Pursuit of Happyness – with Will Smith. Thought it’d be some tear jerker that Catherine would thank me for recording. But it was lame. I just didn’t like the character. A hustler, liar, con-man, who in the end, makes some money. Money is happiness?
Maybe it’s where I’m at in life, but at the moment when he talks about getting happiness in his life, I would have thought his kid would have been involved.
Catherine says that he’s happy cause he can finally support his child the way he wanted. But there was a point in the story where they spend the night in a restroom, cause they’re homeless. And his kid barely complains. This was the lowest maintenance kid in the history of mankind. And where did the kid spend all day when they were in a homeless shelter at night? I don’t think life was as rosy for the kid as it was portrayed.
I felt a little guilty about not liking the guy, but hey – no one else really liked the guy. He didn’t have any friends – maybe 1 friend who owed him $14 dollars – and/but felt that was worth losing that relationship over too. So it wasn’t just me that didn’t like him – no one else really liked him. Though they don’t really promote that aspect of the character in the movie. Will Smith is the right guy though, to make him more likable right off the bat.
So no tear jerking. No sympathy either really – cause if you really want to make things work – you make things work, not do what you want to do. I think. Factotum is on Showtime – that’ll be more interesting.