Just as I thought that About Schmidt was more than its apparently depressing ending, so I think The Pursuit of Happyness is more than its inspirational ending. But I would like to downplay both extremes just a little. If you thought so, this week's movie will be the antidote, since it is uplifting, even inspirational, unless you are a certain kind of person that I will mention in a moment. Once again, before we move on to a discussion of tonight's film, the based-on-a-true-story Pursuit of Happyness by Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith, I want to look back for just a moment to the view, expressed by some during the discussion last week, that About Schmidt was a depressing movie. Before showing this movie, Mr.Bowman spoke for a few minutes about it and the series as a whole as follows. This summerEPPC Resident Scholar James Bowmanhas been presenting, on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington, a series of six films on the general theme of “The Pursuit of Happiness.” The sixth and final film in the series, itself titled The Pursuit of Happyness, by Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith, Thandie Newton and Jaden Smith, was shown on Tuesday, August 3rd.
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