Reading that reminded me of the movie Pursuit of Happyness - have you seen it? If you have, you know it is incredibly depressing through the entire thing - so much so that my husband YELLED at me for making him watch it, feeling he had been utterly misled! - up until the very end, when his effort is completely validated, as was the time we spent viewing it all. I'm praying for your soon success story.
Thank you both very much. Oddly enough I spent four years at a brokerage firm as computer support. As time went by my employers and I knew we were at polar opposition - they being confidence artists with other people’s money and me being a boy scout. Good guy gets kicked out because he knows too much. Had I been villainous I would have gotten a nice package out of it. But no.
What Will Smith’s character was striving for was, in real life, a path I was very happy to get away from. It was so stressful it induced Bell’s Palsy, a mysterious paralyzing of half my face. Talk about scary!(STROKE! STROKE!) The VA doctor immediately diagnosed it correctly and treatment got my Quasimodo face back to normal in three months. The bells!
You know when your parents said if you keep making that face it might freeze that way? It’s TRUE. Lesson: avoid excessive stress wherever possible. I thank God it hasn’t recurred in eight years.
As for Will, I think he’s a bit overdue for an Academy Award considering all the great roles he’s pulled off. He saved really dog movies on personality alone. It’s a shame that he’s being cast in deeply depressing stuff of late while he obviously shines best as what he is: a celebration of the best in all of us. Perhaps he needs to learn we can’t all be Laurence Olivier.