Title: Capitalist Propaganda
Product review: There are only a few movies that I find so detestible that I can't finish watching. This was one of those. I hated the message that anyone has a chance to succeed in this society if he works hard enough. That message is an afront to everyone who doesn't make it, who is poor and remains poor. In the first place, nobody should have to go through what the hero of Pursuit went through. What are we doing? Creating a system in which one exceptional person "makes it" while the rest are just sludge to be plowed back under? The irony of this is that the real person this "true story" is based on had affirmative action going for him. But that wouldn't fit the message of this film that anyone who tries hard enough can succeed. A more honest treatment of this guy's true story would show the role of government intervention in giving people a foot-up.
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