Review of The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) by Mattm. — 16 Dec 2006
Will Smith somehow keeps you involved in this propaganda movie. This movie is ridiculous! the whole concept is that money is the only thing that makes you happy. With subliminal images of rich white people always smiling and living the perfect lives with golden retrievers in their mercedes.
I worked on wall street those people are greedy miserable jerks. for the most part. The idea of the story is great but poorly executed. The filmmaking concept of diminishing returns is very prevalent.
You can't show the same thing happening to a character over and over and expect an emotional reaction. The audience gets used to nothing going right for this guy and it has no effect after a while.
Will's brilliant acting gets a small amount of emotion at the end, but if the movie would of been about his work situation more and the threat of him not getting the job it would of had a chance to be really good.
Overall: boring, good acting, but right wing capitalist propaganda.
This review of The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) was written by Mattm. on 16 Dec 2006.
The Pursuit of Happyness has generally received very positive reviews.
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