It is a good movie. Will Smith performance was amazing. And as many critics suggest the chemistry between him and his son was exceptional.
I asked you in the theories of perception class to list four things make you happy, you did, we found out that each one of us think differently about happiness as well as life and other meanings and feelings in our lives. Here we are talking about the message in the movie, the meaning of happiness as offered by this film and what do you think of it comparing to your own meanings and interpretations of happiness and its requirements.
we can look too at the possible effect of this message on people's attitudes and behaviours and approach to life and being happy.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
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I think that this movie will have a very motivational effect on most people, as it stresses on the fact that EVERYONE can make it provided that they try hard (regardless of their social status, background, wealth). However, I think that people tend to get a bit "blinded" by such movies at times. All of a sudden they get these wonderful dreams and aspirations that they plan to carry out, neglecting and overlooking the fact that they are not terribly realistic.
Sure, it is good to have dreams but at times if they stray too far from what is realistically achievable, it can be very discouraging.
In its approach, this movie reminded me a lot of the Hindi film "Guru".
I like the aspect of perspective. Someone’s perspective of happiness could be to live a luxurious life with a lot of money. Someone might think of happiness in going out everyday to a new place for a new exciting adventure. The other new perspective of life is what is shown in this movie. It’s to just survive. Life on its own is the biggest and the most exciting adventure. Taking care of your family is not an easy task and when we take care of them and they feel satisfied and happy, it makes us happy.
As I mentioned before, I felt that this movie drew me into many aspect of reality..of life, and Will Smith's acting had a greater effect my feelings of that. The film should different people (father and worker, mother and worker and son) and so I felt it would affect each and every one of us as the audience in one way or another. Yes we do have different meanings of happiness but as the movie should, it wasn’t material possession or a position in life to Will Smith's character, but achieving something after so much was sacrificed and lost, and after all that patience..that was happiness to him. It made me think that we take a lot for granted and don’t satisfy ourselves with what we can enjoy that we easily have because what made him happy (and did it to make his son happy too) seems so normal and thought or as ordinary in many peoples lives!
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