I have come to realize from a certain video I have watch in my philosophy class about Friedrich Nietzsche and he philosophical teaching. I have decided to compare his teaching to the movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness" with the stars of, Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith. The movie I have noticed deals with the same concept of going through very hard struggles in life whether it be: Sickness, bad social life, home life, financial life, or just not just succeeding can turn out into happiness in someone's life. I relate this to Nietzsche because he was constantly battling sickness, and was always on the move to warmer climates to heal himself, but that was not the main battle had. He also was also dealing with Nihilism, for a quick definition of that it is simply: the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless. Now that I have given a quick summary of what I am comparing, let us go into more in-depth.
To begin I would like to talk about the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness." For my own opinion I consider this movie to be very inspirational in many ways. The plot consist of Chris Gardner's struggle with homelessness with his small child. His character is very wise and extremely intelligent, and when it comes to his son he is a great father figure with some extraordinary life guide lines for his son. An example is in a certain scene where he goes with his son to the basketball court. The son makes a shot, and then the father tells his son that he didn't turn out to be good at basketball, and that the same would be the case for him, so he shouldn't spend too much time practicing it. The son gets discouraged, drops the ball, and then starts to pack it into a plastic bag to take it away unused. The following is what the father then says: "Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something, not even me. Alright? You got a dream, you gotta protect it.