This is an excellent film, about a man's desire to succeed, and take care of his son, Will Smith is brilliant and Jaden is pretty good too.
However, and this is a big however, why do some people seem to think making lots of money makes them happy?
You can be quite perfectly happy without millions, its true that having lots of money brings you (usually) a better quality of life, but not neccesarily happiness. Take the storyline in this film, Chris sees stockbrokers coming out of a building and sees lots of smiles on their faces, so he assumes that being a stockbroker will make you happy, and he sees the guy in the Ferrari, and wishes he could have one of those. Again having a fast flashy car does not make you happy. At the start of the film, he is happy, and shows flashbacks to happier times, when he was with his partner, thats what happiness is, not the pursuit of money. Ok he got bit in the end, and kept his son, but lost his partner, so he lost that. Maybe he got happy again after he became a stockbroker and got rich, but the film does not show that. I note in the end titles, it states he became a successful stockbroker, and sold his share of a company for millions, great. Buy he lost his partner, lets hope he got another one later. But will it be as good as his first love, I doubt it, because that first relationship is usually the best, any after that, you just ending up comparing them to the first. So if he had done something different earlier, like got a steady job, maybe struggling a bit from time to time, because its that struggle together that makes your relationship stronger, not being rich, so he could have stayed with his first love, with son, and kept that true love for the rest of his life, without earning millions.
But the film was great, I gave it 8 stars.
However, and this is a big however, why do some people seem to think making lots of money makes them happy?
You can be quite perfectly happy without millions, its true that having lots of money brings you (usually) a better quality of life, but not neccesarily happiness. Take the storyline in this film, Chris sees stockbrokers coming out of a building and sees lots of smiles on their faces, so he assumes that being a stockbroker will make you happy, and he sees the guy in the Ferrari, and wishes he could have one of those. Again having a fast flashy car does not make you happy. At the start of the film, he is happy, and shows flashbacks to happier times, when he was with his partner, thats what happiness is, not the pursuit of money. Ok he got bit in the end, and kept his son, but lost his partner, so he lost that. Maybe he got happy again after he became a stockbroker and got rich, but the film does not show that. I note in the end titles, it states he became a successful stockbroker, and sold his share of a company for millions, great. Buy he lost his partner, lets hope he got another one later. But will it be as good as his first love, I doubt it, because that first relationship is usually the best, any after that, you just ending up comparing them to the first. So if he had done something different earlier, like got a steady job, maybe struggling a bit from time to time, because its that struggle together that makes your relationship stronger, not being rich, so he could have stayed with his first love, with son, and kept that true love for the rest of his life, without earning millions.
But the film was great, I gave it 8 stars.
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