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The Pursuit Of Happyness Movie Essay

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The Pursuit of Happyness This movie is a riveting, sometimes harrowing movie that chronicles the life of a young Afro-American father and son as they navigate the various vicissitudes of life including poverty and homelessness. This story is hewn out of the ever menacing backdrop of the menacing streets of San Francisco. Chris Garner is the movies protagonist true life star. He does a more than formidable job of supplying potential Social Work students with enough drama, dysfunction, and depressing moments to fill a War and Peace size novel. Not short on nostalgia and goose bump moments. It is a splendid yarn that puts on vivid display the pursuit of the American Dream and all the attending forces that oppose that, especially for Afro-American males. This a true to form rags to riches story with some very disturbing, yet uplifting moments. My personal feelings or reactions to the main characters was quite varied and ran the gamut from whimsical to sheer anger. I was taken aback with Linda who was cast as Chris’s live-in girlfriend. She was moderately attractive, but was so demanding, cynical, and ungrateful I literally could …show more content…

He is concerned about the daycare showing Love Boat and Bonanza to the children. He brings forth a tremendous amount of resolve, resiliency, and creativity which is showcased in their securing sleeping quarters in the abandoned Bay Area Rapid Transit bathroom at night until early mornings. Chris invests his entire life savings in portable bone density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors by suggesting they are superior to modern day X-rays. Chris’s continued hounding of Dean Whitter executive Jay Twistle was noteworthy and a case study in perseverance. Chris’s ability to multi-task in the face of a host of negative stressors was displayed throughout the entire narrative. He was quite literally a man on a mission and would not settle for less or take no for an

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