Director Gabriele Muccino directed the movie Pursuit of Happyness in 2006 and the movie Seven Pounds in 2008. In both movies he characterizes about the path of life of a man. The character Chris Gardner in Pursuit of Happyness provides inspiration and motivation, as he characterized the character as a more persevering, tolerable and having positive attitude towards life than the character Tim Thomas in Seven Pounds.
Chris Gardner invests his entire lifesavings on an exceptionally foolish enterprise which leads his family towards financial crisis. His wife cannot handle the constant strain of financial pressure and decides to abandon him and their five year old son. He and his son are evicted from their home. They forced to join with other homeless people who find food and lodging if they are lucky to get in line early. He spends six months as an unpaid intern in a stock brokerage firm. After his insurmountable battle, he is able to get full time position out of twenty interns. In the later of his life he becomes a successful businessman and forms his own multi-million dollar brokerage firm.
Tim Thomas got a multi-car crash in which six stranger people and his wife has died. The reason of the accident was he was carelessly sending a text message, while he was driving the car. He is unable to live with what he did. He decides to save seven good people lives by donating his own organ. He makes a list of people and steals his brother’s IRS credential to determine whether the people are good or not. He donates his lung lobe, kidney, part of his liver and bone marrow to the strangers to save their lives. He decides to make his life end, so that he can donate his eye and heart. To preserve his organ he commits suicide in the bathtub tha...
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... the part of the movie, it has shown that during the procedure of bone marrow transfer he has not even got anesthesia, so that he can redeem from his mistake. However, it is not practical. His character can give negative impressions to anyone. The accident has occurred because of his texting, while driving. So that, he can does his atonement by motivating people to do not texting while driving. He can disseminate the impact of texting, while driving. However, by not doing so, he embraces a wrong path of his life. He destroys his life which reflects his one kind of foolishness.
To sum up, to compare with the character Tim Thomas, the character Chris Gardner is one kind of role model in our lives. Chris Gardner gives us inspiration to get everything what we want. He teaches us that perseverance and determination is the key of success of one’s life.
The theme of hopelessness is proven through poverty statistics during the time the story is taking place. But the film’s overall purpose provides proof as to what drives Chris Gardner to pursue happiness through dreams and determination. With the aid of visual cinematography and setting context the logos of the film is uncomplicated and artistically arranged to convince an audience of the situations they witness in the film. Themes in a film differentiate depending upon whether the plot of the film had shifted to reached its climax and while the themes may differentiate, most films all incorporate the use of pathos, logos, and ethos in various ways. A great example of the use of these three principles is The Pursuit of Happyness as it
In “My Brother Sam is dead”, James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier portrayed Tim as a very brave man, smart man, and quick to grow into his role as the man of his house. Tim was a hard worker and a respectful kid. He did all that he could to keep his household running and was eventually rewarded for his hard work by being a successful
Tim Thomas decided to drastically change his life by giving everything he has to seven people, in order to save or improve their life in order to “make up” for the seven lives that were lost as a result of his carelessness. He gave a part of his lungs to his brother, a piece of his liver to a social worker, a kidney to a hockey coach, his home to a mother of two children but there were still two more that he needed to help. So he took his brothers IRS credentials and found Emily who was in need of a heart and Ezra who needed two eyes. He determined that both were good and deserving people that were worthy of the gift so he committed suicide in order to enhance their quality of life.
“Don’t judge a book by it’s cover, it’s what’s inside counts” This quote reminds people about how they should not judge other people from the outside but look deep into their true personalities. Looking from the appearance and how Chris lives, everyone would assume that Chris is a crazy, foolish person and does everything without thinking. If people try to know more about Chris, they would have different perspective. Chris is intelligent, determined, independent and follows what he believes. He went into the wilderness to escape from the society that tries to suppress him and look for the meaning of life.
All the trauma suffering for this young male ends for him to make a decision to take his own life hanging himself in his own house , unfortunately this time he actually succeed and died.
Chris problems worsen once he's distressed with the sudden loss of his parents to an automobile accident. Once the tragic Chris suffers from multiple problems that have an effect on his existence. He claims to own problems with emotional outburst; he acts out frequently, issues forming relationships with other individuals, and has nightmares. He additionally states that he becomes upset and troublesome to regulate. He explains he's experiencing feelings of being alone, abandonment and rejection. He reverts to infringing his frustration on others, he's withdrawn, get into fights, his grades has suffe...
