Cinderella Man

I recently watched that film called Cinderella Man. It is quite an amazing film which is about a second chance story. James J. Braddock’s, a boxer from 1930’s America and his family’s surviving story during the period of the “great depression”.
In the film, the Braddock family is portrayed as a happy ordinary family. There are five family members, James J. Braddock and Mae Braddock, the mother and father who love each other, Jay, Howard and Rose, the kids. In early parts of the film they have enough financial income to live. However during the period of great depression, the family has difficult times in terms of financial conditions. James had a couple of injuries and his box career was going worse.
Obviously the father has to take of his family. He has to gain money to support his family’s needs. But in great depression, conditions are getting harder to live. James Braddock is working hard and shows sacrifice to protect his family. The mother, Mae Braddock is a classical type of a mother. She loves her children and simply she is responsible for their well being. Children are too young and they have not really complex roles in the family.
The idea of marriage is portrayed as a whole lifetime commitment. The members of the family support each other in any kind of bad situation. In Braddock family, children are seeing as the most valuable things in the family and parents do everything to provide them good life.
When the family tries to deal with their financial problems, an important event happened. Jay stole meat from the butcher not to go another relative’s home because of the bad conditions. Even in a situation like this James Braddock make his son to go and give back meat jay stole. This is a little anecdote to understand how interested the parents are about their children’s well-raising.
Despite all the bad conditions in this time, Braddock family can survive by being together. They do not even think about divorcing. I see this family as a perfectly ordinary and happy family. This is the key of the real happiness which is known from the beginning of the human history: a real, happy family.