs twice as much” – and his incapability to put up for sale the machines brings Linda to the edge, and she leaves her family behind for a new life in New York. Facing a hard future and the threat of deportation, Chris takes on a highly competitive internship at a prestigious Stock broking firm, not realizing that .It doesn’t pay anything for the full six month traineeship, and, Out of the twenty successful applicants, only one of them is likely to be hired for a paying performance. The rest of the movie centers more on Chris’ struggles to provide some sort of normalcy for his son, without having any true means to do so. Will Smith is painful to watch in this movie, and I bought into his resist 100%. In a move that could have gone completely off the rails, Jaden Smith is also fantastic in this ; there’s no doubt that the onscreen teaming of family members has worked before in films; but usually with proven actors. Here Jaden is apparently ready to follow in Will’s footsteps, he plays the role with just enough purity to make the struggles he goes through that touch more horrendous. Overall, it’s a terrific movie I really recommend people to watch; it can easily be designated for an Oscar.