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

“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,

In the documentary Freakonomics, the basic theme follows the idea of breaking beyond the system, and what the system says that you are going to be. With a different documentary called Happy, happiness is explained by the way happiness is achieved; it says that happiness is based around love and a positive attitude. Together, the documentaries Happy and Freakonomics examine and prove the statement that your destiny is determined by you and what you perceive life. In the documentary Happy, the truth

The documentary Happy, directed by Roko Belic, shares a tale of HAPPY taking a journey across the swamps of Louisiana in search for what makes people happy. The emotion happiness is often difficult to perceive. To an extent, this tale correlates well with Mill’s Greatest Happiness Principle. This principle explains that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.” Examining the human characteristic of “happiness” and

happiness and in the story Cannery Row by John Steinbeck there are many different characters who… seem to have quirky personalities. While these characters do seem to live a tough life and don’t seem to have very much as far as money they are actually happy and content with their lives. The characters in Cannery Row don’t seem to be very prosperous even the characters, such as Doc and Lee Chong, who seem to have the most out of everyone else do not have much and don’t seem to fit the ideology of happiness

representations of what happened in Rwanda during that time but two of the most powerful are the Ghosts of Rwanda documentary which shows a true version of what really happened in Rwanda and the effects it had on the country and the world. The second powerful representation was Hotel Rwanda a film. Firstly, the setting in the film was very different to the setting in the documentary. The first scene in the film started with a black screen with the sound of a scratchy

The award-winning documentary Amy was directed by Asif Kapadia and was made in 2015. Kapadia “is known for his visually striking films exploring characters living in timeless, extreme and unforgiving landscapes.” ("Asif Kapadia" Biography. IMDb. February 26, 2016 .). In this film, Kapadia depicts the life, fame, and the tragic death of Amy Winehouse. Winehouse was a British singer who only creating two albums, became “one of the biggest music icons in British and jazz history. With a voice oft described

Minimalism: A Documentary about important things follows the journey of two novelists, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, determined to help people escape the crippling disease in society, consumerism. The idea of minimalism is to narrow down the material items one bring into their life to better your ability to realize what is truly important to you and what makes you happy. The documentary explores the human tendency to become dissatisfied with everything in our lives and expresses that

When flipping through the thousands of documentaries on the many streaming services there are three main criteria come to mind; one looks for the entertainment factor, credentials of the information the and lasting affect it leaves on the viewer. The documentary Soul Food Junkies directed and produced by the filmmaker Byron Hunt defiantly has an interesting take on these main criteria. The documentary holds ones attention with comedy and relatability with a family aspect, though interesting there’s

division of a once unified people is an all too familiar story told just across the ocean. Black in Latin America: Haiti and the Dominican Republic, a documentary on the history of both countries, offers an inside look into how one island faces geographical and social division as a result of early European colonization. Despite the faults, this documentary demonstrates the resilience of African descendent peoples in the face of adversity and is successful in illustrating the pride they feel for their