The Pursuit of Happyness

I have always been a fan of Will Smith ever since the good old days of his light hearted appearance on the early 20th century sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. But, let's face it, times have changed and people outgrow such wild comedic outbursts the day they hit puberty or perhaps a few before.

But that's besides the point here.

The point I am trying to make here, is that Will Smith is a wonderful actor who knows exactly how to act when given the best lead roles in a movie with exception to his second action flop Bad Boys II. I say flopped not because there are underlying facts that it did just not hit the commercial nerve in the summer it was released but rather because it came out too late after it's first debut's success plus with the unnecessary vulgarity and obscene scenes that we just did not come to adone from actors such as himself.

But as I said, given the lead roles that would best suit him, he takes it all the way to success with no sweat. Take his last comedic venture Hitch, a wonderful comedy that touched both sensitive nerves in both the male and female kingdoms of our race. Something so wonderfully romantic and yet a very simple idea that just grows within our heads as the movie goes along.

The Pursuit of Happyness rides along that line with the idea coming from a father and his son having gone through every part of bitterness of life that anyone could ever bare to imagine in a personal manner, from losing a mother to another man, to losing your job and your home and having to live through each day as it's your last just trying to think of what you're going to do the next day in order just to survive.

The movie strikes a chord within all human beings because it brings out the human touch that shows us that it is when we are our strongest we can also be at our most vulnerable stage.

Unfortunately, The Pursuit of Happyness has not hit the Omani cinemas yet and I have no idea if it has even reached the UAE. But this is what I understood from its brief internet trailer and the official movie site.

A movie I think no one should ever try to miss, no matter what age you are.

Last but not least, this movie has been nominated for 2 Golden Globe Awards. Somewhat of an achievement near to the Oscars for our multi-talented actor - Mr. Will Smith.

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Links:

- Official movie site

- Movie trailer

- Movie info (Yahoo! Movies)