Pursuit of Happiness to Homeless

[Canadian_NewDemocrat]

I just heard about this whole thing the other night on The Colbert Report, of course Stephen Colbert was making the whole thing in character. I, for one, found it somewhat distressing...anyways...so here's the deal

some group in New York City (dont know the name or full details) had an open, free movie night for homeless people. I imagine many of them came in to get out of the cold. They were shown the recently released Will Smith film "The Pursuit of Happiness" which is about a man who is in dire poverty, yet manages to get a job and climb the corporate ladder and become successful. I haven't seen the film, so I cant say if it's good or not, but I've heard mostly good reviews. I for one wasn't impressed by the theme, another 'american dream', trust corporations, dont ask for union benefits or state intervention to help alleviate poverty, etc. So, I didn't see it...

now, I find it a little distressing that they are showing this to homeless people in an attempt to 'inspire' them. Now, I dont want to get swarmed by 'american dream' supporters...I got some respect for the whole concenpt of the 'american dream', yet think the concept is a blatant free-market tactic used to get people in poverty to not demand workers rights, minimum wage etc..maybe as a Canadian, I see things differently with a different cultural mentality,...so I found it sort of distressing that they are showing homeless people this film...like "You are poor and it's your own damn fault!"

Anyone agree with me on this? Dont get me wrong, I think the individualistic and enterepreunural spirit is a good thing for the most part, i just think the laizzes-fare attitude taking to the extreme is harmful and overall counter-productive for a society.

But hey, I'm a Canadian Socialist...get my drift? anyone else disgusted by this?

[Deja Q]

1. The movie theater in my area spelled it as "The Pursuit of Happyness"

On both sides of the display, which required a crane to get somebody up there to change the letters. So it wasn't vandalism by some stranger, they hired a dipshit to do the wording.

As for the movie, get Carly Fiorina to review it. She'll just say "No American has a god-given right to a job." Karma paid her in kind, she got fired from HP (with a golden parachute after she gave golden showers to all the ex-workers (American, before they got shipped to India), no doubt...)

[Berry Cool]

2. Er..that's actually how the title was SUPPOSED to be spelled.

Why did someone get up there and change the letters? Too many complaints from people who told them it was "misspelled"?

They didn't "hire a dipshit to do the wording." That was how the book title was spelled and how the movie title was spelled.

My first name is spelled unusually too, but I'll be damned if anyone is going to "correct" it on me!

If I had worked at that theater and someone had told me to get up on the crane and change the sign, I'd have pointed to the damn movie posters before I went up and changed it.

Editing to clarify further: The title spelling comes from a misspelling on a sign outside the daycare center in which the child in the movie is enrolled. So, the spelling is intentional.

[Canadian_NewDemocrat]

3. uh

so no one has any comments on the actual topic I brought up?