There Is No “Y” In Happiness, There Is “I”
—A REVIEW OF”THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS”
There is a story about loser. As a matter of fact, I think it is usually more serious problem that someone is called “loser” in English. Because,when you are labeled a "loser" in the name, you will be forgotten and despised by others. And when you are named “total loser”, I am afraid you will break down in your life. However, this story is not about success, just about happiness. What is happiness? If you ask this question on what is the same universe. As we all know, everyone has their own standard about happiness.As long as you reach this standard, you're happy.
Just like this film “the pursuit of the happyness”. This film tells the story of a poor father called Christ Gardner. When He met his father, he was 28. So he was determined to be a good father who can take care of his son very well. He wanted to change the situation of the family.He bought 50 b one scanners ,he wanted to sale these by 240 dollars to make a change.But he failed.Most of the doctors think it as a useless an d expensive machine .Christ had to find out other ways to make it.With the help of a magic cube ,he succeeded getting a chanc e to practice in Dean Witter,he want to be a stockbroker,becaus
e he meet a person who own a wonderful car,he ask him how t o make it ,and he got the answer that he was a stockbroker.But there were 20 person attending this practice.But at last ,only on
e person would be hired,and to made matters worse.During the
6 months of the practice, there were no salary. During this time, his wife left him, Because of the enormous pressure of life. Chris became a single father. Misfortunes never come singly, he and his son were driven out of the apartment, they were homeless. Although under great pressure , Chris chose to stick it out, and fight for what he know n he can do ,for him ,and for his son. He is strong in spirit ,what ever barriers he meet ,he just continued his work and never sto pped running .but it looks like that god likes to play tricks with h im , he had gone through more hardships than others before th e final success . After the most difficult time ,the spring for him is coming. He was hired. And he became a successful investment expert at last.
As far as I concerned, the storyline focuses on some details about the whole story. The first detail, as the beginning of this film,after Chris has sent Christopher to the kindergarten , he sa w a wrong word “happ y ess” on the wall .How could this be?
Maybe nobody cared about it. But Chris paid attention to the wrong word and said a famous sentence: There is no “Y(why)”in happiness ,the only thing we can do is striving for our own happiness voluntarily . It was not only a simple sigh with feeling, but also a theme of this film. As a matter of fact, this film just wanted pass on a truth to us, the truth about happiness. The second detail, Chris said he met with his father at 28.When Chris phoned his wife in the police station and begged her to bring his son back, the tears fulled of the love of a father, perhaps he knew poverty-stricken situation clearly, tax, rent an d tickets were waiting for paid, his wife left him because of the poor life and his “unpractical” dream, but in his mind, if his son was still with him,he had a family. And his son was the only sup port of his fighting. He wanted to be an eligible father. But it can not be ignored When the mother left his son, she told to her son “tell him I love him”,which touched me. For women who wo rked almost 16 hours per day to raise the family and whose hus band always in unpractical dream, in her mind it seemed reasonable for her to leave. But she was just a mother, although she knew that she had no time to take care of her son and Chris could stay with the boy and looked after him well, she still could not
