Didn't i see this on 60 minutes? boring!!!! - The Pursuit of Happyness Reviews

Look, I cannot say how admirable the real-life struggle unfolded for the father and son depicted in the film. I do not have a problem with Hollywood making a film about anyone's life-and-death struggle or from-rags-to-riches tale. But, the simple matter is: this film's theme was shoved down my throat from the beginning to the end. I didn't really want to see nothing but the "struggle" aspects for Will Smith's character and that of his son. The first one-third of the film depicting "the struggle" from rags-to-riches would have been enough. But...and this is where the director/writer/producer fell way short for my tastes: Why didn't we see more of the "post-struggle" "good times" for Smith's character and his son? That's what I wanted to see! I mean, at the VERY END of the film do we see Smith "getting his break -- dream job". What happened to the rest of the 20 years of his life? Oh, that's right, during the credits, a short paragraph regarding his life since the struggle. How quaint! But not a tad of film was devoted to the man's life thereafter. He DID have a wonderful life. I wanted to see more of the brokerage job events...how he made more sales, sold more stock and other financial instruments with success and failure therein; coupled with: did he get back with his wife? What happened to him after the struggle -- that's what is missing. I mean...to have devoted nothing but two hours of film showing SMith running from one bad scenario in the subway or boarding house with his son...trying to sell the rest of his entrepreneurial bone-density inventions...God! I got so tired of "the struggle" after only 30 minutes anyway...but then ... well, as I said, the whole film is about sleeping in the restrooms of the city's subway system...the homeless shelter...begging for food money, et cetera. Not that that is not an admirable endeavour to overcome...but, on film, for this viewer: how much of it is enough?