The Pursuit Of Happyness

Inspired by a true story based on the life of Chris Gardner, this movie shows the struggle of a father trying to hold the family together despite of the tremendous daily difficulties that he face. His sales job was going downhill, his wife left him, his inability to pay his fines landed him in jail, he had no money for daily expenses and eventually, homelessness. In spite of these, he was determined for a career change to be a stockbroker.

The love between Chris and his son was also extremely moving. It almost seems that Chris motivation behind his daily struggles was his son, that he wants his son to be happy. In one scene when Chris was teaching Chris Jr., this dialogue left a very deep impression in me and I felt it captured the essence of the movie.

Chris Gardner
Don't ever let somebody tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.

After months of being deep in mud, struggling with life and at the brink of depression, Chris finally have a chance at happiness with life when he got chosen to be a stockbroker out of the 20 that applied for it. That joy that he had was incomparable.

That joy moved me to tears.