Everyone's understanding of success and happiness is different, and this understanding can only be realized after personal experience. If you continue daydreaming after drawing yourself into a prison, you will only lose your independent personality while gradually deviating from the normal track of life.
The movie "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", released in China in 2008, uses a more clichéd story to give people a different kind of inspiration. This perception is due to familiarity and empathy.

In the eyes of most people, this is a movie about dreams, but in my opinion, it is a movie about life, because we have been or are now experiencing what the protagonist Chris experienced . The pressure of life urges efforts to move forward, and the confusion about the unknown in the future always makes the pace of running appear heavy.
Adapted from the autobiography of real characters, while integrating the original author’s personal feelings, it also appropriately adds the creator’s thinking. This kind of shooting process that can blend in and jump out makes the whole movie even from the beginning You can guess the end, but still firmly attract the attention of the audience, because there is a pure life like ours.

Dreams can never be separated from life. Those who truly understand life will certainly combine the realization of dreams with the reality of life.
In the movie, Chris wants to be a stockbroker because he carries a family on his back, which is a material need, and his heart is filled with a lot of unwillingness, which is a spiritual need, so from the beginning Confused to the final determination, life made him a strong man in material, and he made himself a brave in spirit.

The movie "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is one of my most respected movies, and the review of movies from time to time always gives me a glimmer of hope when I am stuck. The hope here is because of the emotional resonance after empathizing with the protagonist Chris.
When Will Smith took his two-year-old son to star in this one of the few literary films of his career, because of the in-depth research on the role and the thorough understanding of life, it showed us the bottom of society. The most common individual image.
In the fast-paced social development, no matter from which aspect, there are elements of class restraint, and the emergence of Chris has become a symbol to break class restraint, and this symbol contains both material and spiritual considerations. .

At the beginning of the movie, it presented the image of a life failure.
Chris has accumulated a lot of money at home because of investment mistakesMedical 🔍Equipment, and these equipment, because of their high prices, have become Chris's indispensable commodities. Even though Chris is busy promoting sales every day, he still can't sell these equipment, so he can't get the most basic living security.
From the name of the movie, we already know that the overall trend of the story is nothing more than the inspirational content that fights back from hardship and obtains success. However, even with such a cliché story, "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" still received a high score of 9.1, and most people love this work not only because of Will Smith, but more in the movie There are too many shadows of us in the character Chris.

Under the social background in the film, there are many fierce social contradictions and conflicts. These social problems are external causes. Therefore, the film avoids using the social background as a rendering point of suffering, and then focuses all on Chris The presentation of the state of life and mental state.
I think that Chris in the movie is an idealized character. When he is placed in reality, the movie is also invisible, conveying the concept of facing the sordidness of life, and then , From these filth, blaze a path of its own, even though the road is very narrow.

Therefore, aside from the inspirational content of the story, this movie has another potential theme, that is, trying to break the shackles of class, and hit hard with the numbness that prevails in life and the so-called "elite culture", thus Taking a low-level person as a symbol of struggle and shaping it three-dimensionally, this kind of shaping has just created a kind of "popular culture."
This kind of "popular culture" is not only pure material satisfaction, but also spiritual filling.

Chris’s wife left him because of poverty. He could only take his son to live in an apartment. He had no money to pay the rent and could only move to a cheaper one.Car 🔍The hotel, in the end, was driven out because of arrears, and went to the toilet, and even had to rob a homeless man in a public residence.
Maybe, in order to be able to express inspiration in the movie, this part of the portrayal is somewhat deliberate. Fortunately, Will Smith’s acting online can capture the emotional pain points of the audience and allow people to find the past in these difficult displays of life. Yourself.

The scene that impressed me was that after Chris finally changed from an intern to a full-time worker, he jumped down the steps of the building and applauded himself in the hurried crowd.
This picture instantly dissipated the depression that I had accumulated before. This is a material and spiritual victory at the same time, and it is also a mockery of the indestructible "elite culture".

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The name of the movie is called "When happiness comes knocking on the door." I personally feel that the word "knock" is used well.
Imagine that when life's misery comes ruthlessly, it will not be knocked, but bumped. It smashed your head with blood, smashed you with bruises and bruises, and slammed you into completely surrendering to the shackles of this already solidified class. In the end, both materially and spiritually, you became a numb.

This movie uses the word "knock" to reinterpret happiness.
Treat life tenderly, treat life hard, life kisses me bitterly, I also want to treat it with a smile, because no matter good or bad, it is life, why not choose a good attitude towards life, "knock" means politeness, happiness must be collected carefully .
Just like Chris, he does not have a high degree. When he proposed to apply for a stockbroker, he was ridiculed by his wife. He even thought of giving up because he had no money as an intern, but for the sake of living For the sake of his children, for his own unwillingness, he worked hard, and finally succeeded. Happiness came quietly in his efforts.

This movie uses the deeds of real characters to create a great "mortal dream" and also conveys the "popular culture" we urgently need, that is, working hard in ordinary life, letting material and spirit advance together Therefore, movies always use "popular culture" to beat "elite culture".
I finally know why Chris in the movie always keeps running.
Behind him, in addition to the material crisis of the family, there is also an inner spiritual crisis. In life, we often pay too much attention to the former and ignore the latter. In this way, we always have a sense of cowardice about gains and losses. Even under the constant suppression of society, we become numb and admit the constraints of existing social classes. This is actually shutting out happiness in disguise.

The story of "When Happiness Knocks at the Door" happened is a small probability event, and most people will live ordinary life, but ordinary does not mean mediocrity.
Chris in the movie has always been ordinary. However, he did not resign himself to depravity, nor did he forget his original intention of working hard. Therefore, his definition of happiness is very accurate and clear, which happened to remind me of that. The sentence-"Don't forget why you started because you went too far."
Chris’s success is a good combination of material and spiritual. I think that even if the company’s internship is not successful, he will still gain in other aspects, because the sense of family responsibility drives him to pursue material pursuits, and his heart Unwilling, let him maintain a high spirit.

This movie may be too idealistic, and the reality is far more cruel than the movie, but, at least let us know, in this terrible world, there are always people working silently, no matter how hard they are, no matter what they get. Success can never be replicated, and the understanding of happiness varies, but the spirit of maintaining hard work remains the same.
Chris is mixed with too many shadows of us, father + man + marginal people at the bottom, life is like a person drinking water, knowing the cold and warmth, only after experiencing it, can we truly feel all kinds of tastes, and can also understand success and happiness. All meaning.