The Documentary ' Happy '

In Happy by Roko Belic (a 2011 documentary), “All I want is to be happy in life” was a reoccurring statement from the people in the film. A majority of people in today’s world agree with that statement. Everyone wants to be happy, but what truly defines happiness? The Happy documentary presents different things that make certain people happy, and what influences their feelings. The film does not only imply that direct message, but also paints a bigger picture for the audience. The bigger picture being: how ecology is the main factor behind people’s happiness. The director of this film combines real experiences from people around the world along with research from scientists to explain our simple emotion, happiness.

In society there are still differences in classes such as higher class, middle class, and lower class. In sociology, we observed a film called The Pursuit Happyness, where we witnessed the struggles a father went through to succeed. Chris Gardner, who was played by Will Smith, is living in his apartment with his wife and his son. Due to their struggles, the mother walks out on and leaves Chris struggling alone with his son. In the film Chris Gardner applies for an unpaid internship for a competitive stockbroker company where out of twenty men, only one gets the job. While he is on his internship, we see the hardships of getting kicked out of his apartment to staying at a shelter home to then sleeping in a subway bathroom with his son. Viewing the movie through a sociological lens, The Pursuit of Happyness will be analyzed according to the major three sociological paradigms: structural functionalism, social conflict theory, and symbolic interactionalism.

“The Happy Movie” is a very persuasive documentary that's full of storytelling and pathos. It seems like the director, Roko Belic, took Jay Heinrichs book and dulled down the intensity of his argument strategies. Happy uses over twenty of Jay’s argument tools all throughout the movie. The movie just goes into your heart and pulls on your heartstrings. This movie proves its point through stories from people with no money, people who has had loads of money, people who have suffered many tragedies, and different doctors in the field of the brain and happiness. He also uses multiple rhetorical strategies that are presented in “Thank You For Arguing” to prove his point that happiness is the best thing for everyone.

Although most of the material was that in the movie related to something we have learned previously in the course, it still offered new insight to certain aspects. One of the things I liked most about the documentary was as stated before was its ability to incorporate relatively everything we learned in the class. Such as having people from other documentaries, books and articles. Another thing I liked about the documentary was how despite reviewing a lot of material, it also gave real-life accounts of what was going on during that time. Overall the documentary sparked the interest in me to understanding more about how minorities, homosexuals, and hemophiliacs were treated before after and during the AIDS

I can’t say that I honestly enjoyed watching it, but then again that is not the point of a documentary such as this. This documentary, although not the most exciting to watch, forces you to constantly evaluate and consider the information being presented to you. There were times I would have to rewind just to give my thoughts a second to catch up, and in that sense, the film fully accomplished its goal. In discussing complicated ideas such as education, employment, and obedience it showed me just how narrow my scope of the world is, and I think I can better understand what the narrator meant and how he felt when he said: “almost everything I was brought up to believe turns out to be

Civil Rights is a very overwhelming event to explain. The way these men and women lived was absolutely terrible. The video explained events that I never knew existed, and provided an eye opening experience I will never forget. As a young white woman who grew up in the twenty first century, I have never had to face obstacles such as these men and women faced. When living in the United States freedom is the overall dream, but no one actually has complete freedom. I unfortunately have not had to opportunity to vote, so I cannot relate their experiences to mine. I do however understand the value of a human being. There is no “perfect” human in the world, just those who think they are.

What is Happiness? Well, In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (great book by the way), the people that lived in this dystopian world, called World State, had a motto/goal that they believed that it provided them happiness; “Community, Identity, and Stability.” Which basically meant that you have no individuality, so that your community has stability. In addition to that, all they did was have sex and drugs which made them oblivious to how their “perfect” society is not so perfect. They also scientifically altered how humans reproduced, so instead of being born from the womb, people were being “born” from tubes, and in those tubes, they prepare you for the job or role you will be forced to do for the rest of your life. The best part? They use

Madison Tracy Mrs. Smith and Mr. Evans Brave New World Essay 9 February 2015 Finding Happiness in Society There would be no happiness in a world based on stability. It would be nice for a while, but the lives of people would not be lived fully. The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is based out of a dystopian world that controls society in order to gain social stability. Social stability does not supply happiness.

The Brave New World depicts a society where happiness is completely necessary, and any other feelings are against the social norms. People take a drug called soma to stabilize a constant mood of happiness. Soma allows the people to feel nothing but the feeling of happiness at all times. In this society, human beings are factory made and mass-produced. The human beings are produced just as society wants them to, to conform to the views of this utopia.

This documentary is a form of Asian Canadian cultural activism. It explores how Asian Canadians represented their histories, experiences and identities through different forms, in par-ticular through film. Just like the documentary Shepherd’s Pie and Sushi by Mieko Ouchi, it is portraying the obstacles Asian Canadians had to endure yet at the same time doing it in such a way where younger generations would be fascinated to watch it and learn more. Another film, Double Happiness by Mina Shum depicts the life of an Asian Canadian family and the future the main character wishes to have but the obstacles of her ethnicity stands in the way. This film has a comedic effect to it which pulls the viewer’s attention. These three films possess a dual

I think the most educational part of this documentary was when Steven Fry spoke to others who have manic depression that he would not have guessed had the disorder. Robbie Williams for example, a very popular performer talked about his extremely low lows dealing with the depression part of bipolar disorder. A majority of people would not have been able to recognize that Robbie was very depressed because he did not show it all the time. He was a performer,

For a few years I did not have a happy place. I was big, lazy, and I didn't care about anyone or anything. I would sit down on my computer for hours endlessly looking at the screen. My eyes tender from staring at the computer screen. It wasn't until summer of 2016 that I realised that I needed to change. I started just working out outside running walking out of my house rushed with the scent of grass. Then when school started one of my friends recommended getting a gym membership. I had the idea running through my head for quite sometime figuring how useful it would be to me. So I looked into a few places, vigorously searching for a resolution. However, I did not motivate myself enough to keep going so I just quit.

This documentary, like the others, were eye opening and very sad. The video gave a lot of insight into the experiences of individuals struggling with eating disorders and I gained a lot information that will help me as a social worker as well. The signs and symptoms described in the DSM were clearly depicted in the documentary.

The Pursuit of Happyness is a critically acclaimed and multi award winning film directed by Gabriele Muccino. The movie was adapted by the New York Times best-selling book also called The Pursuit of Happyness written by Chris Gardner. The film reflects on the struggles that Chris had to face when he was an intern at a stock brokerage firm and had to provide for his son. The film deals with many major issues such as poverty, discrimination, struggle and homelessness.

The second time i thought there was emotion is when a guy in the documentary was with raising elephants in Africa and he slept with them feed them and played with them and when he raised them for a long time he released them into the wild to be with the other wild animals.He once rescued a baby elephant from the wild and saved the elephant life and when the elephants grew up he let him go to the wild.One day the man went to see the grown elephants and they recognized him and the never forgot about him because elephants have long term memory.