One day, I saw that familiar movie - "When Happiness Comes Knocking" on the Internet. Maybe it was because I hadn't entered society yet, and I only felt moved by this movie when I watched it in college. When I unintentionally saw this movie again after graduation, I was overwhelmed with emotion.
So I decided to record my feelings, just to share with you (feed chicken soup), relive the moving.
When Happiness Comes Knocking
The movie opens with people rushing to work in the morning. In the crowd there are roadside sellers, beggars, those who look down at the newspaper, and those who look at their watches from time to time. Their **** same point is what the movie is trying to express, and has long paved the way for the ending: no matter how hard it was before, when you work hard for your dream, happiness will come knocking on the door.
The movie begins with the main character, Chris Gardner, and his child, Christopher. Chris sends his child to school early in the morning, and then starts his daily routine with a "handheld bone density scanner", a medical device that has been deemed useless by doctors. But the device has always been considered useless and expensive by doctors.
Chris was walking down the street as usual when he saw a man in a suit and tie parking a luxury car under a building, and out of curiosity, he asked, "What do you do? What do you do?" . The guy replies to him, "I'm a stockbroker, as long as you're good with numbers and know how to handle people. The narrator says, "I remember that moment when they all looked super happy, so why can't I look happy too?" . From that moment on, the plot turned like a gear. Chris yearned for a happy life like never before.
When Chris tells his wife that he's going to get a job as a stockbroker, his wife immediately expresses her attitude, "Stockbroker? Why not an astronaut?" Like most people, when you want to go for a challenge, the first people to object are almost always your loved ones.
Chris said he wanted to bring happiness to his family, for his wife and for his children. Later Chris stood downstairs on the main floor and looked at the notice posted outside the door: broker internship training now accepting applications. He looks both nervous and excited. In order to look presentable, he entrusted his medical equipment to a girl selling on the roadside. When he got the application form, he realized that the girl had run away with the equipment, and Chris ran down to chase after her, but he couldn't catch her, so he had no choice but to give up.
Chris looks at the application form and realizes that the company only hires 20 people every six months, and only one is hired.
Chris's wife left the house with their child Christopher because she couldn't take the poverty anymore. Later Chris receives a call for an interview, but he looks particularly forlorn because of his family's departure. Early the next morning, when Chris is painting the walls at home, two policemen come to his house, and because he has not paid his taxes on time, he is temporarily detained at the police station, but he has to go to the interview the next morning.
So the next day he ran out of the police station all the way to the office, pudgy and covered in paint. Of course the interviewer's first impression was bad, and the highest level of education was high school, but his elaboration was brilliant: if you ask a question I don't know the answer to then I'll just tell you that I don't know, but I assure you I know how to find the answer, and I'm going to find out.
The reality is that many people are like this and have had similar interview experiences. But I just want to say, things are in people, some companies look at the strength, some companies look at the education, but only you know, you have a degree but you do not necessarily have the ability, you have the ability but limited by the education.
The beginning and the end of a person's life are the same, but the process is a million different. If it were me, I wouldn't have the courage to go to a job interview dressed as a whitewasher, Chris does, and that's what makes him better than me.
However, when Chris interviewed he hesitated because he didn't realize how hard it would be for him to live without a paycheck during his six-month internship. His only source of livelihood was the six remaining medical instruments that were hard to sell.
When a man is at his lowest point, he has no support from his family and friends, but he can't retreat because he knows that he has to hold on to even a grain of rice.
In the end, Chris chose to be a stockbroker's intern and moved out of his apartment into a motel that was half the price. The other day Chris took his kid to a basketball game, and the kid said he dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player. But Chris said he didn't want him to play all day. But after seeing the kid's disappointment, Chris made a decision to support the kid and let him be a person with a dream.
Chris said, "No one can say you can't make it, not even me, if you have a dream, you have to defend it." In China, more children are controlled by adults, who tell them that you should be a doctor in the future, you should be a teacher, you should be a civil servant, and don't think about what the child wants to do, and what kind of person they want to be. That's one thing I admire about Chris, he's not a success at this stage, but he's a good father who allows his child to have his own dreams.
In the movie, the kid Christopher tells a classic story.
One day a man was drowning in the water when a boat came by and asked him if he needed help. He replied, no thank you, God will save me. Then another boat came by and asked, do you need help? Again he replied. No, thank you, God will save me. Then he drowned and went to heaven. He asked, "God, why didn't you come to my rescue? God said, didn't I send two ships to save you? The meaning of this story is that when you are in trouble, don't give up any possibility that can help you break through. If you give up, don't blame God.
Later, Chris finally marketed a medical device, as if it were a key that gradually opened the door to his future success. That day was also the first day of Chris's six-month unpaid internship. Chris was busy making phone calls every day looking for customers, and after six months, the employee who helped the company get the most customers got the chance to stay.
Chris and his kids were kicked out of the motel because they couldn't afford the rent, and they had to spend the night in a subway restroom, and that's the bridge that got me the most emotional. When someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night, he was afraid of waking up his kids, and for the first time in his life, he shed tears.
Later, he and his child had to rush to the shelter to line up before five o'clock every day, so that he wouldn't have to live on the street. But one day there was still no line, and Chris had to sell his blood for money to live.
In that scene, Chris walks through the crowd, no longer down and out, no longer helpless, and he cries with happiness.
Chris is happy, what about you?
*** Vigorously.