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英文经典电影赏析

英文经典电影赏析期末小论文

学期: 2013-2014-1

专业英语

年级 12 级

姓名魏旭超

学号 1223040222

人文与外国语学院英语系

Abstract

In this movie, Chris is a thoughtful person all the time, he is always thinks what the definition of happiness is and how the happiness he can pursuit. From the moment he meets the successful stockbroker, after his wife divorce with him, he is always thinking whether it is worthy of pursuing and struggling for his dream and happiness or not. Thinking makes him be distinctive and be ambitious, also it teaches him to cope with every suffering. In return, suffering offer him a good opportunity, it inspires him and excavate his potential strength. Chris tries his best to overcome every difficulty and to get through a series of sufferings. Meanwhile, he gains more things: the reason of insistence, the optimistic attitude, the ability of endurance. Nobody can imagine how he gets through the harsh period time. Taking care of his son, Christopher, having no place to live, facing with the great pressure of job, continuing to be a stockbroker and paying more thing for the dream than other colleagues, having a few money to support their life, Chris never breaks up and endures all sufferings. With his blood, toil, tears and sweat, Chris experiences and suffers more than others, it means he will grow and gain more than others. He becomes the only person who is employed by the company in the end and turns his dream to be true.

Key words: Chris; be a thoughtful person, suffering.

Contents

Abstract----------------------------------------------------------------i I. Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------------------4 II. You must be a thoughtful person before you want to be successful---------------------------------------------------------------5 2.1. Chris is a thoughtful man-----------------------------------------------------------------5 III. Sufferings inspire Chris and excavate his potential strength-----------------------------------------------------------------6 3.1. A lot of sufferings that Chris faces and gets through----------------------------------6 V. Conclusion----------------------------------------------------------7

The pursuit of happiness

I.Introduction

This movie, the pursuit of happiness, which depicts the story that Chris scrambles the position he pursues and dreams with his blood, toil, tears and sweat. Finally, he pursues his happiness and reaches his goal.

Selling medical instruments, making a bet for the job with all his money, Chris is a salesman. However, failure is accompanying with him, the job isn’t fine. Chris is in the edge of failure and poverty. Finally, his wife loses hope for him and abandons him, but he isn’t defeated by a series of failures. On the contrary, Chris finds a new way to pursuit the happiness for his faith which he has promised he must be responsible and successful father. With his insistence and intelligence, Chris grasps a good opportunity to enter a security company.

With patience and perseverance, Chris overcomes a series of difficulties and becomes the only person who is employed by the company from the lowest worker in the end. Chris reaches his aim and makes his dream be true.

Offering every drop of blood, toil, tears and sweat, Chris accumulates them up to turn them a sea of happiness. His story indicates that the ordinary challenge themselves, force themselves to go forward toward an active and optimistic attitude, and turn dream to be true. Meanwhile, the story bring us into a condition that we can’t help thinking about our lives, happiness, and dreams.

II.You must be a thoughtful person before you want to be successful.

2.1 Chris is a thoughtful man.

This movie tells us that you must be a thoughtful person before you reach your dream. Chris is the guy, he is always thinking what the definition of happiness is and how the happiness he can pursue.

Thinking makes him to be a successful person and helps him to open the door to the happiness. When he meets the wealthy stockbroker, he gets two questions for the stockbroker “what do you do? And how do you do it?” The man answers: “I am a stockbroker, to be a stockbroker you have to be good with numbers and good with people.” Looking others stockbroker, he is deep in thinking: they all looks so happy to him. Why couldn’t he look that? Afterward, he conceives the goal that he would be a stockbroker, so he insists it. Just imagine, he wouldn’t determine his idea to be a stockbroker and wouldn’t be successful if he is neither thinking the reason of the successful stockbroker nor contacting with the stockbroker. Failures, poverty, and tax, they all come one by one. After Chris knows that his wife took his son and left him alone, he starts thinking about Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence, the part of the light to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And he is thinking: How did Thomas Jefferson know to put the “pursuit”part in there, that maybe happiness is something that one can only pursue, and maybe one can actually never have it, no matter what. So he is thinking whether it is worthy of pursuing and struggling for his dream and his happiness or not. Actually, he makes a debate in his mind----let the happiness go or search it. After holding Jim’s call, he chooses to continue his way and pursue the happiness, so he still go to interview for the internships. It is because he is always thinking what the definition of happiness that he decides what and how he would pursue the happiness. Thinking makes Chris be patient, and gives him a sword to failure. Meanwhile, it encourages Chris to bring a

