Movie Deconstruction

The Pursuit of Happyness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xcZTtlGweQ

The theme of this movie is even when life is at its worst you still have to keep going, for yourself and your children. This scene exemplifies this theme because it shows the main character losing everything. The only thing that he doesn't lose is his son. It shows his life struggles. In this trailer, he never stops trying to better his life. I believe that the theme is active because it never comes out and tells you what to think. Its a movie that wants you to take out of it what you want and make it your own.

Well one of the things that helps to reinforce my theme is the spacing. Throughout the trailer we can see that he doesn’t have much space anywhere. His home is small and towards the end when it seems he become homeless, him and his son are curled up in a corner. This shows us the limited about of space they have. The shape also reinforces my theme because their are a lot of shadows cast throughout this trailer. His face always seems to be more in shadow. This gives us a more somber mood or feeling. His life is going to shambles around him, so the shadows play apart in symbolism. Tension and Release play a part in this trailer as well. A lot of tension is built up as his life falls apart in front of us. It creates tension because we don’t know if he will be able to fix his life or not. Some of the tension is released when he meets the stock broker and starts taking the test to be hired. The clip is more active than didactic because they don’t tell you what to get out of the movie. They want you to get out of it what you want. Another thing that plays a part in this clip is the idea of contrast and affinity. The main character contrast people in this clip, but he is like others as well. You can tell that the people he lives around or surrounds him are lower class like himself, which would be an affinity to him. He is in contrast with the upper class people or the stock broker that is presented to us in the trailer. He wants to be just like the upper class people.