The Pursuit of Happyness

Year: 2006

Director: Gabriele Muccino

Writer: Steve Conrad

Actors: Will Smith, Thandie Newton and Jaden Smith

Genre: Biography, Drama

Based on a true story of a man named Christopher Gardner. The film describes the troublesome everyday of Chris Gardner in San Francisco in the 80s, we see the shadow side of a country lacking the luxurious welfare state we have in Norway. The Pursuit of Happyness displays the American dream, and how it is a motivation for people to work towards it. It is a truly inspiring story of a man who is left with nothing, and tries to rise from the ashes with marginal opportunities. Constantly being set back, it seems impossible for Chris Gardner to reach his goal. The plot we find in the movie isn´t what typically applies for the average Norwegian, and thusly it is a real eye opener to the far different lifestyle in little Norway.

Internet manners

Many youth today spend the majority of their day in front of a computer screen, or in some other way browsing the interwebs. The increased amount of anonymity we find on the internet makes for a whole lot of opinions being shared, the one more ignorant than the other. People argue in a very different manner when they are protected by anonymity, thusly making the internet a hard place to have a proper debate. 

Of the comments we typically see below your average youtube video there are rarely any objective, and even more seldomly, comments worth reading. Simple exclaims like ”crap”, ”shit” and ”gay” are surprisingely enough the most common comments on all of youtube. These are nor objective or noteworthy, and still they are as frequent as the raindrops in Bergen.

I myself think it is a shame that the great opportunities the internet offer, are ”trolled” to death by the reckless 12-year-oldes that roam the endless streets of the World Wide Web. Im sick and tired of it.