“You never know how the tough times you are going through today will inspire someone else tomorrow.” (Tebow, shaken). In his book, Tim Tebow talks about the struggles he's been though and how God has helped him through it all. He lives his life always honoring God and his decisions portray being a Christian. Tim Tebow is a great role model because he's athletic, he's a good leader and mentor and most important he loves God.
In “Paradise Glossed, ” from Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard, discusses how happiness is not simply quantified or measured, but rather, results from how people interpret the numerous events that make up their lives. His main claim is that each event could be seen from a myriad of different angles, and thus could end in varying degrees of happiness for each person. Gilbert also explains how people often lean more toward the optimistic side of things: upon experiencing an event, people tend to find the positives in the situation. Gilbert’s argument is reasonable, clear, and is backed by evidence. But in spite of this, he fails to clearly define happiness, and his logic is somewhat flawed. He seems to
Turning his back on society, Chris McCandless throws away materialistic comfort and immerses himself in the values he believes to be important and pursues the ideals that he feels are worthwhile. He branches away from his family, friends, school and entirely abandons his identity as Christopher McCandless and creates a new one as Alexander Supertramp. His actions, often considered to be selfish and cruel, might have been necessary and almost noble change for him. By not even communicating with his sister, Carine, the one person to whom he was quite close to, Chris makes it quite obvious that he does not want to be found. Before, Chris had pushed himself through university, academically and physically as a top student and athlete and later on his journey, pushes himself to be completely independent because, “…it was important for him to see how independent he could be” (Krakauer 125). This quote illustrates the side of Chris that challenges himself to simply challenge himself— not a result of his romantic infatuation for self ...
All in all, it is interesting how the trials of life can lead a person into an awakening that inspires millions. Many people believe that walking “into the wild” to live off the land and find himself alone in nature was arrogant, foolish and irresponsible. Chris lacks of knowledge about the wild was a major factor in his death. Chris did not plan how he will survive in the wilderness without proper equipments. He misunderstood that he would have no problem in setting in the wild. Chris immature manner and decisions lead him to starvation and ultimately death. If he planned it out in the beginning he would have saved his life.
A general synopsis of this movie could be that it was about a salesman (Chris Gardner) from San Francisco, California who had big dreams for his family. He adored his son and loved his wife but when Chris could not sale, it led to his family struggling to pay bills, which resulted to his wife being fed up with struggling and decides to walk out on her husband and young son. Not letting that prevent him from continuing to fulfill the dreams he had for his family, he continued to strive (while homeless) and pursue a stockbroker positions (if selected) at Dean Witter af...
His bank account was wiped out by the IRS for unpaid taxes and he had less than thirty dollars in it. Furthermore, he and his son would spend some nights at a restroom in the subway station as Chris could not make rent. Chris struggles throughout the whole movie as he attempts to manage his work in the office and the long lines outside the church where the homeless could spend the night. Despite all the difficulty he goes through, he never shows a sign of weakness. His motivation and consistency are inspiring and uplifting for the viewer. The work ethic reminds viewers of the hard working blue collar class, because Chris is willing to work and sacrifice to overcome any hardship and preserve in order to provide the best for his son. While finishing his internship, he gets called down to the boss’ office once again where he is offered a permanent job at the company. This moment of realization causes an overwhelming rush of emotions for Chris and for the viewer as final captions on the screen describe how he later becomes a successful multi-millionaire and proceeds to open his own brokerage
The movie Pursuit of Happyness shows how a person became a homeless then eventually how he survived from being a homeless. Then, to being a multi millionaire. Even though he experienced how hard life can be he still pursued to reach his goals in his life for his son. This movie shows how a homeless person stand up and pursue to be successful.
What does it mean to be happy? Happiness is a sensation that people want to have, and a lot of it. Above all else in the world, it’s what we seek and long for. Though this feeling can be found in many different places and at many different times, it isn’t easy to acquire. For some people, happiness might be found in exercise and sustaining good health. On the other hand, others can discover it when they go on vacation and relax. The idea here is that we each have our own things that make us happy.
Chris Gardner excels at his stockbroker internship in Dean-Witter, earning the attention and respect from his superiors. However, his personal life plunges exponentially. He loses his money and has to resort to sleeping in homeless shelters and subway station bathrooms. He begins to think that happiness can never really be achieved, but he is proved wrong when he feels happy for the first time in the longest time after he lands a job in Dean Witter.