bright and love condition and future that he never experienced in his young for his son.

III.Sufferings inspire Chris and excavate his potential strength.

3.1. A lot of sufferings that Chris faces and gets through.

Suffering is a good opportunity, which makes the gold glint, or even turns a stone to the gold because it will inspire you and excavate your potential strength. Chris turns himself from a stone to gold, also gain the happiness with his blood, toil, tears and sweat. He tries his best to overcome every difficulty and to get through a series of sufferings. Meanwhile, he gains something: the reasons of insistence, the optimistic attitude, the ability of endurance. In order not to waste his time, he has to do his work in six hours what his colleagues do in nine hours, he was not hanging up the phone in between calls, he realizes that he gains another eight minutes a day if not hanging up the phone. He is also not drinking water, so he does not waste any time in the bathroom. With a smile, he still goes to work or meets his customers with his package even though he has no place to live. He bears every suffering, in return these sufferings exercise his will and mind. When Chris and his son named Christopher have no place to live and come to the subway station, Chris also be optimistic to his son, in order to comfort his son, he plays game with his son: “we get back to the ancient time through the time machine!”Christopher is so excited, they flee to the “cave”——a toilet. Hearing somebody knock the door, cuddling his son, the tears flows from Chris’s eyes, Chris be more hopeful. It is not for suffering, but for faith, he believes it is worthy of suffering he endures. He has no reason to give up on account of the happiness and his dignity. In order to have a sleep in the shelter, Chris tries his best to struggle for this opportunity, runs as quick as a puma, sometimes has to be violent, and stays up very late so that repair the medical instrument and read his book for the test. Chris never give up any drop of hope, in order to repair the medical instrument, he sells his blood for making money so that he can afford the device of the medical instrument. After repair the medical instrument, he turns on the light of the medical instrument, looks his sleepy son happily and hopefully. Latter, he sells the last medical instrument. So these sufferings make Chris steel himself, dig up his

potential strength, and cultivate a person who possesses a strong will and practical skills. With blood, toil, tears and sweat, Chris experiences and suffers more than others, it means he will grow and gain more than others. That’s why he is lucky to be the only one. In the end of the movie, after he knows he is employed, Chris bears tears, walks in the crowd, and he puts his hands over his head, then applauses for himself, also cheers for himself. This moment he is so confident, excited, and pride because he open the door to the happiness by himself and he do it. So, no pain, no gain, Chris’s story encourages us that you do not know or trust how perfect and strong you will be at all if you do not force yourself to move forward.

IV. Conclusion.

Maybe, everyone has different feelings after they watch the movie. However, I trust it brings us something common, it tells us what dream it is and how to make it true. The answer is that you must offer something for your dream, only your blood, toil, tears and sweat. You could not depend on others but yourself. The more you try, the luckier you will be. The most important is that one could not be addicted in imagining, one should do something meaningful to live one’s life. Blood, toil, tears and sweat are the key to the success. Actually, you transform yourself in this process that struggle for you dream, you transform yourself to be more strong, to learn how to handle your emotions, to learn how to cope with difficulties not just complain, endure sufferings and move forward toward an optimistic attitude. Chris’s story tells us one should challenge himself just depend on himself. And no matter how hard it is, just keep going because you only fail when you give up.

人文与外国语学院英语系 2013年12月22日星期日

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