bonne nuit,mes amis!today ella is going to share with you her favorite movie the pursuit of happiness.

the film was on show in december 15^th 2006 acted by will smith.

the story is actually based on the personal experience of a famous american millionaire chris gardner, who was once been put in prison, got the key of the street, and experienced all kinds of difficulties that we can ever imagine. however, he never gave up his dream：to become a stockbroker. he wrote his 25-year life-experience which was finally been put on the screen: the pursuit of happiness.

with the opening caption “inspired by a true story,” smith plays chris gardner, a rags-to-riches good guy who often quotes thomas jefferson in his pursuit of the american dream.   taking place in san francisco in 1981, chris is trying to lead his family—wife linda and son christopher—from a dingy apartment into the good life.

chris has sunken the family savings into becoming the exclusive distributor of a portable bone scanner, a nearly impossible to sell medical machine.

throughout the movie we see chris working hard along with one of the machines seemingly glued to his arm. he needs to sell two scanners a month to pay the rent and for the day care of his son. his product, as they say in outside sales, is not moving. but chris has that dream.

his wife linda who can bear no more leaves the family. you can imagine how frustrated chris feels. he can’t sell his scanners, he can’t pay the rent, and he looses his family.

as luck would have it, chris is selected as an unpaid intern for a six-month stockbroker training program but there is no guarantee of a position.

after going through the demanding rigors of the internship during the day, chris has to run like the wind to collect christopher from day care to get in line for a bed in a homeless shelter.  some nights they are successful; other nights they are not. a public restroom at the bart station shelters them on one harrowing night.

we know there is a happy ending, but the journey there is a rather bumpy road. i was moved by a scene where he tells his son, “don’t ever let someone tell you can’t do something. not even me. you’ve got a dream; you’ve got to protect it. you want something, you go get it.”