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Happy Movie Review

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Many people struggle to find happiness, but for others happiness is simple and easy. The movie Happy directed by Roko Belic he shows the audience how happiness is found across the world. Happy is a great movie that keeps the viewer in tuned throughout and thinking about it after. I would recommend this movie because of the Blanchard family, Bhutan, and the audio visuals. For many people around the world including many people interviewed on the streets in this film, happiness is about money. Happy even showed how the crave for money in China got so out of hand Chinese workers were losing their lives due to exhaustion. However, for the Blanchard family, money wasn’t how they found their happiness. The Blanchard family resigns in Southern Louisiana most of them living within a few miles of each other. They all meet together at least once a week and feast on the crab they caught earlier that week. They lay the crab out in a disorderly fashion spreading it across an outdoor table which is covered in newspaper. They lay down all the crab and have a feast catching up with one another and laughing a lot. Roy Blanchard talks about how they don’t need to be rich because they have each other. This is a great piece by Director Belic as this family shows that in the money crazed world today that you can be …show more content…

Everybody seeks happiness belic shows how simply happiness can be achieved. Belic shows how happiness isn’t brought upon by material goods but by family and doing what you want. Whether it’s living the Blanchard’s lifestyle keeping your family close and seeing them consistently or not worrying so much about financials Belic shows you can be happy. The audio visuals are great and give outstanding in depth insight to help wrap your head around the lives of the interviewees. In conclusion Happy is an excellent film because of the families that were interviewed and the great insight the audio visuals

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