Happy Documentary Analysis

One Important standard for living is being able to be happy. Happiness can be found in many different types of forms. It can be found with the purchasing of specific objects that can improve our living styles, it can be found with someone else that we communicate with, or it can be achieved by doing actions that we choose to do. The latter is the more imperative of the designs of happiness. Happiness is a thing that everyone is striving for. Rich, poor, young, or old, everyone wants to be happy. That may be easy for someone to get but hard for someone else. A lot of documentaries attempt to create an impression of and explain a subject that most people are interested in. One of the documentaries I watched that talk about and explain happiness …show more content…
The people in “Happy” gave some of the best responses and reactions when asked about their families, type of work, and happiness. For example, including the Indian rickshaw driver in this documentary gave it a big support to its argument that everyone can become happier. Manoj Singh the Indian rickshaw driver talked about how awful his way of making a living was and how tired he used to get at the end of the day from winter to summer. A quote that Manoj said caught my attention, “When I see my son waiting for my return and calls out to me ‘BABA’ I am full of joy, I feel that I am not poor, but I am the richest person” (Happy, 2011.) This quote got to the audiences emotions including me which is the whole point if using pathos in this documentary’s …show more content…
Roko Belic provided scientific facts and proofs that backed up his argument with solid data. As I mention before the documentary contains a lot of examples that made it more objective than subjective, such as the information and facts provide by the many psychology professors stating that Dopamine is necessary for feelings of pleasure and happiness. Also stating the facts and proofs behind Denmark being the happiest country on earth. Okinawa having hundred year old more than any other place in the world because of the lack of night life on the island which makes the people go to sleep early and stay healthy. Also the new field of science positive psychology which studies happiness who just flourished and got people’s attention and interest more than the eighties and the nineties. “It became the most popular class at Harvard, with thousands of kids showing up every week” (Happy, 2011.) All these examples backed up and supported Belic’s argument being