He lugs a machine-which looks like a large sewing machine in its case, or perhaps a time machine, depending on your perspective-from hospital to hospital with little sales success.Ĭhris frets about the future … and his sonĪs Gardner says via voiceover at one point, 'This part of my life is called running.' And the pursuit in The Pursuit of Happyness often plays out in a quite literal manner-with Chris running to catch the bus or to recover a stolen bone density scanner (if you ask me, one of the thieves looks suspiciously like Rebecca St. With high hopes and the knowledge he would be the only Bay-area distributor, he spent his life savings buying the devices only for the industry to find them an unnecessary expense. The Pursuit of Happyness tells the mostly true story of Chris Gardner (Smith), a San Francisco salesman of high-density bones scanners. What hath the Prince of Bel-Air to do with Athens, you ask? Bear with me. And in some ways, Will Smith's latest movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, can be seen as part of this conversation. The Choice of Heracles has provided much fodder for western artists in the years since it was first told.

But the second woman's road, fraught with work and self-denial though it may be, is the way to achievement and respect and a truly happy life. She warns that the initial appeal of vice and pleasure eventually fade into nothing worth having it certainly doesn't lead to a happy life. She appeals via her words more than by her appearance. The second woman is sober and reserved, perhaps a bit frumpy.

Will Smith and his real-life son, Jaden, are the co-stars

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