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The Pursuit of Happyness

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Saw Will Smith's The Pursuit of Happyness tonight. One word only to describe the movie: "Masterpiece". If Taare Zameen Par brought tears to your eyes, this one will flat out make you cry. I cannot believe how Will Smith did not get a Best Actor Oscar for this one. He has acted brilliantly in a very very tough role. An immensely talented actor with fantastic attention to detail. He is right up there with George Clooney as my favorite actors. The movie is based in San Francisco in the year 1981 and it portrays the shit that Chris Gardner (Smith's character) has to go through before finally making it big. This movie shows how you've got to grab opportunities when they don't even knock on your door and make full use of it when they actually do. The whole movie it about how good luck always evades you but still you fight through it just to make it to an unpaid internship the next morning.

The scene where Chris lies to his son (played by Will's own son Jaden) about the time machine and how they are transformed to the age of dinosaurs and consequently survive the night in the cave (actually the men's restroom in a SFO train station), sleeping on the dirty floor with tears flowing down Chris's eyes and reluctantly not opening the door of his "cave" when someone wants to use the restroom. Simply amazing.

I am deeply moved by this movie and will watch it again. Not for the hardships, not for the bad luck, not for the missed chances, but for the performance and character of Chris Gardner who survived it all and got through the toughest times. A movie based on a true story of Chris Gardner (A multi-millionaire investment broker). Watch it if you haven't already done so.

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Hari Parthasarathi said…
Indeed an awesome movie.
July 15, 2008 at 8:29 AM
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