Synopsis
“The Pursuit of Happiness” is a drama film based on a true story. It narrates the plot of a man called Christopher Gardner who invests all his savings in new bone density scanners without even realizing how useless and difficult they are to sell.
As a result of his financial instability, he loses pretty much everything: house, friends, well-being in general and even his wife who decides to go somewhere else for better opportunities of employment. Having no other choice but to live in the streets with his son, his situation escalates to another level of complexity.
Looking everywhere for a job with just a high school degree, he decides to focus on becoming a stockbroker in one of the most important insurance companies in the city. …show more content…
It involves physiological arousal, expressive behaviors and conscious experiences (Myers 2007). There are seven universal emotions: joy, anger, disgust, surprise, sadness, fear and contempt. All of them are innate, expressed in the same way, have distinctive neural networks and can be easily identified by looking mainly at a person’s mouth and eyebrows. (Provost 2016)
In the movie, all of the seven emotions were identified in the following scenarios:
• Joy: at the end of the movie when the main character got the job, he expressed intense happiness because he fulfilled his aim.
• Anger: the wife of the main character showed anger multiple times when she was verbally discussing with her husband. The financial situation and the multiple problems that the couple was experiencing changed her mind. Therefore, her anger caused her to leave her family behind to go somewhere else for better opportunities of employment.
• Disgust: when Christopher and his son were playing at home; the child burped accidentally and his father reacted with a face of disgust.
• Surprise: the child reacted with surprise when his father told him that they will go to a soccer match. He wasn’t expecting such a great new and he hadn’t had the opportunity to go …show more content…
In fact, psychology is what pushes us to search more thoroughly by questioning ourselves on why a person reacted a certain way, for example. Therefore, with a psychological point of view, our perception of things and people change. We learn to understand each other better and to be more open minded. This is why psychology is something important to be explored by everyone because it facilitates our social
“The Pursuit of Happiness” is a drama film based on a true story. It narrates the plot of a man called Christopher Gardner who invests all his savings in new bone density scanners without even realizing how useless and difficult they are to sell.
As a result of his financial instability, he loses pretty much everything: house, friends, well-being in general and even his wife who decides to go somewhere else for better opportunities of employment. Having no other choice but to live in the streets with his son, his situation escalates to another level of complexity.
Looking everywhere for a job with just a high school degree, he decides to focus on becoming a stockbroker in one of the most important insurance companies in the city. …show more content…
It involves physiological arousal, expressive behaviors and conscious experiences (Myers 2007). There are seven universal emotions: joy, anger, disgust, surprise, sadness, fear and contempt. All of them are innate, expressed in the same way, have distinctive neural networks and can be easily identified by looking mainly at a person’s mouth and eyebrows. (Provost 2016)
In the movie, all of the seven emotions were identified in the following scenarios:
• Joy: at the end of the movie when the main character got the job, he expressed intense happiness because he fulfilled his aim.
• Anger: the wife of the main character showed anger multiple times when she was verbally discussing with her husband. The financial situation and the multiple problems that the couple was experiencing changed her mind. Therefore, her anger caused her to leave her family behind to go somewhere else for better opportunities of employment.
• Disgust: when Christopher and his son were playing at home; the child burped accidentally and his father reacted with a face of disgust.
• Surprise: the child reacted with surprise when his father told him that they will go to a soccer match. He wasn’t expecting such a great new and he hadn’t had the opportunity to go …show more content…
In fact, psychology is what pushes us to search more thoroughly by questioning ourselves on why a person reacted a certain way, for example. Therefore, with a psychological point of view, our perception of things and people change. We learn to understand each other better and to be more open minded. This is why psychology is something important to be explored by everyone because it facilitates our social