《当幸福来敲门》英文读后感,英文小品.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 3 The Pursuit of Happyness：Happyness is result of good chemistry If The Pursuit of Happyness didnt star Will Smith and his adorable son Jaden, it might be just another tearjerker rags-to-riches story. The Pursuit of Happyness is a curious bird to have landed in this awards-conscious season. For one thing, Will Smiths performance as a striving single dad has the grace to not panhandle for an Oscar. For another, theres very little self-congratulation about the film, and much thats uncomfortably dark. A quietly agonized drama of reaching and missing and reaching again, it takes place in the crack between the American dream and its nightmare shadow. Its a fine film, with a portrait of fatherhood that feels scuffed and driven and real. The movie is set in San Francisco at the height of the Reagan 80s, for no other reason than that its based on a true story. Smith plays Chris Gardner, the kind of man who once was a whip - smart kid but has never realized his potential. Having sunk his savings into a line of medical scanners that arent selling, Chris is beginning to fray at the seams. His wife, Linda , cant handle the stress, especially when her husband impulsively decides hed rather be a stockbroker instead. Soon enough, Chris has solo care of his 5-year-old son, Christopher (played by Smiths own son, Jaden). Using his natural bravado and a knack with a Rubiks Cube, the 30-something high school graduate talks himself into a six-month internship at Dean Witter, with a long-shot chance for a job at the end. The catch is that theres no pay. The Pursuit of Happyness -- the title comes from a misspelled schoolhouse mural -- has a lot on its mind but mostly this: If America is about the promise of bettering oneself, why does it have to be so freaking hard? Chris has one foot on an escalator going up and one foot on an elevator plummeting into the socioeconomic basement. While the other interns work late, he has to get his son out of day care. Casual misfortunes