Money success does not mean success in life

Jason 2022-03-19 09:01:02

Feelings of watching "When Happiness Knocks on the Door"

When everyone gave this movie a high praise, I
followed the trend and opened the movie. First , I will say the conclusion: Although this is based on a real story, I think through hard work Overcoming all the inspirational stories to achieve career success does not mean that you have obtained a happy life since then.


In the beginning, the family was relatively wealthy. The protagonist invested all his assets and made a wrong decision-to buy that expensive bone density tester. It can be seen that his wife supported him at the beginning. Then in the next five years, they were not sold out. The protagonist goes out to sell every day, and returns every day. The family has reached the point of exhaustion, and the relationship between the husband and wife is on the verge of breaking up, and then his wife has made the decision to leave him.
When I saw this, I really applauded this wife. What a long time five years is long enough to exhaust all feelings. Didn't she never support him and believed in him, but what else did he give her besides an increasingly burdensome life? Compared with the cost of the protagonist’s daily run for nothing, the protagonist’s wife has been earning money to maintain the home anyway. It is not enough to see the market prospects of this product for one, two, three or four years, if I were the protagonist. I will try to sell those instruments at a low price, whether I go out to be a waiter or move bricks, at least I am making money. Not relying on his wife to support him.
Many netizens left a vicious message: a woman who dislikes the poor and loves the rich, finally knows that she will become so rich, is she regretting her death? I really feel sorry for their ignorance. I only noticed the suffering the protagonist encountered, and took the suffering he experienced as the reason he had tried his best. In my opinion, he is not working hard enough and not responsible enough.
When the wife was about to take her son away, the protagonist was guilty again, saying: Don’t want to take my son away. I just want to sneer. In this family, my wife has taken on too many responsibilities. She has to work hard to earn money and take care of her son. This is much better than the protagonist who has no stable income. Obviously It seems that she is good for the child if she takes her son away. And the protagonist insists on leaving the child, is this fatherly love? Does the mother who left just don't love her children? ridiculous. The next thing is that because of the distress of life, he has repeatedly done unethical things, such as getting on the bus and jumping in line, such as taking a taxi and not paying. In my opinion, if a person is in a trough, as long as he has good qualities and unremitting pursuit, everything will be fine. And the protagonist—probably just seized an opportunity, and later became a catastrophe. His opportunity was obtained by ill-conceived means (catch up with the taxi without giving money). After entering the company, he worked hard, but the people who competed with him didn't work hard anymore? He doesn't give up studying in despair, but shouldn't he choose a stable job first to make money and pay off the rent? Isn't he deserved to be kicked out after choosing a job without a salary for half a year? Isn't he working so hard because he has no retreat? Isn't it because he has no retreat?
Later, he got the one-to-twenty job, and he was finally relieved of embarrassment, but what can it do? Compared with what he lost, the financial success is nothing at all.
Of course, you can call me Bai Lianhua, because I really have not experienced the life of the protagonist. I don’t know if it is difficult to talk about morality and quality under the condition of insufficient food and clothing, but I only know that compared to being the first line For those who want to gamble on tomorrow, I would rather live every day with a down-to-earth person, and then a whole life will be in the blink of an eye-I hope my children will be proud of such a father.

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Extended Reading
  • Karson 2022-03-24 09:01:06

    This is definitely one of the most affectionate videos I have ever seen! In the film, the father has always had a good temper so that his children can eat. He doesn't care about starving himself or suffers blindfolded eyes... only cares about the people who are most important to him. At the end of the film, the scene of my father walking into the crowd with ease, reminds me of Zhu Ziqing's "Back View", with the same warmth.

  • Kirstin 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    It’s another typical case of Hollywood’s dream machine. It gives you Amway’s American dream. How can you see it? Knowing that it will come from a desperate situation in the end, the ending is arranged, and how can you see it is nothing more than a miserable sale. It's ironic to think about the status quo of people of color in the capital society after becoming a big man. It’s not really miserable to look at it, it’s just the life dilemma caused by his investment failure, and a smart person like him is destined to be temporary. This is not even inspirational for ordinary people, at least for individuals. The conditions are not equal. To put it bluntly, she pretends to be a pig and eat a tiger, pretending to be weak and deceiving her tears. Believe me, this movie is one of the best choices to test the class. Basically, the rich and well-off people I know are easily moved by it, and the inner monologue of the poor, lower and middle peasants like me is basically wtf. . I will never understand the sadness of the petty bourgeoisie.

The Pursuit of Happyness quotes

  • [about Chris' bone-density scanner]

    Homeless Guy #1: It's a time machine... I know it's a time machine...

    Christopher Gardner: [voice-over, while sitting on a bus] This machine in my lap? It is not a time machine.

  • [last narration lines, while walking in the crowd and crying]

    Christopher Gardner: [voice-over] This part of my life... this part right here? This is called "happyness."