The Pursuit of HappYness (Real Chris Gardener Video)
Thursday, March 15, 2007
The pursuit of happyness [deliberately miss spelt] is a fantastic portrayal of the life and times of Chris Gardner. The movie is so moving [no pun intended] that it is difficult to be unbiased while writing this review, specially coming from a guy who's looking for internships himself. Well difficult or not, I need to write this review, from a detached perspective.
Chris Gardner [Will Smith, wonderful as ever] is a bright, talented but marginally employed salesman. Struggling to make ends meet, Gardner finds himself and his five-year-old son, Christopher [Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (Will Smith's real son), fantastic performance + cute], evicted from their San Francisco apartment with nowhere to go. Despite his valiant attempts to keep the family afloat, Christopher's mother [Thandie Newton, brilliant] buckles under the constraint of financial pressure. No longer able to cope, she reluctantly decides to leave.
Chris, now a single father, continues to doggedly pursue a better paying job using every sales skill he knows. When Gardner lands an [unpaid] internship at a prestigious brokerage firm, things can only go from bad to worse. He and his son endure many hardships, in pursuit of his dream of a better life for the two of them.
Without a financial cushion, they are soon evicted from their apartment and are forced to sleep in shelters, bus stands, public urinals, or wherever they can find refuge for the night. Despite his troubles, Chris continues to honor his commitment as a loving and caring father, using the affection and trust his son has placed in him as his source of inspiration, as an impetus to overcome the obstacles he faces.
There are many touching scenes in the film, if I were to pen down all of them; this would be a really long review. So I'll just write about one scene that deserves a special mention. It is the ending, when Chris finally lands a job at the brokerage firm. It's just one of those wonderfully shot sequences. It tickles you like a feather as you leave that cinema hall with a smile on your face.
Now the video below here is the man himself Chris Gardener himself
Chris Gardner [Will Smith, wonderful as ever] is a bright, talented but marginally employed salesman. Struggling to make ends meet, Gardner finds himself and his five-year-old son, Christopher [Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (Will Smith's real son), fantastic performance + cute], evicted from their San Francisco apartment with nowhere to go. Despite his valiant attempts to keep the family afloat, Christopher's mother [Thandie Newton, brilliant] buckles under the constraint of financial pressure. No longer able to cope, she reluctantly decides to leave.
Chris, now a single father, continues to doggedly pursue a better paying job using every sales skill he knows. When Gardner lands an [unpaid] internship at a prestigious brokerage firm, things can only go from bad to worse. He and his son endure many hardships, in pursuit of his dream of a better life for the two of them.
Without a financial cushion, they are soon evicted from their apartment and are forced to sleep in shelters, bus stands, public urinals, or wherever they can find refuge for the night. Despite his troubles, Chris continues to honor his commitment as a loving and caring father, using the affection and trust his son has placed in him as his source of inspiration, as an impetus to overcome the obstacles he faces.
There are many touching scenes in the film, if I were to pen down all of them; this would be a really long review. So I'll just write about one scene that deserves a special mention. It is the ending, when Chris finally lands a job at the brokerage firm. It's just one of those wonderfully shot sequences. It tickles you like a feather as you leave that cinema hall with a smile on your face.
Now the video below here is the man himself Chris Gardener himself
